Quote Originally Posted by Dustytome View Post
They had an announcement a long time ago regarding the possibility of having your account punished for purchases made on 3rd party sites. People would buy up codes using stolen credit cards, sell them on ebay and then Square would be left dealing with the chargeback and a customer that thought their purchase was legit (or didn't care and just figured SE wouldn't bother). It's obviously continued so they needed to take further steps. As with others, I hope more items open back up to gifting. I'm sure they'll be looking at the feedback on this as well as the sales on items that are restricted from being gifted now.

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This one: [Important]Regarding the Fraudulent Purchase of Optional Items (Mar. 1)
All your telling me is that this move by Squeenix is a massive overreach.