by BlackWidow » Sat Nov 01, 2014 4:52 am
It's too bad there isn't some official rules about how this will work, considering the download is released in the next two business days.
I have no idea how they will measure that 10,000 number across all platforms. XBOX Marketplace, Nintendo eShop, etc. don't talk to each other, it would be technically impossible for one to know if they were one of the first 10K, and nearly impossible for Disney to figure out as I do not think any of them offer real-time reporting to developers. Perhaps the first 10,000 folks who buy it, launch it, and connect to Disney servers will get a pop-up - but that seems like a lot of programming work for a one-time offer.
I'm wondering if it ends up being the first 10,000 who claim them, depending on whatever method we claim them whenever they get around to announcing it - in any case, it all seems like too much trouble to get two little discs that unlock content that you've already got on your system. I am planning on getting the set coming out on Tuesday for another platform than I normally play anyway (so I can test out toy boxes on different machines), and will be buying the download version because I hate dealing with discs, and if end up getting the two discs out of it, great, I'll likely just sell them anyway.