Limited Codex Edition (PC) - Discontinued? | Forums

[Tsyac-Enigma]

Hello,

Recently I went down to EB Games Australia in my region of Hervey Bay, and I was given a message that the Limited Codex Edition for PC had been discontinued and that no copies were to be sent up to my area.

Can someone elaborate on this? I pre-ordered my copy LAST YEAR, and if I have to take people to court to get my copy...I will, because they are trying to downgrade me to a crappy Auditore Edition and according to Australian law...they are breaking it.

A pre-order that long ago is practically a binding contract, there's no exceptions to this.

Can anyone tell me if they've experienced a similar thing, or perhaps a Ubisoft rep can shed some light onto this?

I won't be missing out, I don't care if heads roll...but I want my Limited Codex Edition as was promised to me when I pre-ordered it from day 1...

[Tsyac-Enigma]

Hello,

Recently I went down to EB Games Australia in my region of Hervey Bay, and I was given a message that the Limited Codex Edition for PC had been discontinued and that no copies were to be sent up to my area.

Can someone elaborate on this? I pre-ordered my copy LAST YEAR, and if I have to take people to court to get my copy...I will, because they are trying to downgrade me to a crappy Auditore Edition and according to Australian law...they are breaking it.

A pre-order that long ago is practically a binding contract, there's no exceptions to this.

Can anyone tell me if they've experienced a similar thing, or perhaps a Ubisoft rep can shed some light onto this?

I won't be missing out, I don't care if heads roll...but I want my Limited Codex Edition as was promised to me when I pre-ordered it from day 1...

[ThaWhistle]

the codex edition seems to have been oversold in just about every market, it is still being made, but alot of pre-orders are being cancelled.

I don't know anything about Australian law. So I'm trying to look into that, do you have any links to anything relating to pre-order laws in Australia?

[Tsyac-Enigma]

Oversold? How can you oversell something when a person has pre-ordered it on the exact day it was announced? If I pre-order something on day 1, I expect to get what I ordered.

I'm not having "my" order cancelled in favour of someone else down in a big city who could've pre-ordered it months or weeks after I did...that's a copout to anyone.

As for links to the laws regarding this, no I'm afraid not. And it'll take forever to find it in the babble they have on their websites.

But I do have the right to bring them to court and force them to provide a copy through claims, which is a claim I cannot lose when I have proof of purchase/pre-order.

I don't mind the fact that it's still being made...and frankly, I don't even mind waiting a little longer...but I want what I pre-ordered, I'm not having someone tell me they've cancelled it without my authority when I've had it waiting for months on pre-order.

[AubreyWilborn]

Wow, man....tough situation. I'm afraid this all relates back to the nasty business of Ubisoft's delay, and how it was handled. Like you, I pre-ordered ACB for the PC nearly a year ago-when the game was first announced for all three platforms. Then, shortly after the delay was announced, my pre-order from Best Buy was cancelled.

Now, we know from later Ubisoft comments that they hadn't even STARTED working on ACB PC until AFTER ACB was released for the consoles. So, you and I basically pre-ordered a game that didn't even EXIST at the time. So, I can see any pre-order arrangement you made with these folks a year ago, when the PC game hadn't even begun, as being viewed as null and void.

That being said, I dunno how that jives with Australian law, and if you pursue legal action, I hope you are succesfull. Good luck, whichever path you choose.

[LCGuardian]

Just a heads up. Ignoring any consideration of whether a breach of contract claim has any merit, getting an order for specific performance for a generic item is a very difficult ask.

[ThaWhistle]

hmm, after digging more, it seems that the codex edition is indeed cancelled for Australia, and is Europe only.

[AnthonyA85]

It's canceled for Australia? Wow, that just shows how poorly Ubisoft handled the Special editions this time round. I think next time, they should either make a surplus amount, or just not bother.

I just checked my brother's play.com account (he really shouldn't have given me his password ), and the Cx Ed on play is still avialable for pre-order (I'm in the uk so...i'm alright I guess)

It's a shame Ubi under-estimated exactly how many people would pre-order the special editions.

I mean, we don't even know how many editions were made, platform wide, going back to 2002 and the Age of Mythology Collector's Edition, they only made 21000 of those, i have No# 15360/21000.

[ThaWhistle]

Was it ever available for preoder from Ubi outside of europe? part of me is thinking it might have been retailers dropping the ball.

[Tsyac-Enigma]

Yes, it was available to both Europe/UK and Australia, as we use the same region code and languages for most of our games. It was advertised as such before it was listed by retailers.

So it's not a case of them dropping the ball.

What they're saying is though, is it is available...but only in limited areas now (they're basically excluding every area except the larger populated places)...which is not only wrong by a typical fairness standing, it also goes against certain laws which EB Games over here can be taken to court for.

Yet, other people say it's not available at all here...so someone is lying, either EB Games or whoever said it's not here at all. So which is it?

On another point, to me it just seems like another case of PC players being kicked in the balls yet again by Ubisoft...plenty of companies out there often "oversell" pre-orders, as they say...but also produce more as a result, is it just another case of "you couldn't be bothered", just like your shady "business reasons" for PoP08's DLC?

Honestly, keep it up...and you'll alienate an entire playerbase that'll last a lot longer than any console will.

Anyway...seeing as I basically have to settle for a second best "butchered" version of the collector's edition, can anyone confirm if we get all the DLC with the PC version?

Including The Da Vinci Disappearance? And does that include The Aqueducts/Aqua Gear, The Trajan Market, The Harlequin and the Officer with the Helmschmied Drachen Armor too?