Not 100% true, the armour was pre-order only, and the sword was only with the day one and collector’s editions, but, there was an error with some codes that were meant to give the armour giving the sword instead or vice versa, so anyone in the PAL regions were given the other item if they redeemed one of the items as a sort of compensation.
Yes, I am annoyed when people refer to it as EU, as PAL applies to more than Europe, it also covers Australia, New Zealand and South Africa just to name a few other regions.