Crysta expired

[RethDaron]

Ah, I hadn't read it that way, that makes more sense. I'm genuinely asking out of curiosity because it just never made sense to me to use Crysta.

All good. Hindsight is 20/20. I'm sure if OP knew it expired they wouldn't have bought it.

[HollowedDoll]

I was thinking Paypal was in the normal subscription options, I haven't needed to change mine in a long time. If it's not then I could see why someone would choose to use Paypal instead.

It isn't, at least it wasn't when I started playing, which wasn't all that long ago.

[Darkstride]

All good. Hindsight is 20/20. I'm sure if OP knew it expired they wouldn't have bought it.

Yeah. I mean how a person pays has literally no effect on me or anyone else so I don't really care aside from genuine curiosity. The fact that they purchased such a large amount and never used it was what really made me think "is there a good reason someone would do that?" lol.

[Sotaris]

How odd I have been using my Visa debit card for online purchases for nearly two decades. There are "not quite real debit cards" that banks offer which basically only provide cash withdrawals and in person purchases I think.

Same here. Maybe people using Electron cards or something. Aka children/teenager debit cards

[ACE135]

I can sympathize, the correct thing for Enix to do would have been to send an email a month earlier saying your Crysta will expire soon

In 2014 I got an email notification telling me that my Crysta will expire in one month.

Since ARR I'm just using direct debit with my debit card. I don't know if SE got rid of the notifications over the years or OP maybe just didn't notice the email?

[Wissp]

From the quoted post they use Crysta to use different payment methods to add towards a lump sum for later when they feel like playing. We can all say if we'd rather pay another way but OP had their reasons and only using a service SE offers - no real reason to probe them more than that.

IMO SE should make it more clear Crysta expires after 2 years. You have to do some digging to find that info.

As others have surmised, I use paypal to buy the Cryata.

Usually I have one account for fun and frivolous stuff for things like this. But if it happens to be a little low and I need to quickly pay for something game wise unexpectedly that it won't cover, I can just use a different linked account to buy the Crysta. Yes, despite my best efforts to keep that F&F account filled, sometimes an impulsive big purchase drains it a little TOO much. LOL

But you are not wrong that it IS a bit convoluted going though all those steps. Having one linked card would be considerably easier. But I have been doing it for four years now and am kind of used to it all, multiple steps and all. I actually wish more games would allow things like this, to use paypal to let you pay for your subscriptions and keep your financial data off of their servers.

[Ursa_Vonfiebryd]

Strangely enough, I used to buy everything with a dedicated card but suddenly Mog wouldn't accept any of my cards for cash shop payment. Eventually I emailed Customer Service and told them that if I couldn't at least use auto-pay for my sub, I couldn't use their product (I had the account set up for auto-pay already). So...apparently my dedicated card is good enough to charge my sub but still not good enough for cash shop purchases. I usually use paypal for crysta, which is a slightly annoying extra step but I only buy it when I want to make a purchase. Sorry for your loss, in any case.

[Inosaska]

Wait this is honestly news for me. I purchased Crysta back in 2013 and it has never expired so maybe the rules have changed from when I purchased it. The reason I still have some is because I don't have enough to use it on anything lol

[KazyEXE]

Isn't it illegal in most states for gift cards to expire within like 5 years?

[Moonlite]

Isn't it illegal in most states for gift cards to expire within like 5 years?

The link was for EU the people commenting about crysta seem to be mostly EU. I had very old crysta (NA account) and it worked. With the cash sop people with odd leftover amounts should be able to find something to use it on. It was a horrible system for customers, probably won't be the last.