Direct Mobile Payments (For Plats)
First of all, I know that this topic has come up many times, in DL, PL and AL forums and most of the time not much attention was given to those threads.
I'm not expecting mine to go all that noticed, but just to show the community that there is another person willing to type this out in account of getting a payment method directly from the phone in order to buy Platinum.
As I see, most of the players here in AL are basically teenagers and do not have access to credit cards. Hence which prevents them from enjoying those extra nice benefits that Platinum could offer them. But most of the teens nowadays have mobile phones. As MMORPGs, mostly target the teenage/young adult community, I think it's appropriate to have a system of payment where they do not have to hinder their parents about using their credit cards to buy Platinum. This will bring upon a negative impression about their kid on some parents, "what the heck is my child doing wasting money on a stupid online game?". Also, some children are just not comfortable with using their parents money in order to get the stuff we want. In which cases, we save up, we buy what we want. But how to do that if we don't have a method of buying it even though we have the resources?
Now some of you people might be thinking, "Why can't this kid go to a convenience store and get a Google Gift Card or itunes Card and redeem it?" - News flash people! Not everyone lives in countries where convenience stores at normal travelling distances sells Google Gift Cards. Many Asian countries do not retail them at all. Hence effectively giving us no way of paying for Plats, even though we have the money and want them.
I understand that certain problems may arise from this. Children using their parents phones to get Platinum by just ... I don't know? Texting "Plat 30" to some number? This, can actually have some problems as it gives ability to purchase Platinum without the knowledge of the parents using the parents' money.
However, I'm sure that there are many available solutions to this that STS can come up with. Also, I understand that a child stealing a parent's credit card number to use on an online transaction and sending a text from one of their phones to do an online transaction are understood on two different levels of wrong doings, (and it should be understood as that, stealing credit card numbers is definitely not the way to make your parents proud of you. Especially when it's their credit card) But all things considered, as I said before, there has to be some way to make this system actually work as many MMORPGs already do.
Thank you for reading. (If you read it all)
Please leave your opinion.
~MGirl.
