You are right, there are additional routes I could go down. However I think I've wasted enough for my time already.
In reguards to making me do it, no, nothing made me do it beyond their advertizing campaigns the knowledge that a few people I know play it, as well as my long familiarity with all the previous warcraft games. There is nothing, I simply wanted to try the product out, and as a result I've been disapointed. These companies need to learn that MMO's are not just about the software anymore, customer service is vital. Waiting 24 hours for an e-mail (which is what the auto reply stated), and then another 4 days is not on. I sent several others as well. So far nothing.
The first MMO game I played was Sony's Ever Quest II, that horrible experiance of their customer service put me off ever buying anything with a sony online label ever again. Combined with the fact that I forked out a little extra for "The Special" edition, which included things like pet dragons, special paintings and other in game content, which then turned out only to apply to a single character. I messed up, chosing the games default server which turned out to be american, not European, and spent about a week wondering why so few people where online. They where trying to tell me that there was a $50 charge just to move my character from one server to another, or that I could start another one and spend some extra cash on a new pet dragon and paints and stuff. I could have understood if I could sell the pet dragon to other characters, or create infinate charaters and sell them on, but I couldn't. There was no reason for it but money grabbing. I mean for heaven's sake, we are talking a digital model here, not a physical thing. It's one's and zero's not anything else!
Anywho, having gotten completely off subject here. Any sign that customer service is going to be ******* then I'm out of it right away. If WoW is so incompetitant that they can't accept payment details, I shudder to think what the state of their customer service is going to be like.
Quote: "The security check CAN'T be wrong for 1 service and not another. That check can only be done against the VISA server for obvious security reasons, all services both physical and web-based are against the same system.
So if it's rejected, it's rejected by VISA, not Blizzard. Worst case scenario is that the error message is misleading, and some other detail was wrong."
Even if the error message is inaccurate for some reason for another, it doesn't change that it was reporting this one thing being rejected. I typed in all the details at least five times, but I am well practiced with entering in my card data, I never store it with any online service, I always type it in there and then when I spend it. I know the numbers off by heart, heck I didn't even look at my card when I ordered todays shopping from tescos and it wasn't rejected at all.
No, I'm totally confident, that after 4 paranoid attempts, checking each damn number as I typed it in, that all the details on my end was 100% correct and accurate. My whole life pretty much takes place online, I'd be in real trouble if I couldn't type in my personal and bank details.
I lay upon my bed one bright clear night, and gazed upon the distant stars far above, then I thought... where the hell is my roof?
