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Funcom is a joke. Never play this game.
Knuckledust
Member Posts: 12
Hello guys,
I signed up on this site just to let others know about the absurdity that happened to me.
I started playin TSW on the 3 day headstart (preordered the game), and until 02.08 I had roughly 16 days of played time, meaning I dedicated alot of time to this game. Regardless, my financial situation is bad and I was not going to sub the game, and was just waiting for the 1 month free time to expire. They sent me an email on 02.08 reminding me to manually renew the game subscription for another month - I use Paypal. I thought to myself: I wish I could, nice little title etc, but no can do right now.
4 hours later, 15 EUR were billed on my Paypal account to Funcom WITHOUT my authorization whatsoever. They just took my data and BILLED me. I did not signed up for any form of automatic subscription or payment method, I didn't need to because I am an old AoC player (who has been disappointed with FC before, but this is much more aggravating).
I proceeded to contact FC via email, since their live chat is worthless, and was answered I could not get a refund because it was a Paypal transaction. I then proceeded to file a Paypal dispute, which obviously was solved in my favour. Result: I got my 15 EUR back - which I never inteded to give FC in the first place - AND HAD MY ACCOUNT BANNED. Yeah, Funcom permanently banned my account because I filed the Paypal claim.
Now I will not be able to play TSW unless I give them another 50 EUR which is obviously never going to happen. I then proceeded to file another Paypal dispute describing this situation and got my 50 EUR back, since I cannot use the product I paid for due to an arbitrary and unjustified decision of the seller.
This is my short story to you, as cool as the game might look, sooner or later it will become just another endless gear treadmill - literally. Endgame content resumes in 5 Dungeons you grind every 16h to get a currency named Bullion, which you use to buy Vendor gear and upgrade them from tier 10 to 10.4. This is endgame. The skill wheel is a good way to make you think you have possibilities, but in fact you are pigeonholed to DPS, healer or Tank role and there is very few skills that work for said roles. LFG is also based on your gear score, so fellow WoW players would feel like home.
Despite of this being just another generic game, I liked it and was intending to play it in the future, but looking from my perspective now, I am kinda thankful to Funcom for their incompetence which led me to receive my money back and take my girl to a fine dinner tonight, which ended up in sweet love.
Stay away from Funcom and don't be fooled by their marketing of this game. They are incompetent and this game is crap.
Best regards,
Knuckle
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I'm not trying to rag or offend you but it sounds like the series of events were of your own doing. As the previous replier stated, cancelling a subscription prior to the end date is your responsibility. Everyone agrees to those terms upon giving your billing information. Now, that doesn't completely explain everything you described but doing so would have ceased this "domino effect" from taking place.
Honestly, Funcom may have done you a favor. If you're having financial issues, the last thing you should be alotting money to is a video game. Concentrate on the priorities, friend.
Their website had no option for me to cancel. The only thing account-related was "upgrade to premium membership".
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eee... they are cancel option...i had play Age of conan and last week i have canceled my TsW sub
Yup. I'm looking at the cancelation button right now. It wasn't hidden either. Those who couldn't find it just didn't look hard enough and if you intended to cancel your account and just decided to quit searching and hope you weren't going to be charged... well... you had what was coming to you.
If you brought a subscription mmorpg then you admittedly signed up to to reoccurring payment system...Regardless, If funcom said previously that they wouldnt bill you then it must of been an accounting error and can be corrected if you are patient.
I have always found it to be quite good as long as you ask the right questions and not not vent at the CR as if it was there individual fault.Talk to paypal they might get your money back if they deem it legit.This is correct and its the proper procedure for most business. Welcome to the real world.
Great. so now if you want to play your fully funded, all is well in the land of nod.
So there are some underlying problems that your disgruntled with..Makes me wonder how you conducted yourself during your proceedings with customer support.
Thats not what you said in your first statement.Yet you quote " Liked the game and was intending to play it in the future".TSW - AoC - Aion - WOW - EVE - Fallen Earth - Co - Rift - || XNA C# Java Development
I hate to say this but when you entered your paypal you gave them permission and you got an email from paypal stating the fact you signed up for a recurring plan.
It is up to you to go to your papal account and delete the subscription from them, otherwise this will happen again.
this is not new your the 4th person in the past week to create this very same topic. You have to cancel the sub at the paypal site.
You should have gotten an email saying you agreed to the billing the minute you entered your paypal info. it is there in the email you got from paypal the second you did it. So I am calling user error in failing to read what you signed up for.
here is the email that paypal sent me after I Signed up with my account it is very precise. Check your email folder because this is what I got the second I entered my paypal account info.
Hello IIIIIIIIIs,
You've signed up for preapproved payments plan with Funcom SARL .
To view the details, log in on the PayPal homepage, go to your Profile, and click Preapproved Payments. Then click Funcom SARL:PA-*************.
Thanks,
PayPal
Please do not reply to this email. This mailbox is not monitored and you will not receive a response. For assistance, log in to your PayPal account and click the Help link in the top right corner of any PayPal page.
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I never received any such email, and every single time I logged into their website I made sure my payment info was deleted and there was no option to cancel the game. Instead it said "upgrade to premium membership".
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Log into the account page> On the left hand menu "Account" > "Manage Payment Options" > "Delete this payment option"
Easy. [mod edit]
TSW - AoC - Aion - WOW - EVE - Fallen Earth - Co - Rift - || XNA C# Java Development
Did that with the payment options and then went back to verify there were no payment options listed. There was never any "Cancel your account" option like in the screenshots above. And Funcom still billed me and acknowledged that they had billed me.
So I did everything right, and still got charged. Don't get why that's so hard for people to understand.
RELAX!@!! BREATHE!!!
Same thing happened when swtor came out....its nothing new.
TSW - AoC - Aion - WOW - EVE - Fallen Earth - Co - Rift - || XNA C# Java Development
I already explained that you have to go to the paypal account and delete that payment method, nothing you do at funcom is going to work until you delete the paypal side. The reason you see upgrade only is you already cleared for month to month.
Oh and another thing paypal send you an email for every transaction, so something dint sound right, you should have gotten an email stating payment had been made to funcom for x dollar amount. I been using paypal for 8 years and I have an email folder that has every transaction I ever made since day one. So something is wrong, or your emails are going to your junk folder.
It is not hard to understand Other folks have posted pictures, and told you were to look. I have to wonder if your the same fellow from last week who was moaning about this very topic.
Anyway if you do a charge-back your done with funcom, it is there policy to perma ban you for that.
Sorry you feel that way. My experience is genuine and awful. I wish I had not been stolen from by Funcom and I wish I had not had to go through this.
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That's what I always do--delete all billing information, as well. And if they insist you have some numbers in there, then make some up.
Apply lemon juice and candle flame here to reveal secret message.
I agree. I typically won't participate in a discussion like this because of those same reasons but someone may actually learn how to cancel their subscription by reading this post and save us all from another rant thread from developing.
Yuh, thanks for that, the option was not in there.
And...I'm done with Funcom. Permanently. Could care less what they think about me.
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Sad thing is we had this very topic in this very forum twice last week, and the same answers have been given out. All it is is somebody is angry that the got charged, but we should put the blame where it is
user comprehension, and user error.
This is not funcoms fault, somebody just either does not understand how to cancel a recurring billing from paypal or they don't want to understand.
I give little credit to the OP on this one. Any MMO I have ever subscribed to had to have an account created. They obviously had his billing info if they billed him and he willingly gave that up to FunCom. He violated the EULA and like most of those in this age of entitlement, he doesn't feel he should be liable for his own mistake and cried to PayPal. I would ban the acocunt too.
But, like in most of these posts, the OP posts and vanishes like a ninja while we are left to debate his mistake.
I have no idea who the OP is. I only have one account on this or any other forums.
Read back through the AOC forums, I wouldn't at all be surprised if you see some sketchy crap about Funcom's billing practices.
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