Tyevve: I do not understand the logistics of manufacturing and shipping collector packages from Poland, but it is frustrating not being able to buy something that is offered to everyone when I have the funds for it. I have only bought 5 CEs through 12 years and I would have traded 4 of those to get Cyberpunk 2077 CE. The one I would not trade is...The Witcher 3 *PC* CE.
Scalpers are disgusting.
In Europe it wasn't necessarily the scalpers. The process of the whole CE preorder was just a bit uncoordinated.
After the E3 presentation and release date announcement, Amazon DE started selling the CE at around 01:30 in the morning. It was gone at around 09:00. This was around 1 to 1,5 days before the official site stated it was available.
The other stores in Germany (and Europe i think) started selling them in the time frame of 1 to 3 days after the announcement and they were pretty much all gone (2 or 3 hours? i think) before the official site updated. Only the PS4 CE was available for a very long time.
In the US, yes. They apparently started on the 20th (not sure about the time) and were pretty much gone immediately, as i read.
And i read somewhere on one of their Twitter accounts that there won't be a second round of CEs.