By now, you might have heard that players on the European servers, who purchased the Collector’s Edition of the Burning Crusade, were temporarily gypped out of their CE netherwhelp pets because Blizzard mighta kinda sorta forgot to put in the code for the pets. Heh, oops.

Sooooo … Blizzard is compensating the affected players by giving them an additional pet, Lurky, a murloc. When I first heard of this, I thought how cool, now I want Lurky too, but that’s just me thinking that more is more. (Well it is! By definition.)

Then I saw all the hoops they have to jump through to get the netherwhelp and the murloc — crimony. Here’s what I don’t get: don’t they have a list or some sort of numbering scheme they used for Collector’s Editions CD keys? Run a script on maintenance day and send out the pets? Not possible?

Maybe they have IT people like at my work where I’ll ask them to do something and they’ll say “that can’t be done, sorry”, when I know very well it can be done, I see other companies doing it, they’re just unwilling to do it.

That’s the point in the conversation when I’ll stomp out of their department cursing and plotting revenge.

And speaking of Collector’s Editions, Amazon just emailed me this morning that they now have Collector’s Editions available. I had submitted my email back in OCTOBER to be notified when CEs were available.

We’re happy to inform you that the items you requested are now available to order from Amazon.com!

Video Games :: World Of Warcraft Burning Crusade Collector’s Edition

Availability: In Stock. Ships from and sold by Amazon.com.

Price: $69.99

Well FYVM.