Planning to Subscribe

[NadgersFishtoaster]

I'm starting to lay down plans to subscribe now. I finally have my vanilla credit card and I estimate I'll be playing for three months.

If I subscribe for the three monthly rate how difficult will it be to cancel before the next 3 months is up?

Essentially how hard is it to cancel a subscription or to shift it from 3 months to 1 month plan?

I would prefer, for what it is worth, that the subscription is not a repeating payment. However I accept that I might not be able to avoid scheduling a repeating payment

My initial plan is buy the minimum $6.50 worth of points to test my card, in order to avoid disappointment, but if this works then a subscription is probably due in fairly short order.

[toaf]

im 95% sure there is a check box to make it auto pay. i might be mistaken, but thats on a paypal i think

[frznvimes]

Assuming it uses the same credit card billing system as everything else (I'm pretty certain it does, I'm p2p rather than vip so I can't guarantee it 100%) when you subscribe you pay up front for the length of your subscription, and then when the amount of time you've paid for has passed you're automatically billed for the next period of time. Canceling your subscription would just be a matter of logging onto your turbine account and clicking a cancel subscription button (you'd still get the amount of time you'd already been billed for). I'm pretty sure it would be set to be a repeating payment, but after you subscribe and pay you can cancel your subscription to keep your time while preventing automatic renewal.
Changing your subscription probably involves canceling it and then resubscribing, but that shouldn't carry any negative consequences (it should just kick in after the time you've already paid for is up).
What you can't do is get a refund for time you've already paid for.

[NadgersFishtoaster]

Assuming it uses the same credit card billing system as everything else (I'm pretty certain it does, I'm p2p rather than vip so I can't guarantee it 100%) when you subscribe you pay up front for the length of your subscription, and then when the amount of time you've paid for has passed you're automatically billed for the next period of time. Canceling your subscription would just be a matter of logging onto your turbine account and clicking a cancel subscription button (you'd still get the amount of time you'd already been billed for). I'm pretty sure it would be set to be a repeating payment, but after you subscribe and pay you can cancel your subscription to keep your time while preventing automatic renewal.
Changing your subscription probably involves canceling it and then resubscribing, but that shouldn't carry any negative consequences (it should just kick in after the time you've already paid for is up).
What you can't do is get a refund for time you've already paid for.

If that's the method then, in my humble opinion, it is far from ideal but I can work with it. I'll have to make a note in a calendar somewhere to cancel, especially if I decide to abandon the game.

Thanks for reporting on the cancellation situation too.

[learst]

What frznvimes said is correct.

When you subscribe to VIP, you pick a subscription plan: 1 month, 3 months or 6/12(?) months. Currently I'm on the special 6 month promo. After you make your selection and click yes, you're granted VIP access within few hours (less than 1 hour for me). I'm not sure how long this VIP access is granted while pending your credit card payment.

After that you're set for whichever subscription plan you chose, and it will be auto-renewed every 1/3/6/12 months. If you want to change your subscription, you don't have to cancel but can change it, and the new plan will take over after your current one lapses. If you want to cancel, just cancel it before your next auto-renewal date and your VIP access will be terminated when your current subscription finishes.

[Bahgs]

Concur with what has been stated above. I would also note that your bonus TP don't show immediately. It took about a week before my account was credited. Also, if you sign up with the intent of cancelling, don't cancel immediately after setting up your billing options. Give it a week or so (a few days would probably do) and then cancel.

When I went from VIP -> Premium it was a no fuss thing, fwiw.

[NadgersFishtoaster]

Currently I'm hesitating with regards to a subscription.

Essentially I would be getting it for the easy, short-term access to content, post Korthos Island and things like a shared bank. However I really only really have one character at the moment and so I might take sometime to get a second character started and off the island first.

I also sat down and wrote down the things I'd like to buy with turbine points and 32 point characters and veteran starting characters came up highest. Subscription, if I've interpreted it correctly, is a inefficient way to acquire those.

Ideally I'd get the subscription for times when I have a lot of time to play, judge my period of play properly and end the subscription under careful control so I avoid paying a unwanted repeat due to forgetfulness.

So I think I'm back to the drawing board again.

My adjusted plan is to work out the most efficient way to buy what I'm after with turbine points, go premium and once I've sufficient characters in play rethink subscription.

Thanks for people's feedback.

[gabriul]

You can subscribe and then cancel your subscription the very next day if that's what you want. You'll still get the time you payed for. Just thought I'd point that out.

[Sagittis]

I'm starting to lay down plans to subscribe now. I finally have my vanilla credit card and I estimate I'll be playing for three months.

If I subscribe for the three monthly rate how difficult will it be to cancel before the next 3 months is up?

Essentially how hard is it to cancel a subscription or to shift it from 3 months to 1 month plan?

I would prefer, for what it is worth, that the subscription is not a repeating payment. However I accept that I might not be able to avoid scheduling a repeating payment

My initial plan is buy the minimum $6.50 worth of points to test my card, in order to avoid disappointment, but if this works then a subscription is probably due in fairly short order.

Just buy a game card from gamestop! same thing and you dont need to worry about canceling.

[7-day_Trial_Monkey]

If that's the method then, in my humble opinion, it is far from ideal but I can work with it. I'll have to make a note in a calendar somewhere to cancel, especially if I decide to abandon the game.

Thanks for reporting on the cancellation situation too.

There's no reason to mark anything on the calendar.

1) Subscribe for however long you want.

2) 5 minutes later, cancel

You will now have your active subscription for however long you paid, and at the end it will not auto renew.

[NadgersFishtoaster]

Thanks to people for the extra information about cancelling.

I may yet subscribe but not yet because subscription really pays off once you have enough characters (or toons) that you can make proper use of it. I've even cooled off buying 32 point characters and veteran status directly via credit card because that smacks of actually seeking to avoid content and there paying for a game I don't actually like!

Instead I'm creating a range of new characters on differing servers to experiment with Rogue builds, last night I created Wurdler Fishtoaster (a Strength-based Halfling Rogue), and earn more turbine points.

I might also make a minimum purchase of turbine points to support this accumulation process.

32-point characters will be first target to buy with these turbine points.

[NadgersFishtoaster]

My vanilla credit card worked and I decided to make a minimal payment to make my account premium.

I'm starting to populate the other servers with an array of characters in order to experiment with differing builds and classes, thereby farming Favour in the process.

[Bahgs]

There's no reason to mark anything on the calendar.

1) Subscribe for however long you want.

2) 5 minutes later, cancel

You will now have your active subscription for however long you paid, and at the end it will not auto renew.
In theory this is how it should work. In the past, though, (not with Turbine) the company saw the near immediate cancellation and concluded it was a mistaken transaction and gave me no game time. I had to do the whole process all over again. Since then I always wait a day or two before cancelling, just to make sure.