Can anyone confirm that the pre-orders for Collector's Edition on Amazon.CO.UK are official (as in - "won't be removed later because the actual deal wasn't made with the publishers")? The amazon product page looks a bit shoddy and the price is different. So far the only UK retailer on the official site is GAME, and I sure as hell hope they won't get an exclusive on this, as they refuse to ship these editions overseas to the rest of Europe D:
I sincerely doubt that Amazon (UK, DE) would have put up the CE (today, of all dates), if they didn't have a deal. As both retailers web sites and the pre-order page are still being updated constantly, I definitely have confidence that the Amazon deal is legit... so I pre-ordered it there.
By the way, I want to express my compliments and gratitude to CDP for making this whole process so easy and painless. Within 24 hours after the announcement, I managed to pre-order the CE (for PC), and I even had multiple retailers I could choose from. Totally different from EA/Bioware's deal on the Dragon Age 3 CE, which is still not available in a lot of countries (including mine)... and absolutely no communication on whether or not that will change.
This is why I admire CDP and will gladly support them.