Closed Pre-order Withheld

Hey. I'm new.

I finally decided to pre-order this game; it was on my radar a few months ago but fell off until recently, and now it seems almost ready for beta and hopefully will be on Steam (very important to me). I won't say the bird race was what first made me consider this game, but I do want to play an avian character.

After doing some more research and considering the pre-order tiers, I tried to buy a diamond-tier key. It isn't often I trust something enough to pre-order or kick in extra support, so don't let me down, Starbound.

I first tried PayPal. The account hadn't been used for a few years, I guess, and it was flagged for extra security despite having nothing retrievable in the account. To prove my identity, PayPal wanted a full bank account number, which sounds shady as all Hell, to an account that was merged into a different bank five years ago. Of course being back at the family estate for Thanksgiving, I don't have my old papers. In retrospect I should have just made another PayPal account, but instead I tried Amazon, which I've used to buy things more recently.

Unfortunately after confirming my payment, Amazon decided to flag my account for manual security review without explanation. So, I don't know if the internets will actually let me support this game. Did anyone have this experience with Amazon before? Will the purchase go through in 24 hours, and then I have to figure out how to input my NPC name and such?

 

Well, I got a phone call from someone working for Amazon to confirm the order, and it went through shortly thereafter. I could get my forum badge and all that. There is still the issue of not being able to indicate the gender/species your NPC name is intended for, but that can be addressed in another thread. The initial problem has been solved.