Physical copies of Heavensward from SE Store

[Rhas]

I'm wondering when the physical copies are actually going to ship out. Considering the precise launch date is a week away now, and the Orders tab on the SE store has said Validated for over a week now. What's going on with that?

Mine shipped out already.

Scheduled For Early Delivery On:
Thursday, 06/18/2015, By End of Day

Departed - Hodgkins, IL, United States, Saturday, 06/13/2015

[Sakuraluna]

I'm on the east coast so mine will probably take longer. Still haven't received a shipping/tracking email. When you log into the SE store, does your order reflect shipment, too? Mine does not (yet). I have early access too, but early access "ends" on midnight June 26. If we don't have the full game code registered by then, idk what happens...

I'm on the east coast too and mine is still showing as "validated" and hasn't shipped yet. At least I haven't gotten any word yet that it's shipped out.

[Draxxion]

I've had no word on when mine will be shipping. Normally you would get an email on that. I have had no word.

[Estheim]

It's interesting to hear some us orders have gotten shipping confirmation. I'm in the UK and preordered mine the day it was put up (once the store worked haha ♥ ) and they took my money but it still says preordered and that's it. Nothing about delivery or anything. But hearing the early access code gives us until the 27th has eased my mind some as I was having cold sweats at the idea that mine would be late and I would not be able to play as everyone flew off into the horizon.

[Escadora]

East coast here as well, waiting on confirmation for CE as well. Stuck on validated. Should process and ship by Friday though, not too worried.

[SulwynCaliope]

I paid for 2 day shipping like many people here. If I end up getting it on the same day or, god forbid, later than people who paid for cheaper shipping, I'm going to be annoyed. Mostly with myself but also with SE. SE should have specified that people will be receiving their CEs at the same date. I'm annoyed at myself for not realizing that this would happen too. I paid for a more expensive service but I'm getting the exact same service as those who paid less is what this feels like.

[Brundlefly]

I paid for 2 day shipping like many people here. If I end up getting it on the same day or, god forbid, later than people who paid for cheaper shipping, I'm going to be annoyed. Mostly with myself but also with SE. SE should have specified that people will be receiving their CEs at the same date. I'm annoyed at myself for not realizing that this would happen too. I paid for a more expensive service but I'm getting the exact same service as those who paid less is what this feels like.

It seems like a lot of people didn't realize this. But what are you actually getting that is so amazing, besides the early access, that you have to have it right away? A statue? A music CD? Artwork? I'd take the early access first over those any day of the week. Also the in game items won't be released until next Tuesday anyways. The faster shipping is definitely not worth the money.

[Lexia]

A lot of people seem to choose the faster shipping, but it did say on the pre-order page that the item would arrive on or before the 23rd even before you choosing a shipping option.

[The_Leon]

It seems like a lot of people didn't realize this. But what are you actually getting that is so amazing, besides the early access, that you have to have it right away? A statue? A music CD? Artwork? I'd take the early access first over those any day of the week. Also the in game items won't be released until next Tuesday anyways. The faster shipping is definitely not worth the money.

Have you considered some people want that game disk so they don't have to endure large downloads across multiple systems (more than one player per household), and can do the install knowing that whatever patch their might be from when the game went gold will be smaller than the full download.. having that before early access is why I paid for that super over priced shipping and it looks like i'll probably get stuck trying to download anyway.

[JillyBean]

https://store.na.square-enix.com/pro...r-s-edition-pc

(scroll down)

*On or Near Release Date Delivery. While we try our best to schedule delivery to arrive on the release date, actual delivery date may vary depending on your location and method of shipping. Orders received after June 14th, 2015 11:59pm PST will arrive after the Release Day.

So it does imply that your location and method of shipping will effect your delivery date. Once I saw this about 10 days ago, and the early access "end date", I tried to change my shipping method (to faster) but was told by the SE Store support that would not be possible.

The part in red (which is red on their page) to me would mean that that's when they were going to ship. Seems some have shipped, but many have not.