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#1 Jun 06 2014 at 4:14 PM Rating: Good
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I just got this email. Looks like I'll have to start paying for points more directly...

UltimatePay wrote:
Ultimate Insider
June 6, 2014

UGC IS RETIRING!

After seven years of having fun helping gamers pay online for virtual
currency in their favorite games, Ultimate Game Card (UGC) will be
retiring later this year. Ultimate Game Cards are in the process of
being pulled from all retail stores and removed from online
resellers. Consumers will no longer be able to buy Ultimate Game
Cards after August 15th, 2014.

The last day to redeem your activated UGC codes will be September 30,
2014. So please remember to redeem your UGC codes before that date.

Related to the UGC product retirement, UltimatePoints (UPoints) will
also be shut down. The last day to redeem your UPoints will be
October 31, 2014.

Please note that some games might stop accepting Ultimate Game Cards
and UPoints before the retirement dates so be sure to redeem your
cards and points sooner rather than later! Click below for an updated
list of games accepting UGC!
<<snip for graphics and privacy policy and all that..>>


I'll just have to add my bank card to the account. ><

[Edit] Oh. UltimatePay says something a little different.

UltimatePay wrote:

PlaySpan
Important News! UltimatePoints are being discontinued

PlaySpan will be discontinuing UltimatePoints (Upoints) later this year. As part of our business focus, we have decided to terminate our own branded virtual currency and focus on enabling and supporting our merchants branded in-game currencies.

The last day to redeem your UPoints will be October 31, 2014.So please remember to redeem your UltimatePoints before that date.

In addition and related to our business focus, we will also be retiring Ultimate Game Card (UGC). For more info on the UGC retirement please go to www.ultimategamecard.com


Looks like cards and ultimatepoints are going bye bye. So you won't be able to buy cards anymore but you might be able to use the service like I have to buy crysta. So if you are just using ultimatepay cards, make sure you use them up this summer and change them to crysta! I hope people got paypal accounts or a debit card to pay for crysta with!

[Edit again] Called UltimatePay; tech told me that if you happen to have a card after the cut off, they will give you a full refund. But since I assume you bought those cards for FFXI..Well, turn them into crysta before then!

Edited, Jun 6th 2014 6:37pm by maryadavies
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#2 Jun 07 2014 at 5:00 AM Rating: Excellent
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So nothing about the Ultimate Pay service? I hope they at least keep that around. I've been using them because they took Discover card, and SE never did, and because I can add crysta manually instead of having an automatic charge. (I think they take Discover now, but I don't have much faith in SE processing card payments, with their long track record of fail.) My process is to manually buy two months worth of crysta every other month via UP.

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As part of our business focus, we have decided to terminate our own branded virtual currency and focus on enabling and supporting our merchants branded in-game currencies.
I guess this implies they'll be keeping the payment service.

Edited, Jun 7th 2014 7:02am by Elwynbelwyn
#3 Jun 07 2014 at 8:04 AM Rating: Good
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I think they're keeping the payment service and just killing their little currency, which was Ultimate Points. That's the impression I got from the tech.

Me, I'm sad to see it go since at one point, I was actually paying with the cards, but I'm using them directly now to pay for Crysta b/c they don't have nasty charges. I just hope no one that had trouble and had to use the cards gets mad now.
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