So should be all the people asking PayPal for refunds where the developer/publisher should provide them (if he's willing to do so at all) and yet PayPal takes them so seriously that it gives in just to maintain a friendly image (instead of just saying "screw you, we just deliver the money, that you purchased crap is YOUR problem"). I think it would make them think if the majority of the contributors of a crowd funding campaign suddenly asked for a refund and explained that they want to execute the same transaction through a different service.

https://twitter.com/PayPalUK/with_replies

If this is to be believed, the funds have been unfrozen. No justification given though.

LOL. You're worried about the NSA, then you sign up for a UK-based service? That's horrifically ironic. The UK agencies have a way broader mandate, are widely known to collect more data, and have been doing it for years longer. Trying to preserve privacy by signing up for a UK service is laughable.


On-topic: I never leave money in PayPal. For me, it's just a convenient way to pay online without handing my cards out to all and sundry. I hope the devs have gotten the funds unfrozen. And next time, use Kickstarter or Amazon Payments or some service not know for this problem.

Oh i love it when there are technical issues with my payment. I no longer have a PayPal account. I am going to get a new one (mainly for gog)

PayPal definitely needs more competition, yep. They are getting away with things that they shouldn't, because they dominate their market. Competition is good for the customers.

I'm not sure if I feel sorry for Nyu Media though. After playing Eryi's Action, I'm getting Rash whenever I see them mentioned ...

This had to do with a large Indie GoGo (like Kickstarter) fund that the was combined donation of all donators. I'm not sure why Paypal doesn't feel that they are obliged to release the funds immediately (it's not theirs) but they're only offering half now and half after the project is complete.

Developers need all of it to complete the project (obviously).

So for a small guy fry who is just using it once in awhile to buy a digi game there shouldn't be much probs but you might not want to use Paypal for a large money projects.

And also, apparently, perhaps small guys buying Kickstaters and GoGos should also avoid Paypal.
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Ha ha! That was meant to be aggrivating! Another take on "I Wanna be The Guy"

Red Thread Games (Dreamfall Chapters) got hit by this PayPal policy too.

Looks as if PayPal noticed they were making themselves look like dicks:


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PayPal Has Released Yatagarasu AoC Funds!

I’m relieved to announce that today we received an email from PayPal's ‘Office of Executive Escalations’, advising us that they have released all reserve funds and removed all reserve settings from our account.

This comes as a HUGE relief for all involved in the development of Yatagarasu AoC, as the money raised by our contributors is vital to the game development and pursuing alternative arrangements at this timing would have been hugely problematic.

*THANK YOU* to everyone for the amazing outpouring of support on Twitter, NeoGAF, Shoryuken, and numerous gaming blogs! Your voices clearly played a part in motivating PayPal to resolve our problem and hopefully will help prevent other developers going through the same experience in future.

We are cracking on with preparing Yatagarasu AoC and the campaign perks for contributors, and will provide updates via the IndieGogo page and at Yatagarasu-FTG.com very soon!

Once again, THANK YOU!

Seon King
Founder, Nyu Media

I somewhat got that and yes it would be better if PayPal would support crowdfunding, I would have supported a lot more KS projects if they did.

I forsee that if PayPal doesn't stop this nonsense, the next crowd-sourcing effort will be to raise funds to sue them.

GOG and, of course many other sides too, should ban PayPal from there side and should use systems like UKASH, Paysafe, the austrian äquivalent and several identical payment options instead.
This would be more customer-friendly and it would hit Paypal.

Ironically, likely using PayPal for donations.
Not if enough stores follow suit.

Yes, but nothing can be done against those officially illegal acting "global players" without pain...

Paypal does the same for Dreamfall Chapters: http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2013/09/10/paypal-freezes-crowdfunding-money-for-kickstarter-hit-dreamfall-chapters/
But luckily most of their budget comes through Kickstarter.