I bought a collector’s edition less than a month ago and paid $99.99 for it( plus tax). You folks credit my account for the upgrade of $49.99 I paid for digital regular copy. Now you guys are selling the collector’s edition for $69.99 ( 30% off / $30) and also giving credit for the regular edition.
What is up, should I have waited a few weeks and got it for $30 cheaper and the credit? That is sad for your dedicated Collector’s Edition collectors, you give us less, charge more and then sell it for less within a month.
The Digital Deluxe edition is not the same as the physical Collector’s Edition.
As for waiting and getting it cheaper, that is always the case with most items, not just Blizzard. But as for WoW, I have purchased all expansions for $50 (sometimes $70, with digital deluxe), only to see them rolled into the base game. Someone can start now for $60 and be caught up, while I have spent close to $500 just on the game/expansions alone.
This one does sting a little. To put the physical CE on sale so shortly after launch seems like horse-crap.
I paid $99.99 plus shipping for an exclusive, limited time item and now you guys are discounting it $30. Seems the early worm is just the first to get eaten in this analogy.
Usually it’s not a limited time item being sold by the company directly, that clearly wasn’t very limited if they have enough left in stock to discount for black friday sales.
Calling it a CE was a bit of stretch in this case, imo. Should of just called it the fancy box or something.
That is kind of how sales work, Yamaraja. We aren’t really able to announce when a sale might be coming up, though traditionally we do have them around this time. There will always be a cut off where someone may miss out on the discounted price because they bought it just before the sale goes live.
If there’s one thing people should’ve learned by the time they become adults, nothing, NOTHING is off-limits when it comes to this weekend. Black Friday all the way through Cyber Monday, nothing is sacred or protected.
Also, just because they have stock left, doesn’t mean they have very much. They also may have produced more, but held back in anticipation of this event. Planning is done well in advance.
What do you want here? They have always called it the Collector’s Edition (as does most games). And past CE’s have increased in value if they stay sealed (check out Ebay for the first two or three CE’s).
Sales are all well and good but having a sale on something touted as a “limited” and “collectable” kinda diminishes the limited collectible status of the item.
Also you guys have never offered the physical CE before this year so there was no precedent for a huge discount off of an item like this.
No, you opening the box diminished the collectible status. Also, using the game key did that, as well.
If you buy another (for the discounted price), and shelve it for 10 years, is someone buying it for 200-300 dollars really going to say “Hey, they had that sale that one year, so I’m paying less”? No one is going to know the difference.
With the Collector’s Edition we try to create enough so that those interested in purchasing them have the opportunity to. That works out differently depending on the launch, as we can’t predict exactly how many are needed and it isn’t generally good business sense to produce way more than you are likely to need. So with that in mind some expansions will see a shortage, and other times there may be copies left over.
That is usually the stock that is put on sale in most retail shops. While usually not publicly available, we can have some left over in our warehouses, that may not have been shipped out yet to retailers. It depends on what they order. So when we have extra, like now, it shouldn’t be out of the question that we may want to offer those to players, instead of just letting them sit and gather dust.
It would have been nice if Blizzard offered something for the ones that had already purchased the CE edition like a mount or something for showing their loyalty to Blizzard’s Warcraft Game.