Question about buying points:

Originally Posted by Arcanaville Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.

Nope. Can't do it. Zwill has said they're aware that people want it a lot, but that they won't implement it until they are absolutely sure it can't be exploited.

Edit: That said, maybe buy him one of those pre-paid Visa gift cards? That might work.

Well, I don't necessarily mean gifting points. If, for instance, I go to the "Buy Points" link from the Paragon Store, is there an option to "Pay with card on file" AND an option to a "One-time payment" with whatever I have on hand? How are supposedly Free players supposed to buy these points, anyway? Are they supposed to have a card on file that's just never used?

I don't think this will work. If you want to register a card on file but NOT subscribe to game time with it, then NCsoft try to validate the card by making a $0 withdrawal from the card. Thing is, banks around here don't allow that, it throws up an internal error in their systems, I get an SMS about a failed transaction and to NCsoft it looks like the card was denied. I was told up front that there's nothing they can do about this initial withdrawal, and the only way I was able to enter my own card was to let my subscription expire and then resubscribe, paying as I did this to FORCE NCsoft's systems to make a withdrawal greater than $0.

I was told I could subscribe to the game using PayPal, and I can, but hat means said PayPal account will be charged for subscription time. I can't list a PayPal account as the "card on file" because it's not a card and the option for it doesn't exist on the accounting site.

Trust me, I went back and forth with this for a whole damn week, and the best I got out of it was a workaround. I don't know to do this without actually charging myself for subscription the guy's not going to want and that I kind of don't want to pay for.

I would, but that won't work in this case. See, the guy is incredibly modest and he'll outright refuse something like this. The only way I've been able to buy game-related stuff for him is when I've already bought a game over, say, Steam and I have an extra copy I can't use, so we might as well. Convincing him to spend money on himself - even when it's my money - isn't really an option and is just awkward for both of us. Plus, the only thing he has is card that'll run into the same problem as mine, anyway.

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I guess my question should have been: How do Free players purchase points and do they need a card on file?

Originally Posted by Arcanaville Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.

I can? That would help. How DOES one buy points, actually? I've been subsisting on the unexpectedly high amount of points I got at I21 launch so I haven't bought any with real money. Can I do a one-off purchase with a card that doesn't stick around anywhere afterwards and doesn't have to be on file beforehand? That would be the ideal solution, I think.

Originally Posted by Arcanaville Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.

Yes you can do this, although you would need his master account login details to buy them for him (so that is the element of trust here).

You dont need to put a card (or even paypal) on file before hand... i have had friends pay a month sub for me here and there with their cards and also via paypal... and none of the time have the details stuck (because i unticked the "keep card on file option")

To buy points though, once you are logged into your NCSoft master account, click "City of Heroes" on the right hand side of the screen.. to take you to the CoX account page, and then you will see the option to "buy more points".

Once you click that link, you choose how many points you want to buy, click next and then you have several payment options...

I am in the UK and the options are as follows:

Credit Card
Credit Card on file
Paypal
Paysafecard
Worldpay

((Payment options may vary according to region though))

Originally Posted by Arcanaville Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.

I've been buying points on the NCsoft account management screen, and using Paypal, NOT the card attached to the account. The card attached to the account is my husband's and we budget closely on it, but my Paypal account is my own money so when I want to play, I use that.