Heavensward CE preorders not being released in AUS???

[Rostum]

Holy cow that's crazy. I can easily just import the CE from North America to get the physical goodies and also buy the digital CE, and still have money left over. O_O;

Still going to wait for EBGames to list it.

[Chiramu]

Holy crab buckets. its 379.99 for an expansion?! What the heck SE..

It's not Square Enix at fault here! Don't blame Square for our idiotic Australian retailers!

[Antonius2004]

Holy christ, forget the price, what about the story revelations it mentions? Betrayal is the reason for needing to head to Ishgard... Then it is true, he's the reason!

[scYtheShark]

I was willing to spend up to $250 but 400 bucks? Screw that shit. Digital CE it is...

[Nestama]

$379 for the collectors edition for the PS4, huh? I could just buy the Majora's Mask New 3DS for $249 from EB Games... if I didn't already have one.

Yeah no. I'm sorry SE, but that is just not acceptable. Especially when the regular Heavensward game is only $70. Where the hell did that $310 come from?

[Mayoyama]

I suddenly feel very ill.... This is why we can't have nice things Down Under...

2013 ARR PS3 CE: 135AUD

Fast forward 2 years

2015 HW PS4 CE: 380AUD...

GG

No wonder EB Games are reluctant to commit to anything and are still telling customers "we still don't have information on the CE yet" (This is on their FB page as of 5 hours ago). Their buying team probably took one look at the projected RRP and went "LULWUT.. no way people will buy this for this price, let's find a way to get out of having to sell this"

[Anera]

$379..... I have nothing to say...

[Niqote]

That comes with a PS4 right?

*stares*

Seriously though... maybe its a stupid preliminary price... you know how when you pre order something at EB and the price is a placeholder till you get further towards the release date?

Because if that truely is the price... we really need a nice long sit down as a community and find out some REAL information as to why this sort of hike is happening and how we as the consumers of this region can petition the CORRECT places to stop this kind of BS.

[Arthen_Fushichou]

Well this is probably a Recommended Retail Price that's been locked in, It's probably got nothing to do with the Retailer themselves as the retailer won't know how much the product is being sold to them until a few weeks beforehand when the actual order is placed. Besides this is how it is with most Collector's Editions in Oceania and as I explained in a previous posts.

Just have to hope the price will drop down once more retailers jump in to lower it over price fighting or until retailers can confirm the prices from the Suppliers, After-all Type-0 was $299 then dropped to $259 about a month before release.

[Arthen_Fushichou]

No wonder EB Games are reluctant to commit to anything and are still telling customers "we still don't have information on the CE yet" (This is on their FB page as of 5 hours ago). Their buying team probably took one look at the projected RRP and went "LULWUT.. no way people will buy this for this price, let's find a way to get out of having to sell this"

And I totally doubt this is even remotely true what so ever, considering they were 3-5 days behind posting their Heavensward dual packs. They probably have the information already and are updating their system or in the process of doing so.