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Ryugi dear, those are scary glasses on your avi. <3

Holy balls.

Wow, s**t.

That's kind of crazy.

Glad I didn't stay subbed o.O

That's nuts.

You know, now I'm glad DFO is a free MMO. If it wasn't, I could so see something like that happening considering how a**-backwards their paid content is.

Sad thing is, legally speaking they don't -have- to do anything. When you agree to be automatically billed, technically they can take the money out of your account multiple times as long as they credit your account. That way you're not being charged something for nothing. The only thing they can't do is take it out in one lump sum. But from what I saw, it was just multiple times of the monthly fees. We just got done discussing this very thing in Business Law I.

So if WAR wanted to be absolute bastards, they could just give you say 16 months that they didn't charge you after this. Or if they really wanted to be bastards, they could keep billing you, and if you ever quit, they couldn't deactivate your account for 16 months after the fact, and those months would be free. Automatic billing is a very sticky thing. Credit card companys, electric companys and the like will do a random 'purge' sometimes have have a 'computer glitch' that will double or triple a payment that they automatically draw out, just to get temporary revenue in. And as long as they credit your account, it's all good in the eyes of the court.

A dollar today, is better than a dollar tomorrow. So if they are sinking, it's a convenient way to get more money before they go.

They are glasses of MANLY POWER and facilitate MANLY COMBINING.

Well, there's a computer glitch for one or two people that double or triple the payment, and there's this. Which is affecting a lot of people. And taking out like 16 single month payments, would probably count as a lump sum.

Well, at least with an electric company, you're getting a couple of months of a utility free in return.

Not quite the same with, say, an MMO. Which sucks s**t.

Also, I think the contract is 15 dollars a month, which implies that you would only be charged ONCE a month, at fifteen dollars. Meaning that pre-emptive charging would, obviously, not hold any ground under scrutiny.

So they WOULD have to give you the money back on that basis, if I remember the terms of service correctly. Even if, theoretically, they didn't have to, they'd get a class action thrown on them so fast that it would ruin Mythic or their vendor completely.