Expansion rollout strategy

[Astarotha]

look at it this way, you preorder shb, receive your code for hw/sb, then turn around and cancel your shb order, how is squeenix going to prevent you from turning around and using that free code for 2 expansions (or selling that code online), and if someone truly wanted to abuse that system you could pull what people did with fo76 and preorder/cancel the order multiple times and get a new code each time you did it

so to prevent that loophole from being abused to shit they by necessity have to tie the expansions to your shb code, and unless they figured out a way to release the shb code to you early but not run afoul of consumer protection laws in europe that prevents corporations from making preorders nonrefundable and requires a period of time post launch where you can receive a refund from i dont see a way they could give you early access to hw/sb

btw, be glad they dont make you buy each and every expansion separate like wow used to do (or when they started doing the packaged deals youd rebuy all the expansions plus the base game you already have like 4 different ways)