So i bought the game today, thinking that I would use the 30 days free to try it out....if it was a quality game I would pay the $15 a month to keep playing, if not, well I'd only be out $30. But i guess this is not like other games where, when they say you have X number of days free they don't ask you to pay for your next 30 days first.....That really leads me to believe that this game just doesn't stack up to other space based sims, and I'm being milked for all the cash that they can be before I find out how good the game is.
Is there a way around this, I don't have a credit card, and have no desire to get one, nor do i really want to pay Cryptic any more money till i find out if this game is even worth the $30 i payed for it.
I have no doubt that this will be moved or more likely deleted, because it is in the wrong section, but because i refuse to pay more to use my 30 days free, I can't post in the right section.
So i bought the game today, thinking that I would use the 30 days free to try it out....if it was a quality game I would pay the $15 a month to keep playing, if not, well I'd only be out $30. But i guess this is not like other games where, when they say you have X number of days free they don't ask you to pay for your next 30 days first.....That really leads me to believe that this game just doesn't stack up to other space based sims, and I'm being milked for all the cash that they can be before I find out how good the game is.
Is there a way around this, I don't have a credit card, and have no desire to get one, nor do i really want to pay Cryptic any more money till i find out if this game is even worth the $30 i payed for it.
I have no doubt that this will be moved or more likely deleted, because it is in the wrong section, but because i refuse to pay more to use my 30 days free, I can't post in the right section.
You do require a subscription to access the free 30 days. If you add a card and a subscription you are not charged until the first 30 days has passed. If before the 30 days expires you deiced not to continue playing you can cancel your subscription and you will not be charged. Make sure to cancel the subscription, not just remove the payment method.
You can use a paypal account to instead of credit card or a game time card, but the game time card will allow XX amount of days plus the initial 30 days.
This is the typical situation for the pay to play MMO models. Many games like WOW and EQ1&2 require a subscription to be set up prior to getting access.
I believe another reason is to ensure that you are in deed a real person making the account. Helps get rid of gold spammers in such as they have to make a subscription before playing. But as the devs said, you are not charged anything before your 30 days are up, so you can cancel when ever you want with no charge during that 30 days.
So i bought the game today, thinking that I would use the 30 days free to try it out....if it was a quality game I would pay the $15 a month to keep playing, if not, well I'd only be out $30. But i guess this is not like other games where, when they say you have X number of days free they don't ask you to pay for your next 30 days first.....That really leads me to believe that this game just doesn't stack up to other space based sims, and I'm being milked for all the cash that they can be before I find out how good the game is.
Is there a way around this, I don't have a credit card, and have no desire to get one, nor do i really want to pay Cryptic any more money till i find out if this game is even worth the $30 i payed for it.
I have no doubt that this will be moved or more likely deleted, because it is in the wrong section, but because i refuse to pay more to use my 30 days free, I can't post in the right section.
You could try using a Star Trek Online Game Time Card. When it prompts for credit card just click on the Gamecard option. Then it will prompt you to enter the game time card key. No credit card required.
I remember sending a ticket to customer support to unlock my account, because i did not have the listed payment methods available, i wanted to go with time cards, but they weren´t available either at launch.
It seemed to me it worked, now that direct debit is available to pay, i´m using that, cause game time cards can be unreliable, sometimes your retailer runs out of them etc.
Yeah my first thought was to go with a time card but I can't seem to locate one locally, I'm going to try to put it on my wife's card but it is maxed out at the moment....she maxed it out buying this for me for my birthday:rolleyes:, that might work but I doubt it.
Yeah my first thought was to go with a time card but I can't seem to locate one locally, I'm going to try to put it on my wife's card but it is maxed out at the moment....she maxed it out buying this for me for my birthday:rolleyes:, that might work but I doubt it.
Just a word of warning, depending on your card there may be a $1 verification transaction. It will never complete (read: you never pay the $1) but I wouldn't want you to hit an overdraft limit or something icky.
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You do require a subscription to access the free 30 days. If you add a card and a subscription you are not charged until the first 30 days has passed. If before the 30 days expires you deiced not to continue playing you can cancel your subscription and you will not be charged. Make sure to cancel the subscription, not just remove the payment method.
You can use a paypal account to instead of credit card or a game time card, but the game time card will allow XX amount of days plus the initial 30 days.
This is the typical situation for the pay to play MMO models. Many games like WOW and EQ1&2 require a subscription to be set up prior to getting access.
You could try using a Star Trek Online Game Time Card. When it prompts for credit card just click on the Gamecard option. Then it will prompt you to enter the game time card key. No credit card required.
It seemed to me it worked, now that direct debit is available to pay, i´m using that, cause game time cards can be unreliable, sometimes your retailer runs out of them etc.