Looking Forward: How Is Heavensward Launch going to handle Physical CE purchasers?

[Shane_Leonhart]

They did an early access thing for A Realm Reborn, in that you were able to play during the weekend before the game official release date, and the early access continued on though that same week so that you could play the game while your physical copy arrived so you could enter the registration code.

If Heavensward does something similar there won't be anything to worry about.

[Reignald]

They did an early access thing for A Realm Reborn, in that you were able to play during the weekend before the game official release date, and the early access continued on though that same week so that you could play the game while your physical copy arrived so you could enter the registration code.

The thing is every game works the same prelaunch, you get your preorder code and you get to play during headstart and then you have so much time to enter your code once you receive your game in the mail etc. Problem is most games, namely WoW, don't follow the same format for their expansions for some reason. It just gets annoying that to some degree the you get the short end of the stick if you want to buy a physical copy, doubly so if you want the collector's edition, when they could just send out preorder codes again and give you so much time to enter your retail key to continue playing.