EVE General Discussion

All I want is that when my current subscription period expires, I get an e-mail that reminds me I have to pay for a new period of game time. I do not want CCP to charge me automatically, which it has done this far. How do I turn auto renewal off? The only thing I found was the "cancel subscription" option which asked why I wanted to leave Eve. I don't want to leave Eve. I just don't want to let Eve to take my money without my knowledge and consent...

Write it down on a piece of paper and keep it next to your screen or put up a date in the ingame calendar. It's not that hard..

Yeah, buy GTC's or PLEX.

Without your knowledge or consent? Pretty sure both of those factors are fulfilled when you know its charging you and want to play.

Don't overthink it. Go ahead and pay with your credit card or whatever when it's time, then immediately cancel afterwards. I'm really not sure what the difference will be... but that'll work for you.

You don't lose out on what you already paid for by cancelling.

Note: Holy hell your avatar is ugly. Kill it with fire

When I add game time to my accounts I use something my bank provides called an "e-kort" (That's e-card in Swedish) where it's a small Java based application that displays a credit card on my screen, I enter my info, choose the amount of money I wanna put on it and hit the generate button and it creates a temporary card for me with a unique serial.
And when my sub runs out I get a mail saying "Subscription renewal failed etc..." and I simply fire the application up and renew without problem.
Contact your bank and see if they have something similar since it's very handy for online transactions, not to mention very secure.

This is one way to work around the auto billing since the temporary card will only have the funds for one transaction. I wonder what the IT people who look over transactions think when they see my payments. They must think I'm some kind of credit card thief or something haha.

There is an option under cancel sub, reason: cancelling autobilling. Just do it everytime you resub with real money. I'm sure lots of us do it and they aren't offended (but tbf I can understand them promoting recurring subs)

I do it quite a bit. I'm a college student and I don't have a regular income. It's either PLEX or sub and cancel right away.

Cancel your subscription, resubscribe, uncheck the "bill my account automatically" checkbox while subscribing. Now you've subbed for 1 month and will need to sub again at the end of the month.

When you signed up, you signed up for a renewing subscription, so you agreed for them to take it. What you need to do is cancel your subscription. It won;t actually cancel your gametime so you can keep playing until it finishes. Then when you have 6 days remaining or under 24 hours, they'll send you an email reminder. At that point you can log in and pay, making sure to not tick the box that tells them to charge automatically in the future. Op success.

Having a recurring subscription isn't taking money without consent. You should probably be able to remember when things like car payment, mortgage and eve subscription is being drafted out of your account. Time to put the big boy pants on and keep your mind on your money.