Buying something is the result of a sale contract : buyer must pay according to the rules of the contract and the seller must deliver what is in the contract. If not, the contract is broken and customers must be compensated.
If you'd like to request a refund of a Collector's Edition as a result of this, then I'd recommend contacting
Larian support.
I'm thinking that from a marketing perspective Larian should probably just have said they were moving the PC release date to 6 August and making the 72 hour early access to the full game rather than just act 1. That would have been functionally almost identical to just releasing on 3 August (except that people would probably have been able to continue to get free upgrades to Digital Deluxe up to 6 August rather than, presumably, 3 August) and some folk might have found it easier to swallow.
I don't want a refund, i bought the game in EA in 2020 and spent more of 370 hours in... i am just happy that the game is most likely here. I played with mods so i will wait until these mods are updated to 1.0.
That i wanted to say is that is wrong to consider the modification of the official release on pc like a gift because the game will be available sooner and so Larian can suppress some content of specific editions. No, they sold 72 hours of anticiped game to some customers... so they have to deliver this to these customers. If they fixed the official PC release on august 3rd, owners of Deluxe an Collector editions should have access july 31th. On PS5 if they fix the official release date to september 6th, owners of Deluxe and Collector editions should have access september 3rd.
Look at that tweet :
https://twitter.com/larianstudios/status/1677342100159885314 It says : "Baldur’s Gate 3 launches August 3rd for PC and September 6th for PS5." It does not say : "Anticiped game begins august 3rd before official launch august 31th".
Here is an interview of Sven :
https://kotaku.com/baldurs-gate-3-pc-release-date-ps5-delay-starfield-1850588759It's clear that they moved the date to avoid confrontation with some other games, not to offer 4 weeks of anticiped game...
I play Larian's games since DOS1 and i appreciate what they do : very good games, a lot of free stuff (like enhanced editions), passion. I trust Larian. This is just a legal question. I think Larian should have never gone into these things because it holds a lot of legal questions (what is "72 hours of anticiped game" ? if it is 72 hours of playing, then the game should be downloadable even before to guarantee the 72 hours of playing...). And communication is very bad.
