Exactly this is my issue as well and we are also forced to buy two months access instead of one, which is beyond bias and really poor.

Kind of illegal too saying we'd get free 30 days access and we do not.

I don't have one of those. Even if I did, they charge you a 15$ fee, and refund it later. If i went to the store and bought a prepaid visa, and used it to authorize this transaction I would get the greendot overdrawn because there wouldn't be any funds on it.

If it is declined because there isnt money on the card you can call them. They will manually add the card and activate your free 30 days. Also you cannot overdraft a greendot card. Thats the great thing about it.

begothprincessb14_ESO gets help in one post i've been trying to get support for four days this is beyond unfair and terrible.

jamesharv2005ub17_ESO wrote: »

begothprincessb14_ESO wrote: »

jamesharv2005ub17_ESO wrote: »

You do get 30 days free. There is a statement right on the preorder page that says a subscription is required.

How exactly do I get my 30 days free? I dont. I get a Buy one get one because i dont have a debit/credit card.

No they dont charge you for 30 days.

Yes they do. If you have a credit/debit card they put a 15$ charge on there that gets removed later. However if you dont have a credit card you have to activate a 15$ game card in order to get your 30 days free. so how am i not being charged for 30 days? Granted if I did have a credit card then the charge would be removed. BUT my issue is I dont. So in order for me to get my 15$, 30 days free I have to pay 15$ for a game card and use that as my sub method.

jamesharv2005ub17_ESO wrote: »

I hate to tell you this but gametime cards are not available yet.

Really!? That's even worse.

The odd thing is my account says I have 30 days game time remaining but I have never set up a sub, and I cant log in.

you can always do what im doing and just say *** this game.

Skylara wrote: »

Why are there no prepaid time cards at the retailers? I went to buy mine today and Gamestop said they've received NOTHING from zenimax? Why were the cards not released on april 4th so we wouldnt get this interruption in our play time? Im so disapointed right now about this...

its a blatent cash grab by Zenimax that might ultimately destroy Bethesda's reputation, they want everyone to be on credit card subscriptions feeding them money.

There is a lot of frustration on this matter but I think some of it comes from the fact that we have become accustom to the F2P mentality when it comes to MMOs. I recall WoW, EVE, early LOTRO and many others that started as subscription models requiring a credit card up front and pre-authorizing them.

This is not outrageous, just something many MMO players have not ever seen or not seen in a very long time.

All i want s to play out my 30 days which i paid 60 bucks for imo. Because a stable well made game i have yet to see. I realise its still early but untill I stop falling through the world by jumping on the spot its not worth signing up for any extra time i just know im not going to use.

If you can't add a CC or debit card to your account, contact support. They'll take care of it for you. Just make sure you let them know whether your ordered it through them or someone else. They will give you a 1 day code that you put in the prepaid section under billing when you try to redeem your activation key and this will allow you to use your free 30 days. Just make sure they give you the key, if they apply it themselves you still won't be able to add your key and you'll have to contact them again.

psychedelicpsycho wrote: »

Mopar63 wrote: »

There is a lot of frustration on this matter but I think some of it comes from the fact that we have become accustom to the F2P mentality when it comes to MMOs. I recall WoW, EVE, early LOTRO and many others that started as subscription models requiring a credit card up front and pre-authorizing them.

This is not outrageous, just something many MMO players have not ever seen or not seen in a very long time.

really? last time i checked if you spent the money and bought wow and they gave you a free trial you didnt have to enter in any addition information you just clicked a few times and played for however like the trial was for. and in this case its not even a free trial we bought this. it came as a part of the $80 imperial edition i bought. also why did they give us the pre release play time and a few day's after the release to play the game without entering in this information?

Yes last time you checked thats true for wow. But for the first 6 years of wow it was not true. Notice the words "started as subscription models requiring a credit card up front and pre-authorizing them."? Thats how it was with wow up till some time before Cata.

Daidoshi wrote: »

Arsenic_Touch wrote: »

If you can't add a CC or debit card to your account, contact support. They'll take care of it for you. Just make sure you let them know whether your ordered it through them or someone else. They will give you a 1 day code that you put in the prepaid section under billing when you try to redeem your activation key and this will allow you to use your free 30 days. Just make sure they give you the key, if they apply it themselves you still won't be able to add your key and you'll have to contact them again.

I sent them the mail explaining that problem, but all i got was completely mechanized and premade response explaining me how to do what i CAN'T do as i don't have a CC i can use for this. Do i have to ask them something specific? Do they even write the responses themselves?

That is what most of us are getting sadly, you have to keep at it i think to actually get somewhere. as i said i've been trying for four days, i had a mod message me earlier saying they were looking at my ticket and i'll receive a response soon, i've received nothing yet but i'm hopeful i guess.

That was three and a half hours ago, i'm not sure the waiting times at this time.

Mopar63 wrote: »

There is a lot of frustration on this matter but I think some of it comes from the fact that we have become accustom to the F2P mentality when it comes to MMOs. I recall WoW, EVE, early LOTRO and many others that started as subscription models requiring a credit card up front and pre-authorizing them.

This is not outrageous, just something many MMO players have not ever seen or not seen in a very long time.

That's not correct, LoTRO certainly didn't require a card or payment plan set up to start playing..
In fact when it launched LOTRO in the EU when run by Codies had a short free trial, after which you needed to buy the game itself which came with 30 days playtime.. once the 30 days were up you needed to sign upto a subscription plan, or buy a game card there was no 30 days pre-authorisation.

Out of many paid MMO's that I've played this is the first that has actually and categorically required a funded and set up subscription plan even prior to activating the 30 days inclusive gaming. While it hasn't affected me particularly I do think it's an uneccesary hurdle for some players and that ZOS have created a rod for their own back so to speak.

All MMO's (non F2P) obviously need a game account creating but some just go with the in box cd key for 30 days access, others like Rift either required you to set up a plan, or choose game card.. the thing is if you chose game card it just let you straight into the game and your 30 days (or 60 if you bought the CE) started counting down, at the end of which if you hadn't entered a game card code you'd be barred access.

It just all seems unecessary to me...