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May 17 Season One Deadline, Paypal, Referrals & Fight Club

Season One Ends — Season Two Incoming

Season 1: The Birmingham Boys wraps at 00:00.

Monday will be a one-day off-season, then Season 2 kicks off Tuesday May 19th @ 00:00. Ensure you collect any rewards as they'll be lost otherwise.

PayPal Is Back

We've had numerous requests to bring PayPal back since we pulled it at launch. The original removal was driven by strict PayPal requirements that caused temporary downtime which we have now met, combined with our own push for stronger digital-payment security.

That's now resolved — PayPal is back, and it's staying as a permanent alternative payment option.

  • Available on Desktop and Mobile Browser only
  • Continues to honour the 10% off web pricing
  • App users continue with native IAP as before - you can switch to the mobile browser/desktop version at any time though

Fight Club Grace Period — Update

We've revisited the issues around the grace-period auto-filter in Fight Club. Early reports show significant improvements — protected players should no longer be appearing in target lists.

This is hopefully fully resolved, but we want to be sure. Keep reporting anything that looks off so we can either mark this as fully implemented or flag for another pass.

Referral Competition Payouts

Rewards will be paid out before 00:00 today.

Top 10 finishers — you'll receive an alert when they land, keep an eye out and appreciate the effort players have been doing to bring new players to The Fifth Family.

More to come soon.

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