A recent "free to play" email got my attention and made me think about coming back to Ryzom. After finding out that the marketing people have redefined the common usage of "free to play", I thought that I'd sign back up for a month and see how Atys is doing these days and to see if any of my old guildies returned.
However, I was surprised to find that we're still limited to Bibit and PAYBYCASH.
Both of these services throw up fraud protection warnings with the credit card companies and I have to keep responding to calls to confirm that the charges are legitimate.
Is there any chance that you can add other payment options? 95% of online merchants offer Paypal. Google Checkout and BillMeLater are at around 33% and Amazon Payments is around 10%. Bibit and PAYBYCASH don't even show up on the stats.
If you really wanted to be "bleeding edge" you could allow payment by Bitcoin and then we'd have the option of converting real cash through whatever service we were most comfortable with.
However, I was surprised to find that we're still limited to Bibit and PAYBYCASH.
Both of these services throw up fraud protection warnings with the credit card companies and I have to keep responding to calls to confirm that the charges are legitimate.
Is there any chance that you can add other payment options? 95% of online merchants offer Paypal. Google Checkout and BillMeLater are at around 33% and Amazon Payments is around 10%. Bibit and PAYBYCASH don't even show up on the stats.
If you really wanted to be "bleeding edge" you could allow payment by Bitcoin and then we'd have the option of converting real cash through whatever service we were most comfortable with.