Encyclopedia Eorzea not spotted in NA Square Enix Store

[ShirKirakira]

Not shipping until Dec 27th it looks like. A bit of a wait ahead, but the book looks gorgeous.

I've actually managed to handle one of these in person, but don't own a copy yet. It is gorgeous, and the pages are filled with super tiny text=more lore!

I'm hoping the "December 2017" ship date is just more SE store shenanigans. I've pre-ordered items in the past, and they've had weird shipping dates like that, but the items have always ended up shipping out before the estimated date.

[xieathe]

Pretty sure the Dec. 2017 is a placeholder date since it came up as a preorder sale. At least that's my hope, since my confirmation email said it's shipping.

Still miffed I had to pay extra shipping for it though because of the preorder status.

Edit: Okay so now it's showing up as just a regular order on the store after I've bought it. Does that mean I get a refund on the extra shipping I had to pay because of the original pre-order status or am I getting boned a second time after being unable to buy this at Fanfest?

[Bathroombard]

Can we get a dev response on this? I'm still a little sore on the lorebook after waiting in line for hours at fanfest and getting multiple different answers from different staff regarding this single item in particular.

Oh, and you know, plugging the book and telling us to buy it when the line is capped and the item's sold out.

Sorry I'm a little salty.



I hope this is accurate.

[Dustytome]

I just logged into the store and checked orders and it says 2017 for my order as well:
This product will be available on: 2017-12-27

[Berethos]

Refreshed the page and it's now showing release date of 10/17/16 with no "Ship on too far in the future *harrumph*" mention.

[DreamAngel-Ren]

But what year? Mine says December of 2017....

I got the same thing. I hope that's not true, but I get the feeling it is since there have been reports of typos from the books. So they might have to go and fix them which will take a lot of time. >_<

[Powe]

But I thought this wasn't a pre order? The EU has theirs up but as a regular non preorder thing

[ShirKirakira]

But I thought this wasn't a pre order? The EU has theirs up but as a regular non preorder thing

That's what I thought too. The impression I got from staff at the Fanfest was that there would be physical copies ready to order and ship this week.

[Powe]

Refreshed the page and it's now showing release date of 10/17/16 with no "Ship on too far in the future *harrumph*" mention.

Well the release date was already there when I came up like 2 minuets before 1 pm est

[Berethos]

I got the same thing. I hope that's not true, but I get the feeling it is since there have been reports of typos from the books. So they might have to go and fix them which will take a lot of time. >_<

I'm not sure it would take over a year to fix the typos, though...

So yeah, I'm definitely thinking it's placeholder/default information built into their store page and they will be correcting it as soon as they can (if it were December 2016 I could see it being accurate, but not 2017).

Edit: Yep, being edited as we're debating it - already changed to "Add to Cart" instead of Pre-order.

We were all just so hyped and chomping at the bit to get the book that we beat them to the punch on the fully updated store page.