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Vivendi Jilts WoW CE Pre-order Customers

Posted by Zonk on from the how-to-make-friends-and-influence-people dept.

Draconix writes "Having pre-ordered the World of Warcraft Collector's Edition over a month in advance, I eagerly checked my email on November 22nd, expecting confirmation of shipment. Instead, I received a notice from Inside Mac Games, explaining that their order for the WoW Collector's Edition would not be filled. It seems, at the last minute, Vivendi Universal decided to ship a limited number of copies, and only to major players, such as Amazon.com. Doubtless, IMG is one of many stores who have had to inform their unsuspecting customers of this development. Of course, it is now too late to obtain it from one of the distributors that did receive it, so thousands of expectant gamers will come up empty-handed--denied what many had ordered months in advance. With Vivendi Universal already at odds with one of their developers, is more trouble on the way?"

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  1. CE shipped to me by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Well I ordered my CE from EB Games about 3 weeks ago.
    Today I got an email saying its been shipped.
    Maybe I'm the lucky one.

    For all the naysayers out there, I've been playing WOW since alpha. About 10 months or so.
    (I was lucky enough to know someone who knew someone :D )

    WOW is in a better state to be released than any other MMORPG released so far.
    There is lots of content in for characters up to level 60. And they are working on more every day.
    I'm not saying it's perfect for release, but its damn good.

    Blizzard had said, that if it wasnt fun, it doesnt get into WOW. And I think they did a good job with that.
    There is no killing 100's of kobolds, grinding for a level. Their quest based system works really well. (Unlike the randmon mission system crap in SWG)

    You will enjoy this game.
    You will get emotionaly attached to your characters.
    You will be having fun while you're playing.

    Everyone should be playing this game, because it really is great.
    For the 10 months I was playing, I only bought 2 other games (Doom 3, and HL2) thats how much time you will spend playing it and having fun.