Reactivting a content ID on the 1st of the monthFollow

I just called SE. It seems the problem was with reactivating my account and transfering servers in the same month. The lady said just enter the card in when the server goes back up and it will be good.

The time frame is on the playonline website. It should be around 8am EST tomorrow morning. But the girl on the phone said it will be up today, but I don't know about that.

Ok, so I reactivated my account on April 1st, 12-1am EST. I did it at that time for this very reason; hoping I wouldn't get charged for all of March. If I'm charged for March (which I shouldn't), am I going to have to contact them to get my money back? That's complete BS if they do...

Edited, Apr 1st 2010 5:28pm by ViciousBoss

dark have you been able to get on yet?

Billing is where SE is, not where you are. You played for several hours in March.

Why are people so determined to try to game the system on this? The closed reg servers tell you exactly where the monthly cutoff is. Do it before the servers go down, and you played in the previous month. Do it after, and you played the following month. And, if you ask SE this (or read your service contract) then it's all laid out pretty clearly.

I know money is tight for some people. I absolutely get that. But, I can't help but think that if you're so tight on cash that you'll try so hard to avoid $13, then maybe in general you should be saving your cash for more important things than FFXI. This is the cost of a movie and popcorn, and if you want to play so badly why not just pay the cost of a two-hour movie to play for only a couple of days at the end of the month? And, if you don't want to play that badly, then you can certainly wait until servers are up on the 2nd.

It's a frivolous entertainment expense regardless, but I never see people thinking this hard about other entertainment purchases. Something about MMO billing just seems to put everyone in the mood of trying to exact every drop of value possible for their purchase. I can't tell if MMOs somehow have a less financially-independent player base than most videogames, or if MMO players are just the type to begrudge every penny spent for some reason.

For me, personally, even in months where I barely play, $13 seems like such good value for the time I put in that I feel like I'm getting a deal. I imagine for most players, the money spent on the game ends up being pennies an hour.

If you activate before the second of the month, then you activated the previous month, because activation becomes unavailable half an hour before the month ends. The reg server maintenance matches the end of the month exactly if you remember what time zone the billing is in.

There are even different server closures in each major region of the game, so that no one has to wonder whether it's the end of the month half a world away. It's not like someone in New York has to figure out what month it is in Abu Dhabi, just what month it is on the other side of the country.

It's clear that this still confuses some people, so perhaps SE should just take that half-an-hour overlap the maintenance already has, and extend it another two-and-a-half hours so that players on the east coast of the US aren't surprised when they fail to sneak in before the servers shut down.

The registration server is ******** up with my account this time too -_-. Just got disconnected and it says I have no content IDs. My card is valid, damnit! My sister's account (that's on my card because hers isn't Verified by Visa) is still up and running just fine.

What.

OMG efff you SE you charged me for 30 days and it was only 28 day month wtf!. I kid I kid, I played for "free" for most of this month, at least until my new CC arrives and I get that double bill tomorrow or thursday or friday (or whenever the hell 2-4 weeks is).