Friend_Bear
03-11-2004, 02:03 AM
A huge storm is brewing in the FFXI universe now and its all slowly starting to come into the light and could spark huge problems for Square-Enix even to a point of effecting its PS2 version, and thats a simple matter over cd-keys for the PC version of the game, pure and simple if you don't play your account for 3 months, Square-Enix *will* and I will repeat the *WILL* terminate your cd-key and all releverant code/information for the software you purchased making it literally *trash* to throw into the nearest bin because you could do nothing else with it. When I first purchased the game, If I knew about all this, I would have never got it in a million years.
All these was brought into the light earlier today, when someone from the forums I go to made a post that his log-in information was invalid, so he went to the support section which is still beta btw and after plenty of grief from them found out the reasons why, I'm not going to go into details why but even in the manual it states this, and I quote.
Page 11 Service and Fees
CAUTION! About your member information
" You're membership information is retained on the server for three months after your access to playonline is disabled should you decide to reactivate your playonline account and to use the playonline services again during this three-month period, simply log onto playonline and follow the intructions there. (very vague intructions at best) You wil be able to use the same account information that was registered at the time you unsubscribed from playonline. (This vaguely means your content IDS which you pay the subs for, however doesn't mean that your characters you created could be deleted at anytime)
After this three-month period has elapsed, you can no longer use your previous account information. You must create a new account to use playonline again. Please note that this means you must purchase a new copy of the software from a retailer and reregister for playonline. "
Needless to say, I never read or even noticed this part of the manual until I read about it earlier and I was shocked and extremely pissed at this attitude taken by Square, and because I cancelled my account for the game simply because the game is buggy very imbalanced, has racist people, has 6-10 hour "straight" quests to complete and its almost impossible to level beyond 40 I cancelled my account for the time being until a later date when hopefully they might have fixed all the problems, now i'm forced either to spend $14 every 2 months to just keep my 2 characters and stuff I collected in the hope for a better future for the game or just literally throw the game in the garbage next month, at least now I know why retailers will not take this game back for any reasons even if the game doesn't work at all on my system, I remember the clerk saying blah, blah, blah when I first got the game, at the time I was all hyped up about it to listen, a complete waste of $50
Now, here is where it gets tricky for PS2 owners, since it will have the same problems, if you don't play for 3 months you will lose $100, $50 for the game and $50 for the HD.
All these was brought into the light earlier today, when someone from the forums I go to made a post that his log-in information was invalid, so he went to the support section which is still beta btw and after plenty of grief from them found out the reasons why, I'm not going to go into details why but even in the manual it states this, and I quote.
Page 11 Service and Fees
CAUTION! About your member information
" You're membership information is retained on the server for three months after your access to playonline is disabled should you decide to reactivate your playonline account and to use the playonline services again during this three-month period, simply log onto playonline and follow the intructions there. (very vague intructions at best) You wil be able to use the same account information that was registered at the time you unsubscribed from playonline. (This vaguely means your content IDS which you pay the subs for, however doesn't mean that your characters you created could be deleted at anytime)
After this three-month period has elapsed, you can no longer use your previous account information. You must create a new account to use playonline again. Please note that this means you must purchase a new copy of the software from a retailer and reregister for playonline. "
Needless to say, I never read or even noticed this part of the manual until I read about it earlier and I was shocked and extremely pissed at this attitude taken by Square, and because I cancelled my account for the game simply because the game is buggy very imbalanced, has racist people, has 6-10 hour "straight" quests to complete and its almost impossible to level beyond 40 I cancelled my account for the time being until a later date when hopefully they might have fixed all the problems, now i'm forced either to spend $14 every 2 months to just keep my 2 characters and stuff I collected in the hope for a better future for the game or just literally throw the game in the garbage next month, at least now I know why retailers will not take this game back for any reasons even if the game doesn't work at all on my system, I remember the clerk saying blah, blah, blah when I first got the game, at the time I was all hyped up about it to listen, a complete waste of $50
Now, here is where it gets tricky for PS2 owners, since it will have the same problems, if you don't play for 3 months you will lose $100, $50 for the game and $50 for the HD.