Shadowlands: Physical CE contents vs. Digital Epic Edition Contents & Financial workings

[Beltloop-korialstrasz]

I want to purchase the EPIC EDITION, however I have been purchasing the PHYSICAL COLLECTORS EDITION since WotLK. – When BfA came out, Blizzard released a deal in which if you purchased any digital version and then a physical version, as long as you redeemed the code of the physical version before a certain date, the consumer was compensated for the difference via the online Blizzard account.

Is something similar going to be done for this expansion too? – I am delaying purchasing anything for Shadowlands until I hear an official release statement from Blizzard regarding this possible deal happening again as well as the contents of the PHYSICAL Collectors Edition vs the Digital versions.

[Jimmylee-bronzebeard (Jimmylee)]

That is indeed what is happening. A blue post was made in the general forums about it.

Upgrading Your Version of Shadowlands

To answer some questions in regards to the Collector’s Edition and its content: In the coming months, we will announce our retail-only Collector’s Edition to commemorate the release of Shadowlands, featuring everything in the Epic Edition, and more! – We have seen some questions about how upgrades will work for the different versions of Shadowlands. While the process is similar to the last expansion, we want to take a moment to clarify how upgrades will work for some of the most common situat…

[Beltloop-korialstrasz]

I honestly did not expect to see this information released yet…or at least in General Forum. Thank you sir. I a most grateful and you have been of great assistance.

[Felinae-amanthul]

Depending on where you are located, I just got contacted by my local games store to say they were cancelling my Shadowlands CE pre-order as they won’t be available in Australia.
I will look to see if I can order one through the Blizzard store to ship to Australia, but it may not be an option.

[Teufelgott-shadowsong (Teufelgott)]

@Felinae-amanthul

I will look to see if I can order one through the Blizzard store to ship to Australia, but it may not be an option.

You’d probably have better luck with another online retailer. Blizzard has never sold the physical collector’s editions directly.

[Jimmylee-bronzebeard (Jimmylee)]

@Teufelgott-shadowsong

@Felinae-amanthul

I will look to see if I can order one through the Blizzard store to ship to Australia, but it may not be an option.

You’d probably have better luck with another online retailer. Blizzard has never sold the physical collector’s editions directly.

I’m fairly certain I saw the BFA CE sold on the Gear Store before it got taken over by their current … yeah. I have nothing nice to say about who runs the store currently.

[Perl-anetheron (Perl)]

Just to try and help clear things up a little, they actually did sell BFA physical collectors edition in the gear store. I found an old post where I even had a link to it:

Collector's Edition / cost less?

I had trouble finding it in the Gear store, but here’s a link (so you don’t have to waste time looking). https://gear.blizzard.com/us/game/world-of-warcraft/world-of-warcraft-battle-for-azeroth-collector-s-edition

The link doesn’t go there anymore, but they did offer it at one point

[Mourningg-terokkar (Mourningg)]

Thanks… Sorry looks like I was the one mistaken. I have deleted the post as not to confuse things.