Posts from Open alpha testing of the 5.0 HD mod (online lobby). Auto-translated

Are there any plans to introduce the possibility of paying with foreign cards?
P.S. If anyone can help with the payment, I am ready to symbolically reward them with the equivalent of 5 USD by transferring it to a bank account or on Stars.

Are there any specific cards required?

For the first method, through PayPal, any cards are suitable:
Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Discover, JCB, Diner's Club, EnRoute,
UnionPay, and others.

Even Chinese users don't have any problems. Moreover, there are no problems for all of Europe, the USA, Canada, Australia, Israel, Japan, and South Korea.

The only problem arose with a Vietnamese user. I was asked how to send money from Vietnam, but I have no idea and don't know what to answer...

For PP, for some reason, they need the home phone number of the cardholder's place of residence, which I don't have.
It's a regular debit card issued by ING Bank Śląski in Poland, which can be used to pay for purchases online and elsewhere around the world without any additional conditions or problems. Have you heard of such cards?

Today, I paid one of the lobby players from a Privatbank card – the payment went through to PayPal. Apparently, these were temporary payment issues.

The only thing is, the viewers wanted to thank Dan Choi and pay for another month of his subscription in advance, but when they clicked on the button, it said that he already has the "supporter" status. I understand that until the current status expires, it cannot be extended.

I'm not considering closing it down right now, but the statistics aren't great:
40% of those who subscribed in the first month didn't renew their subscription for the second month. Overall, there are 17% fewer subscribers in the second month than in the first. I don't know what to attribute it to – disappointment, summer, or the introduction of free joining. Most likely, it's a combination of all three. We'll see what happens next...

Actually, the reason might be different. Personally, I bought the premium status and didn't play a single game, then just forgot about it, and only now renewed it. So, those who didn't need to play didn't renew it. This can be solved by purchasing an annual subscription so that a person pays for a year and doesn't have to worry about it. This is clearly seen in the example of gyms. Probably many of us bought an annual membership, went for the first few months (days), and that's it. :D

Closing our eyes means deceiving ourselves the most: SOD is a dead game, HOTA has 10-15 times more players (check the HOTA and SOD lobbies), I can't understand how 90 percent of the tournaments in the HW forum are in SOD. It's coming to the point where we need to ask players what they prefer: HOTA or SOD. Everything is fine, SOD doesn't have much time left.)))

And how many of them are registered on HW, yeah.

Shutting our eyes means deceiving ourselves most of all : SOD is dead game , HOTA players is 10-15 times more (check lobby HOTA and lobby SOD), i cant undestand how 90 procent tournaments in HW forum are in SOD - coming time when need to ask players what they perfer : HOTA or SOD ,all is OK, SOD have not a lot time to life.)))

And how many of them are registered on the HOTA forums, yes.