Brace yourselves Gentlemen, I spoke to the Ubisoft Head Office today and they have confirmed that there will be NO COLLECTORS OR BOXED SETS available for sale in Australia, this will be DLC only!!!!!:evil: You can contact Ubisoft directly on 02 85871800. Sorry about the bad news, get your overseas orders in quick!

No Collectors Boxed Sets For Australia
 

Spoke to Ubisoft Head Office today and they stated that they will not be supplying any Collectors or Boxed Sets for Australia!:evil: You can contact Ubisoft on 02 85871800. Sorry about the bad news, get your overseas orders in quick

WTF?? that's &*!! $#*! :mad:

that means $100 (on top of purchase price) at least, to ship it in... < grumble, grumble, stomp, grimace, FFS whinge, throw arms in air, more grumble >

that sucks. let's make a fuss. don't they want to sell this bloody product or what?

Seriously, does Ubisoft ever make a good decision? This is pathetic.

Even trying to post on the ubi forum is a mess.I cant understand these guys.

Yeah and they reported an operating profit loss of $55.5mil for March 2010!

If they spent less money on crappy protection systems that, lets be honest, don't work, then they may actually turn over a profit, keep paying customer's happy and maybe be able to put more $$$ into better development of their in house titles and GIVE US AUSSIES THE FRIGGEN COLLECTOR EDITION!

But I know there's some department manager or CEO at UBI looking for ways to try and justify their job by concocting a smoke screen on paper that they can present to their stakeholder which says "hey we lost money but we're on track to make a profit "in the near furture" as we winning the in pirated software war."

Some people just can't admit they're wrong.

Well! Damn!

Given the choice I would have prefered to put my money through a local company, But I would rather have the boxed copy. It seems a bit short sighted by Ubi Australia.

Cheers and thanks for the heads up.

I would rather bye the box copy than down loading it. I hate down loading games it takes to long, the box give 1 hr installing and patching and your playing.
Down loading you waiting 6 or more hour then may have a power outage or some so you may have to re down load the 6hrs again, it a pain in the sun dont shine

You would think that someone at Ubisoft Australia could pick up the phone and get the warehouse to send a few sets sent out for sale through their Ubishop. Apparently not! So, what are our alternatives? Can anyone suggest a reliable UK site or similiar, boostep.com looks like a possibility. Must be a way to sort something out.:)

If we all can send a email to Ubisoft aus rally up and get the numbers spread the word on what going on, we may just get them to send them here.
and if we can have some help from 1c that will be really fantastic.

I wouldn't bother emailing them, I did and never got a reply about the Collectors Set. Ring them up and speak to someone who may eventually get annoyed enough to do something about it. But don't hold your breath....

They may if we can get something like 600+ Aussies & New Zealanders or just set up a petition. They cant ignore the numbers

Xactly

If 10 guys on a forum yell "we want collectors", it won't do much

If 500 call them to place an order, they might change their minds.

Collectors are expensive for the publisher. It's a higher risk taken on inventory costs (think about unsold copies) for a lower margin (in %).
So if they think they won't sell many in a particular area, they won't offer it.

I preordered a Collectors Edition from Amazon.de, they ship world-wide:

http://www.amazon.de/-2-Sturmovik-Cl...6819920&sr=1-1

Hope you speak German then, you know it is the German language version that they are offering.

Yes it says so, but I hope it is possible to choose language in the game. As CoD also is downloadable, it would surprise me if they have more than one version with all languages included.
Anyway, I speak German as well as English ;)

Collector's edition for USA
 

Hello, my question is simple, where can I find it? It's not on amazon.com or UBI.com. Should I wait or pre-order it on an european website?
Thanks

It would appear (at this time) the collectors edition is only available to the European region.

anyone recommend best place to buy from overseas please?

and here's me with a nice frame for the cloth map to go into and a spot on the wall all picked out.....

Contact UBISOFT
 

I have emailed UBISOFT through their HELP page requesting info on Boxed sets and would suggest everyone outside of Europe who would prefer a Box set to do the same. The only way to get what you want is to speak out and let them know.I think downloading games is a cheap and greedy way of selling a product (for $89.95 AUD) that already has a large and loyal fan base.

Downloading aka digital distribution is the future even if you don't like it, i personally prefer boxed version but i've many games on Steam-only as well. More money goes to the developers directly via db than retail stores.

+1
Neither in South America we can get the boxed set. Here we even can´t preorder the downloable version. In spite of not being so active in this forum, the latin american comunity is huge and we are waiting CoD as anxious as in any other part of the world.

I'm sorry for being cynical but I don't believe $89.95 for a download version in Australia is fair or that the developers are getting anything more. I think they (UBI) will charge what ever they can because they can. The same thing is happening with music and aps here in Australia, our dollar is worth the same as the USD but we are paying double the price. The only way to change things is to speak up. If I don't get a good answer from UBI I will buy from overseas or wait till the game hits the bargain box.

Why can't you order it in the States(or maybe Japan)?

Hi, point is UBISOFT should make COD Boxed Sets available on all sites. UBI needs to know costumers are unhappy. After all the work thats been done by the Maddox team it is unacceptable for a distributor to upset customers.

1 Euro = 1.35 USD and 1.34 AUD

So if it is 67 Euro, it should be about right for a download rate, based on AUS price.

I'm sure there will be a boxed edition in the US. Should there not be a boxed edition, there will be one less sale. Digital download may be the future, but it's not in my future. I don't have the internet speed nor inclination to download a 4GB game.

I think the game is bigger than 4gb , it's around 8-10, still the old farts of yesterday need to grow up and upgrade.
A niche of a niche in 2011, you can't expect your local store to have it, more likely it will show up in online retail shops
in your area, buy it from them.

Us old farts have a hard time remembering numbers. LOL ;) Still, even if it is 4GB's, that's huge. 8GB is definitely out of the question. My city has primordial internet service, and won't be upgrading in the foreseeable future. How many times have you (generic you) heard of peoples download being corrupted due to large files and slower connections.

I've downloaded some of the mod packs for IL2, and there hasn't been a time where I don't get corruptions.


I'm confident it'll show up in boxed editions. I'm not really worried.... but just in case, I'm stating my objections.

I think that best option would be to pay for the boxed game and while waiting to get it via post, to be able to download it from day 1.

Why would anyone, who wants the boxed version, have to wait until post comes?

1st:
We live in a globalized world.
If want to watch to the end of my favorite TV series, because they are behind schedule in my country, I can order it from the US or Canada.
I can refuse to pay some crazy price for a PC part since I can order it from Honk Kong, only takes about 7 days.

Seriously where's your problem?!
Just call Ubi, they may share your POV or not - if the don't; just get it somewhere else.


Ubisoft Games: 1902 262 102, calls to this number are charged at $2.48 per minute, lines available 9am - 6pm Mon - Fri (excluding Public Holidays)



MAILING ADDRESS:


UBISOFT P/L
PO Box 1749
Strawberry Hills
NSW 2012

2nd:
DL-Version
Why would you want to buy it in (which is joke, the server could anywhere on the planet) Australia?
If I go for the DL, version I'll buy it the UK.
Unless there's a IP restriction...

Ubishop (for DL version) will automatically redirect to the homepage for your area...
ie typing for UK from Australia will redirect to Australia page

$2.48/ min to whinge at them?? you gotta be kidding :) there was a landline number listed on another post smewhere

but if it turns out that UBI won't release the boxed version to AUS, it may turn out that shipping it in to be the only option (an expensive option though).

http://uk.gamesplanet.com/buy-downlo...r-2307-39.html

£29, probably no redirection.

In Canada, I can't find the Collector's edition but the download is $49.95, and right now the American, Australian and Canadian dollars are within 2% of each other, so why $89.95 in Autralia ?

"You will receive a download link and activation key on day of release"
I doubt that's really a collector's edition.

30 GBP = 48 AUD and 36 Euro

something sux

According to the poll 90% of us want a hard copy, so maybe Ubisoft should pay a little attention to the preferences of their paying customers, you know, the people whose money keeps them in a job! Or do they figure that we will order it from overseas, which saves them shipping costs and makes the Post Office more profits. I just hope they release enough Collectors sets to accomodate all the overseas orders.:)

Trying to order CoD from Australia via an overseas UBI site always re-directs you back to the UBI Australia. I even went as far as to use Tor to trick the site and was able to place an order but when selecting the shipping country as Australia, it simply cancels the order.

I don't mind paying what the Australian price is, but I'm not stupid. I recently got Dead Space 2 for $20 less on STEAM than what the local retailers were offering.

What I'm pissed at is that no-one outside of Europe will get the collectors edition, which to me makes no sense.

Right, but you get the game on the day of it's release, and save some money - which will sweeten the time you'll have to wait for your US(or UK) version to arrive.

Anwer=Greed.
I think because we Aussies were used to paying more for imports. We had to pay for the low Aussie dollar (Aussie dollar was around $0.57 to the USD) shipping and import taxes. With a download only tax should apply. The only way to change things is to let companies know we're not stupid and to treat us so is an insult. I thinks its one reason pirating is such a problem, most will pay what they think something is worth. Rip them off and pirating starts to look like a good way to get even.
PS. I don't condone pirating or ripping people off just because they can.

IMA the way a person decides to read a story, watch a movie pay a bill, bank or play a comp game should be up to them. If hard copy's are made available in local stores there would be no waiting or people trying to tricking the system to get what should be available. Trying to rip people off or dictate what they can purchase leads to things like a black-market (proved again and again by history)

OK, if we cant buy the boxed set down here, what online stores do people recommend?

this whole issue is bloody frustrating, it may be on amazon.de but not on amazon uk??
if it ever does appear on amazon uk im going to buy it, get it sent to my mother, and she can post it to me..what a palaver

Guys we must let UBI know our concerns via email or we will end up with the ruff end of the pineapple. All this talk of discontent will change nothing, only action will. With email there will be a documented account of our concerns. Come on guys YOUR COUNTRY NEEDS YOU.
VIVA THE REVOLUTION.

perhaps the Australian office PR and Promotions Manager could help?

anna.chance@ubisoft.com.au


http://www.ubisoftgroup.com/index.php?p=69

Good job. Ive sent a polite inquiry. The more that do the more chance of getting things done.

155 people altogether answerer this poll as of today.

Hardly a number worth looking at except for some indication of preferences. Among these 155, some have already ordered their own copy.


Do not forget also that the release of hard copy in stores does not depend only on Ubisoft. If the sores do not place any order for hard copies (and it's already the case in some countries for most PC games except the huge hits), then Ubisoft won't bother making them.
In that particular case, who knows...

Hi Guevara, from Uruguay I can go to the preorder page for the downloable version, I havent pre order because i haven´t a paypal account yet but i could go almost to the end of the process. Please confirm if you could do the same and got stuck later in the process or you just cant get to the preorder page, cause im confident i will be able to buy it and maybe im wrong and then i will have to fly to kick some ubis rear ends.

I have no hope in getting the collectors edition in Uruguay.

Viva the revolution?
I think Ubisoft are saying ¡No pasarán!

possibly, perhaps, Ubi has each download watermarked?

Just fired off a polite enquiry to their PR Department, well done on finding that address Wolf Rider! Now we wait and see....

What if upgrading your internet isn't an option? Not all of us live in areas where you have a list of internet providers. Where I live you have only ONE ISP to choose from. My download speed is about 2 megabits per second, .53 upload. It took me over 12 hours to download the original version of Rise of Flight when I beta-tested it. I will NOT buy a sim unless I can get a hard copy of it.

Us old farts around my area would call you a condescending piss-ant...

No luck on that one. The email bounced back as an invalid address. Will try the old fashioned phone call again.:)

unbelievable iddinit?


the email bounces but going to the addy in the link for the country index of media reps, and clicking on it brings up a different addy

chad.acers@ubisoft.com.au

I sent one off, lets see what happens


*late edit

country index => http://www.ubisoftgroup.com/index.php?p=69 (from my earlier post)

nothing has bounced back (yet)

No luck with UBI as yet but did get a quick reply from one top bloke from
Cheap Games Australia heres what he said.

Hi Andrew,
It is definitely disappointing. I will try to get some in but can't
promise anything at this stage.
Thanks for the information.
Joe
Cheap Games Australia

http://www.cheapgames.com.au

Spoke to Ubisoft again today. They stated that there will definitely be NO Collectors or Standard box sets offered for retail in Australia. DLC only! They were very nice though and offered to pass on my comments as feedback to whatever department handles this.:rolleyes: They did sound surprised when I mentioned that their company had been receiving some fairly negative comments regarding this new style of product distribution.:) There is no other option than an overseas order. I always did like Finland!

Ok, I got another message from Joe at Cheap Games Australia.
It read-
I have been in contact with a few overseas suppliers and hopefully they
will get back to me soon with pricing/availability.
Thanks,
Joe
Cheap Games Australia

Its not just the high price that encourages pirating.

Titles which are "download only" seem to often generate a "... well if I can't get a DVD and have to download it anyway, then I may as well just wait for the cracked version " attitude.

i will call ubi australia tomorrow and vent.

perhaps if a whole bunch call they might take the hint

If it's download only is their any reason why us Aussies can't buy the download version from the US or are there restrictions?

Cheers!

"Interesting about the lens mentioned, A game publisher is attempting to charge double, yes double, for a download version of a soon to be released game. As far as I am aware the US and AUS dollars are at parity, or so close to it as not to matter... there's no packaging or shipping costs to be borne by the publisher, crikey, there isn't even any DVD manufacturing costs to consider and they want to charge us double!!"



comment #73 http://www.news.com.au/business/reta...#ixzz1DFfqE24Q


I wonder who might have posted this comment?? :wink:


and still no reply from the email sent off earlier... 'tis sad indeed

electronic tagging by way of email and card account, plus more than likely each download will have some form of watermark/ prevention of secondhand sales by onselling the DVD, is about the only reasons I can see. Accuracy? who knows?

That is a pretty raw deal for us any way you slice it.

If we are forced into downloading our copies (please noooooo!) what would stop us from downloading from US and charging the credit card in US dollars? The Australian distribution channels would just force our money overseas to the parent company. Not a good move by the Oz marketing types I must say. I'll be watching this thread closely and am not going to put down a cent until I'm sure there is no other way but to get a downloaded version. Like someone mentioned before, if this is to be anything like Il-2 there may in the future be up to 5 installs on my computer. Sorting this mess out from a download version will not help.

The Ubishop redirects to the local region page... trying to get through the US or UK keeps being redirected back to Australia.
Amazon won't ship to Oz.

Best to hope for is; Ubi sees the error of their marketing or in finding an english version hardcopy (and hoping that it hasn't been region locked) outlet that will ship to Oz... or suck it up, forget the C.E. and pay double (compared to the US/ UK) for the download.

How about drumming up a bit of public awareness in the media and see if it raises any dirt?

Here's a link to my effort on the 'Atomic' magazines gaming forum.

http://forums.atomicmpc.com.au/index...howtopic=39802 (WARNING-contains bad language)

Feel free to post your own opinions in the thread!

Cheers

Hij staat nog steeds niet op de webshop van www.simw.com
:(

No purchasing option for South America
 

Any idea why there's no option to purchase digitaly for South America, many people in Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Brazil are waiting for this release, but now we can't buy the product.

I live in the caribbean and I got the option for download.Though Puerto Rico is U.S. territory.If you go to the UBI site and search Cliffs of Dover nothing appears?

World Wide Distribution Questions
 

Please redirect and discuss at the UBI forums, you will get your point across to the distributor more effectively.

http://forums.ubi.com/eve/forums/a/frm/f/8071032709

I've pre-ordered my Collctors Edition from Halfmoon Games
http://www.puolenkuunpelit.com

Price: 64.90 € + shipping

Their website is in English and Finnish. They ship worldwide :grin:

I was thinking about pre-ordering it from either puolenkuunpelit or vpd.fi but then I checked out which day the 24th is, it's a thursday which means the game most likely will arrive at monday the earliest. I'm just gonna stroll down to Pelimies/Anttila/Gigantti and pick it up so I can play it during the weekend :grin:

It is interesting to know that UBI's stupid DRM stance and console style marketing strategy has resulted in them loosing money - just as many people predicted.

Is there anyway of finding out if CoD is region locked?

My sources tell me you will be restricted to playing the campaign for the side your country allied with during the battle.

Lucky Italians get to play both sides :)

sorry WTE Galway, I meant region locked, as in the same as DVD movies, some console games for instance

So what's the consensus as to where to buy a collectors ed if i live in Australia? Best websites likely to import it?

voilà: they ship worldwide.
http://www.bol.ch/shop/home/rubrikar...31116919241728

You may have to use google translator, I could find an English button.

AU$128 incl shipping plus evtl. OZ taxes.

I don't know if those are multi-lingu DVDs tho...but pressing two different limited editions is just as unlikely.

EAN3307219934544
Veröffentlicht25.02.2011
Plattform PC
Games Medium: DVD
FSK16
Sprache Deutsch (language German)
Genre Simulation.




thanks anyway though

Well im pretty disgusted at the games distributors in Australia generally and they wont be getting another cent from me in this country for any software until they get sensible about local pricing and availability.

Its just too easy to order it direct internationally online or get a friend or family to buy it and ship to you and still save money compared to local distribution.

Our retailers recently had the hide to also try and get local taxes added to international online purchases... If you cant compete in a global economy in retail with the advent of online sales its time for some of these people to think about a new vocation in life!

For the dutch guys:
I have send a email to simware and now they say they are not sure if they can sell it.
Then reading about bol.ch already having it for pre-order i have send a email to the customer service of bol.com and got this reply:


Hartelijk dank voor uw e-mail van 8 februari 2011.

U kunt sommige artikelen die nog niet direct leverbaar zijn bij bol.com reserveren. Bij de levertijd van het artikel staat in dat geval: ‘Nog niet verschenen - U kunt deze titel reserveren’ en de datum waarop het artikel verschijnt. Een artikel reserveren is eigenlijk hetzelfde als een artikel bestellen. U doorloopt alle stappen van het bestelproces en het artikel wordt naar u verstuurd zodra het leverbaar is.

Als een artikel niet op onze site staat, kunt u het niet reserveren. Raadpleeg onze site regelmatig voor de laatste verschijningsdata.

Wij hopen u hiermee voldoende te hebben geïnformeerd.

Met vriendelijke groet,
bol.com Klantenservice

www.bol.com

Mocht uw vraag hiermee nog niet voldoende beantwoord zijn dan willen we u vriendelijk vragen om dit aan te geven in antwoord op dit bericht.

---------------------------


---- Original Message ----
From : x
To : epiphany@bol.com
Subject : Op zoek naar een pre-order mogelijkheid [CASE:5639186]
Date : Tue, 08 Feb 2011 10:30:15 GMT


Geachte heer/mevrouw,

Gaan jullie de volgende pc game verkopen:
IL-2 Sturmovic: Cliffs of Dover
Op de bol.ch site staat die game al vermeld: http://www.bol.ch/shop/home/rubrikar...31116919241728
Veel nederlandse gamers zoeken naar winkel/onlineshop die het gaat verkopen.
De retail versie en de collectors edition schijnt niet in de normale winkels te komen in nederland.
Release date: maart 2011

Ive setup a poll at UBI to let them know what our buying intentions are.
 

Ive setup a poll at UBI to let them know what our buying intentions are, to try and get them to do a decent job of supporting this wonderful game with decent distribution.

Please use it truthfully!

http://forums.ubi.com/eve/forums/a/t...9/m/2771062909

This is an ENGLISH forums only. If you cannot read or write English use a Google translator or something to make your posting.

Have you ever run a business which has to compete with a huge online market?
Having a warehouse in the middle of nowhere and running a homepage has quite a different cost structure compared to a local shop with employees in the business district of your town.
You can never - ever compete with online prices.
Your local software shop's prices have to be higher than than the ones of the eshops, and you have find a way to justify them; service f.i..
How many computer shops with a real world shop where in your area 10years ago, how many today?

Sure trying to tax esales is cheap(and wrong), still you have to understand their position - in the end the consumer loses too, as there won't be any local shops left.


***

That's why I wondered if they really press two versions.
Most games sold over here are multi language(they just dont mention the language option on the cover).





Wow - the swiss replied in Dutch?

Apology's to all for my ranting. I have upped my medication and should be rite. Ok where were we. Thats rite, I'll have a hard copy thanks.:grin:

uuuh no. www.bol.com is their Dutch site.

Ok - I see.
An international eshop with a swiss spin-off domain, you dont see that very often.
Thx.

Swiss, Its an Australian joke. They were refering to the Harvey Normans franchise which over here is quite big and they are very aggressive with their sales and have driven alot of little retail shops out of busness capturing a large market share, they are perceived as being very profit driven and service is one of those points that they could improve on. Mr Norman is now the one crying out that he can't compete even though they use a lot of off shore warehousing etc to reduce costs and minimise tax and payroll expenses.

Cheers!

here is another site to check out... http://www.puolenkuunpelit.com/kaupp...n&currency=EUR


I have not tried it yet...so don't blame me... :)

Still looking for one that is A... in english.. and B... take Paypal... C.... Ships to Australia

Just had a reply from Finland. Their customer service has said that the Collectors Boxed set they are advertising is an English version. I asked them specifically about the manual and map, so hopefully this is the right version for us. They say the game is for the Australian region on their add. They also have an Australian page for the website , so no translation problems there. The Collectors set, including postage is only a few dollars more than the Australian download price! And Gonk, they take Paypal. The address of this wonderful website is boostep.com. Are they any good? Have no idea, but worth a look.:)

P.S Make sure you leave just one copy for me to order too, thanks!:grin:

RGR... thx

Any poruguese managed to get a track on the game??

i found 0, the nearest go i found was "aeroteca" in Madrid.


cheers

Just ordered COD CE from boostep.com for delivery to Australia using Paypal!

So Dutch en Belgium people can place their orders here:
http://www.boostep.eu/product_info.p...ucts_id=354308
And pay with paypal!

Great find Scream. I did a search and found other people have been using boostep.com for a couple of years. I've put in my order so that's one less Collectors addition available. Thanks for all the help guys.:grin:

Oh and it only cost $5 more than the sucky Australian down load to get it delivered to my door.

I preordered mine (download version) at getgames for 50 bucks...

http://www.getgamesgo.com/catalogue/...liffs-of-dover