This is really saddening for all those people who are a family playing the game and may not have more than the one credit card. I for one play the game with my wife and we have more than one card (all with same bank) and the comment above stating that you can't use one card on more than one account answers that bit. But why not my other cards with enough money?

I am tempted to talk to my bank today and see if they can check with Mastercard themselves because this is ridiculous.

On top of that, I tried the game.co.uk method and they cancelled the order (paid via paypal, waiting for response to see the why aspect).

My wife and I would normally get peeved enough to walk away from the game but for two reasons: 1) We have friends we got hooked on the game lately and 2) her account is now subbed for 3 months.

I really hope for all our sakes that our attempts to try different payment methods isn't shutting us down for 30 days.