Hello, after many decades I know a lot of cases, when various databases were hacked and all user data leaked, including everything. like payment methods. Last time I bought something on GW2 was some time ago, when was no such mandatory, but today when I tried to buy stuff, I was forced to save payment method, after what I of course immediately wiped that info out.
Do you think your protection is insurmountable that you let yourself to save your customers ’payment methods? Descend to the ground, you can be hacked as anything else and all user data one day can be leaked... I'm software developer with 3 decades of experience, which is familiar with security. I don't think that this is right. Users should be able to buy without saving any such info on your system, while now you made it as MANDATORY, as elsewhere impossible to buy stuff on your store.
Plus, I'm European Union Citizen and regarding GDPR, I'm strongly against not only saving, but even exposing my such personal data to 3rd parties, like Arena.net. I don't want that it was saved on your servers even for nanosecond, as after the deletion it might be not deleted physically, but just marked as deleted and removed from db result sets. I'm good familiar with database design architectures and many years doing as well such databases, where we not delete data for real, but just marking as deleted. Possibility of saving data is exposing it to the 3rd party or Arena.Net, where I don't trust you that you seen my this data at all. So please, fix this, return possibility to buy stuff without exposing sensitive data to you.
No discussion. All answers or replies won't be read from my side. I just written my opinion.