In expansions past you had to deal with all of the above AND then have to submit a ticket begging for game time or bnet balance for your digital copy. So, for example, if your physical copy arrives AFTER the expansion launches, not only will you not get any early access content for preordering, you won’t even be able to start leveling or otherwise access Dragonflight content until your mail arrives.īut hey, at least now they make the “refund” to balance automatic. Otherwise you’ll have to wait until your physical copy arrives in the mail and you add the code to your account to officially upgrade to Dragonflight.

More specifically, you’ll be able to do all of the ‘normal’ prepatch stuff like everyone else, but if Dracthyr are part of that as a pre-order bonus vs standard pre-patch content, it will only let people with active digital upgrades play them early. Will I have to also buy a digital copy beforehand in order to do the content? And that would be the end of CE versions with physical items. This debate can go on forever, but y’all keep forgetting that it is how it is, its not going to change unless they just stop selling physical versions of the game. Not everyone has a bnet account until they buy the product and register. There is NO way to reliably activate a physical product with a code inside the box without having the box and opening it.Ĭould there be ways to ‘make’ it work… possibly, but how would that be? Forcing all stores to use a special application and having the customer log into their bnet account while at the store to make the purchase? Possible, but not a way that would really work for everyone. So saying that there is technology to do this differently is incorrect. The codes are placed within the box making it impossible to use unless you open the box. Same thing with any physical copy of any product that needs a key to activate. Its not there, its inside where someone is not able to just go to a box and claim it without paying for it. Nowhere on the outside of the box can you find the codes for the product. Physical copies are a bit more difficult. Digital is easy, just pay for it and windows knows based on your login. They sell those through various ways, digital and physical. Maybe this example, which is accurate, will help explain the problem.

Wow digital activation problem