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Paypal and P2P games
williwaw87
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Is it possible to use Paypal to pay P2P games such as Warhammer Online and Lord of the Rings Online?
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I am not sure on those 2 but there are some taht allow paypal.
City of Heroes does.
Some allow it to be chaged to your phone as well, World of Warcraft.
You can go into any target, wallmart, office depot, office max etc etc and buy yourself a prepaid credit card if you are looking into alternative payment methods in P2P games. They work just as well as a real credit card.
Surprisingly few use paypal. I would thinkk that the increased use of paypal over the last 5 years would be seen as a opportunity for MMO developers. However, it may be that some behind the scenes Paypal fees make it less desirable ...I dunno.
Torrential: DAOC (Pendragon)
Awned: World of Warcraft (Lothar)
Torren: Warhammer Online (Praag)
Thanks. Any idea how to check whether I can pay Paypal or not?
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What fees are there?
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So besides City of Heros which take paypal? Is it all NC soft games?
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A very few does. Neocron 2 is one afaik.
maybe
It's better to lurk in forums and be thought a fool...than to endlessly "Quote" and remove all doubts.
Paypal charges the "vendor" transaction fees per transaction. I can't remember if it's a set ammount or a %.
Do you know how I can find out?
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About the fees? It should be on Paypal's site.
I meant whether a game would take Pay pal or not.
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D&D EU and LOTRO EU use paypal
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I was mainly talking about US games. I don't think I can play the EU version of LOTRO
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Well the one sure fire way I can think of is when you try to make a paid sub and don't see Paypal as a payment type they probably don't take it. Sure you might have wasted 5 minutes filling out the forums but you'd at least have the answer you're looking for.
http://www.paybycash.com
allow you to use paypal to pay for online games including Eve and Age of Conan (and others)
Thanks for the link! Is it free to use?
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You can use PayPal to pay for anything anywhere, including MMOs. PayPal has this feature called the "PayPal Plugin", which acts as a virtual Mastercard which can link to your PayPal funds if you want it to. Basically, what you do is you download the PayPal plugin off of their site (which you need to be logged in to do), set up the payment information (primary and secondary payment sources), then you can generate a "secure card", which is a virtual Mastercard with random numbers that link to your primary/secondary sources of payment. When you use the secure card for purchases, it doesn't act like PayPal is purchasing anything for you, but it acts as a Mastercard, and takes the funds, again, from your primary/secondary payment sources. You can also tell the secure card to have multiple purchases attached to it (for MMO cycles and what not), or if you want to only use it for a one-time thing. You can also generate as many secure cards as you want. So basically, you can use this feature anywhere that accepts Mastercard as a form of payment.
You can set the primary source of payment for PayPal, and the secondary one for PayPal again if you want (I can't remember if you can skip the secondary payment source thing altogether). It sounds tedious, but it works. I'm currently using it right now for FFXI (which doesn't accept PayPal). All of this also works completely through PayPal. You never have to work through a third-party at any given time. You can also close out the secure cards any time as well. Like for example, if you're subscribed to a MMO with a secure card, all you would have to do is go through your normal routine of canceling out of that particular MMO, then log on to PayPal, go to your PayPal plugin page, and check the box that says "close card", and then hit "OK". That one particular card can not be used agan at that point, and it stops any payments from going through on it. So if you have problems canceling a sub for a MMO, all you would have to do is close the card, and that's it.
One problem though is that the plugin doesn't work for Firefox. So far, Internet Explorer is the browser I have to use when I want to generate a secure card with the