Upcoming Billing Procedure question

[Seig345]

The thing is, they had to suspend billing at some point. They're shutting the servers down on Nov. 11th. Because billing cycles for the player base are all over the place, they're shutting down billing services a little over a month in advance so no one pays for time that extends past the final save date or past the server shutdown, because then they WOULD have to pro-rate individual players' time to ARR's launch.

This isn't a "Hey, we here at SE love you guys! Have a month on us!", it's the bi-product of making sure that even if you do have to pay for time into October, which sucks, at the very least you are still able to play and have access to the game and having your character data saved. Anyone with a billing end cycle of October 1st or later would be uncomfortably close to paying either for a day where none of your progress would be saved, or past the day the servers have been shut down.

[Shougun]

The thing is, they had to suspend billing at some point. They're shutting the servers down on Nov. 11th. Because billing cycles for the player base are all over the place, they're shutting down billing services a little over a month in advance so no one pays for time that extends past the final save date or past the server shutdown, because then they WOULD have to pro-rate individual players' time to ARR's launch.

This isn't a "Hey, we here at SE love you guys! Have a month on us!", it's the bi-product of making sure that even if you do have to pay for time into October, which sucks, at the very least you are still able to play and have access to the game and having your character data saved. Anyone with a billing end cycle of October 1st or later would be uncomfortably close to paying either for a day where none of your progress would be saved, or past the day the servers have been shut down.

"They had to stop bill pay at some point" is the gold I think.

Wish they let more of October be pay able as to be less misleading for Legacy - As some people got screwed right on September 30th or October 1st, which would technically take them to 30/31st.

Other then that, yes they have to stop bill pay at some point - and since there isnt a fixed cycle date for everyone, whatever day they choose someone is going to get less "free" days.

[Vogue]

Yes, I guess that is ok, but they could also just freeze the accounts on Oct 1st and people get the time they paid for back on 2.0, thing is, no idea how their billing system works and if this is possible at all.

I don't care about some people getting a free ride, I just don't like the idea of losing almost a complete paid month during the "free play" period.