Updates to North American Payments for FFXIV



Source: https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/news/detail/a52cb5b8a6f6507c1ba1053d0eafe1629ef41434

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39 thoughts on “Updates to North American Payments for FFXIV”

  1. As a person who had to find a work around for the visa debit option. I wish the voices of the community could be heard. This ask is WAY to big for neglecting the other problems the mog station is currently facing I'm all for developers getting paid, but Arkansas sales tax is very high. Now they want me to pay more for a game it was exceedingly difficult to pay for already. I fully understand no one is asking me to play or pay it's just frustrating that these kind of things slide. Honestly been having really big gripes with the gaming industry and this is another step in the direction of Sony and helldivers or even Microsoft and halo (or anything they have ever touched ie. blizzard products as of late). Mr. happy you and other content creators you can reach out to are unfortunately our only way of having these concerns voiced. Unless convinced most of them do not share the same concern and care you do seems kinda hopeless imo.

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  2. and then there are those people who's country did not exist in SQEX registration form when they created the account and were instructed by support to just put in a random US state.
    Add that to the fact that you cannot change your address 😉
    (and good luck finding the support e-mail from way back when. My case around 10y ago?!)

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  3. I'm a player from a US territory island…had to sign up to a state since the island wasn't registered as a location. So far no tax included. Hopefully it's not raised to the point I have to unsub 😱

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  4. Anyone else in Utah that was already paying sales tax for years on our subs? My wife and I have been, even as far back when we were playing FFXI, so I was confused on why this was news. Even on the Mog Station or the Online Store.

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  5. This game is money grab .. and they can't even take the time the voice all the character interactions in the game. Other games do it and they only charge a one-time purchase fee… This game's complete rip off

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  6. I think their service provider was registered somewhere overseas, so there was no sales tax. But when that VISA issue happened, they had to relocate their "branch" inside the US. Therefore, now they have to comply with US laws.

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  7. No more patience with anyone who tries to rationalise or even justify all these issues. Also,if you dont have issues,shut up about it. Nothin worse than being lost,starving,in the middle of nowhere and having someone say:"i had a bunch of granola bars and ate em all." Shut the eff up. What ails me is that after 10 years of spending thousands of dollars,making friends i can legit call family… now its like i'm forced to say goodbye. I am no stanger to Loss. My sister passed in december and my cat died last sunday. But to have my hand forced to say goodbye to MY game,MY world,MY friends..? Who is it i have to fight? SE? VISA/MASTERCARD? MY GOVERNMENT? Aint it hilarious that all the problems happening corelate with FFXIV implementing Xbox (Microsoft btw) support? Can anyone look into the Microsoft/Blizzard iceberg and tell me its not stinkin of fishy? From a personal level,i'm taking all this devastatingly for reasons mentionned. On a corporate level, this has all the makings of hostile takeover… with hints of "you will own nothing and be happy." I'm not "happy". Alot of us arent "happy" right now. Alot feel attacked.

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  8. Does this mean they are going to fix their atrocious payment system which seems to only work appropriately 30% of the time?

    Also this legally shouldnt make any difference if people are doing taxes appropriately, since you are supposed to pay "use tax" for anything you dont pay sales tax for

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  9. Inexcusable is the fact you CANNOT change your Country in the change of address form. Instead of them focusing on this issue their answer is to just create a new account. For me I would give up thousands of hours of playtime if I did that. Shame on you SE for ignoring glaring issues. Almost makes me want to just abandon the game altogether. I refuse to buy ANYTHING from the cash shop for sure as long as this issue exists. Also the Visa issue should have been reolved already. Whatever is the problem may be it proves SE doesn't have what it takes to keep going in the future. My hype this game dwindles more and more especially with some connection issues they've had over the years and these dDos attacks.

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  10. Thank you very much for bringing up the payment processor issue and region locking, even if this post was not about that… People have been trying to use customer service, trying to use the forums, even during the live letter I saw people trying to bring this up to the devs attention. The big content creators also bringing it up can only help bring this more into the light.

    Admittedly I don't really know how much this is honestly in the developers' hands, how much control over this Yoshi-P really has and how much this is due to higher ups in Square Enix.

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  11. Subscription doesn’t seem like a taxable item – digital items and services in general are not taxable there’s no physical item to apply tax to. This is like beyond weird. Maybe I’m just sensitive to this because of the state I work in and being intimate with our own tax laws from my job – weird to see on a Google that many other states actually do tax services and digitals

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  12. I'm going to Japan from France for a year in summer, since I'll keep my french bank account and mastercard, I'll have 0 issue with this, but I'll transfer my character to jp datacenter ofc. It's so silly to think I'll live and play in Japan for a year but still have a registered adress in France. I guess I'll be living in my parent's house for a year according to SE.

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