Direct Credit Card Payments Now Accepted! (01/26/2012)Follow

http://www.playonline.com/ff11us/index.shtml

Edited, Jan 26th 2012 4:32am by Szabo

Wtf they were thinking in the first place, I don't know....


Edited, Jan 26th 2012 5:30am by eldelphia

Does that mean we finally stop hearing all those complaints :D

Only took them six -ing months (or 16 months, if you take XIV into account)

Is this for all regions or was this announcement just for NAs?

So after all this **** and 'feedback' they are allowing us to do what we HAD been doing for ~9 years already, but took away, but now gave back?

/slow clap.

Just registered a second EU account, direct payment through CC, 6 diffirent credit card options, no extra requirements or 3Dsecure ********* Was done in under 2 minutes. Painless. Good job SE.

this is awesome.....if they didnt start moving backwards towards 05 ffxi. too little too late, if they did this from the get go i would have still been playing even with the return of the long arduous grind. as it stands they changed payment options it interrupted my playing and gave me enough time to see the changes they were implementing over the course of this change and frankly i dont like it and am glad my money ceased goin to support it.

which is unfortunate caused i liked the changes to the game that made it pick up and play friendly, now that they are goin backwards i dont feel so compelled to want to play anymore in fact reading the forums has just reinforced my resolve to never buy another SE game again due to their constant disrespect to their customers.

 

Translated for those that don't speak "SE".

Edited, Jan 26th 2012 7:28pm by Turin

My husband decided to reactivate tonight, and I attempted to change his account over to debit card. I received an error as well. Has anyone done this yet?

I just changed my SE Account over to direct CC payments, and yes there is a $.01 pre-authorization. I doubt it will even be charged. Even if they did, it's incredibly common practice and not sketchy at all. It's merely to make sure the account exists.

I noticed that the billing is done in El Segundo, CA. That means no banks will be charging international penalties, and I won't have fishy-looking charges from UK (which led to my card being temporarily locked last month until I authorized the charges).

One drawback that I did notice: You can only use one Credit Card per SE Account, so if you have multiple FFXI accounts tired to the same SE Account, you'll have to use the same card. I doubt that will affect many people though, and it could be circumnavigated by using Crysta and/or CnB for one of the FFXI accounts.

Edited, Jan 27th 2012 1:26pm by Chewzer