I'm sick of these threads...

dude. I've been waiting on The Old Republic for years. When they originally launched Galaxies, I said "they should make the setting in the Old Republic era. Thousands of Sith and Jedi. No timeline to dance around."

And actually, I was waiting on Galaxies back in the day. Wasnt able to be there on launch day due to the fact that my area didnt have the new-fangled 'DSL' stuff yet . Yet, somehow, much of my college class time was spent reading forum posts on the game anyhow.

Like I posted above: Yarlen (SD rep) said

For everyone's info:  Stardock and what was formerly Impulse are not owned by the same company.  Former Impulse (now the Gamestop PC Download Store) is owned by Gamestop and the accounts are separate.  GPCDS doesn't offer Rebellion. The only way to get it currently is by pre-ordering directly from Stardock.  

As I pointed out previously, if someone is have a Rebellion pre-order issue, they need to either email support@stardock.com or sales@stardock.com.

Especially for those who've already paid for Sins and the two expansions like most of the regulars. I agree.

And if that's the case that means they'll probably need to release the beta VERY soon if they want to have enough time to fix bugs and implement suggestions from the beta testers.

Yeah it would be nice to get some sort of update on how things are progressing.  Even a simple things have been delayed by a few months or it looks like the beta will be out in the next few months would help.

Seriously?  That's only 2 or 3 weeks away.

I don't buy it.

I buy what the devs say. I'll need to hear it from them to believe it.

Or see it.

2-3 weeks is not enough time to beta test. I would buy a release date 2-3 weeks after beta concludes. And don't forget, we've barely seen anything on this game yet. If they were planning on a november beta, there would be enough stuff finalized at this point that there would be screens and information.

Besides... November/December doesnt work for me. I have Arkham City for November and The Old Repbulic in December.

A strategic time for Rebellion's release would be around the time the original Sins was released--February or March when it's easier to make a splash and stand out.

Err... I know that SotS2 will be released in a couple of days. I'm speaking of X3-Rebirth, and even though it's not an RTS, it stands more clearly in the way of Rebellion than Skyrim or others because it is still about starships, open environments and economy (although it's obviously NOT in the same field of SoaSE).

SotS2 comes out way too early and, imho, has its own separate fanbase. It is still a worthy opponent, though, because it's the same kind of game as SoaSE.

That's why I say that, even though X3 is still some months away(and is a slightly different genre) and SotS2 comes out so early, they will be among the biggest rivals for SoaSE-Rebellion.

p.s.: I must admit I didn't really understand your mention of Impulse.

On the matter of X-rebirth, my bad: I have the Nintendo-time ingrained in my mind, and for me Q4/2011 instantly meant Q4/2011[financial year], i.e. an optimistic january/february launch. That's why I thought it could be more of a problem because people could decide to keep their money in order to have something to play during those months, aftertheChristmas release rush. If it is released so early, it's probably not that much of a threat, because it, too, has mostly a strong fanbase, and I don't believe its developers count that much on the "new entries".

I still don't understand your point with Impulse: the factthat a digital copy is accessible doesn't make it free. People will still have to decide what to buy, especially now with this economy.

About rebellion: you made up that 11/12 or it's finally confirmed?

Oh, ok. I always checked the front page and it still said Coming Soon.

I'm wondering if 1/12 is a placeholder or the devs actually let the date slip without noticing.