Square Enix Account Transfer Information Page(6/27/2011)

[Ksandra]

I cannot just pay normally with a credit card anymore?

Nope.

[Anso]

Aaaaaaaaaaaand I'm out.

Hope it was worth 3 characters and several mules SE. What a worthless company.

Enjoy your lives.

3 accounts, several mules, 3% surcharge... let's assume 50/month in fees? You're quitting over $1.50?

[Seraph]

So SE has a terrible year financially, and apparently decide one of the ways to deal with it would be to make it even more complicated for many of their customers to pay for one of their profitable services.

With that said, at the current stage, no matter what I do I have to give my financial information to a third party. How delightful. I wonder which of their high level management staff is getting kickbacks from B&C...

My mind is so full of fuck right now.

[Michelob]

You add Crysta to each SE Account separately; so if you have three SE IDs, you have to go through the process three times, once for each ID. That's my understanding of it, anyway.

God fucking damnit. I'd rather stab my eyes out.

I agree, I don't like this, it's very cynical for them to offer Crysta in amounts which don't match up nicely to how much you pay; it's a terribly cruel money-grab imo. All this has done is make me even more curious about GW2 and TERA, and lose (trust in/respect for/desire to give my money to) SE.

I agree completely.

[Michelob]

3 accounts, several mules, 3% surcharge... let's assume 50/month in fees? You're quitting over $1.50?

$1.50 extra per month and having to pay through some shady 3rd party company? You bet.

[Solace]

You add Crysta to each SE Account separately; so if you have three SE IDs, you have to go through the process three times, once for each ID. That's my understanding of it, anyway.



I agree, I don't like this, it's very cynical for them to offer Crysta in amounts which don't match up nicely to how much you pay; it's a terribly cruel money-grab imo. All this has done is make me even more curious about GW2 and TERA, and lose (trust in/respect for/desire to give my money to) SE.

GW2 cannot come out fast enough and its going to be F2P which will make it even easier to switch to.

[Firesped]

If all of this is to increase account security, how does allowing POL passwords to be changed from the SE account do that? doesn't that make it less secure? if a hacker got into your SE account, they could lock you out of the FFXI forever just by changing that password if you managed to the the account back. I always thought that having the second id and password which you don't type in made FFXI and pol more secure then any other game out there when you put it on a SE account. The token does help too.

[Byrthnoth]

This is a pretty dumb thing for SE to do, but I can see their motivation. Positive points for them:
* They reduce the necessary infrastructure. Now someone else deals with payments, or it's on the same plan as FFXIV.
* If you go the Crysta route and are lazy, they get paid in advance (earning interest on a hundred thousand "months" worth of advance payments is something, and the cost of the service they provide is negligible so they can essentially count it as profit instantly) and retain the right to ban you randomly and lock your Crysta in "I can never exchange this for anything" limbo.
* The price very marginally went up now that we're on a 30 day cycle instead of a monthly cycle.

What they're probably not considering:
* Some people that were halfassedly playing or using FFXI as AIM will doubtlessly not bother sorting through all this bullshit and resubscribing.

This may just be a strategy to boost apparent third quarter earnings with people overbuying Crysta so they don't have to mess with it for a while.

[Seraph]

If all of this is to increase account security, how does allowing POL passwords to be changed from the SE account do that? doesn't that make it less secure? if a hacker got into your SE account, they could lock you out of the FFXI forever just by changing that password if you managed to the the account back. I always thought that having the second id and password which you don't type in made FFXI and pol more secure then any other game out there when you put it on a SE account. The token does help too.

It's never about your security, it's always been about SE's security and profitability. They can make some additional money off of the Crysta points scam, and they don't have to deal with credit card bullshit since they are going through this third party company. I'm sure this all looked good on paper when it was proposed, but no one apparently bothered to think of how it would piss off the customer base, or maybe they did consider it since they are giving everyone who goes through all this shit a little trinket as a condolence prize.

[Dooom]

If all of this is to increase account security, how does allowing POL passwords to be changed from the SE account do that? doesn't that make it less secure?

I honestly believe them saying this is to do with "security" is a line to sell us and make the changes easier to stomach for some, when really it has nothing to do with security at all and is just a way for them to change payments for whatever ends.

[orson]

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/th...-way-no-thanks.

This is BS they need to fix it I'd suggest adding to this thread even the op isn't great.

[Saiken]

so heres my deal. When going to buy UGC points for crysta neither of my cards are accepted when directly paying thru the CC payment option. Also when paying thru paypal my contact information doesnt show my billing address that is indeed setup under my cards in paypal. anybody else ??? wtf is going on. . .


sorry forgot to add i was at the playspan website when tryign to buy the UGC cards.

[Ksandra]

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/th...-way-no-thanks.

This is BS they need to fix it I'd suggest adding to this thread even the op isn't great.

ya you'll see me bitching in there and korpg not having a clue, but I strongly recommend people keep posting here AND there (since SE reps read both).

Sadly though I don't think they'll change anything. We went through this with 14 and it seems absolutely nothing changed.

[Solace]

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/th...-way-no-thanks.

This is BS they need to fix it I'd suggest adding to this thread even the op isn't great.

Only problem is that thread has been hijacked by that Korpg tard. Guy is a fucking tool.

[Divinius]

Yeah, Korpg is shitting up that thread over there pretty good.... Still not sure if he's serious or just trolling.

[Michelob]

Anyone want to buy ~15k Alexandrite?!

[bungiefan]

Credit cards issued outside of Japan are not accepted.

That's what they say on the JP Account page.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/th...l=1#post155153

The guy that wrote the WebMoney guide says he was able to transfer to a local SE ID. I'm trying to find out if he had already linked before this though.

EDIT, Japanese text was glitching the page.

[orson]

Yeah, Korpg is shitting up that thread over there pretty good.... Still not sure if he's serious or just trolling.

Ya there's a lot of SE butt boys that can't believe SE does wrong so hard to know. Better to just ignore him and drown him out.

[Dooom]

Ya there's a lot of SE butt boys that can't believe SE does wrong so hard to know. Better to just ignore him and drown him out.

qft. Everyone complaining on here or in their LS or whatever should take the five minutes to post on the official forums to let SE know how stupid this is.

[Byrthnoth]

Anyone want to buy ~15k Alexandrite?!

Shit.... I do, how much?