For some reason I thought it was to be released June 16th.

*Sigh* I guess I can wait another day...

But seriously, pre-orders should be able to download it just a little bit early...

While I would stay up until midnight (and most likely play TPM2008 way past the time I should've gone to bed   ) if someone said it'll be officially available at such time, I'm personally going to sleep at my usual time tonight and won't be expecting anything until I get home from work tomorrow at the earliest.

I haven't been charged yet for the pre-order (which went in April 6th), which is why I've never complained that we never got to play with a beta. But it also doesn't bode well for release times as usually you see at least the reservation of funds about 24 hours before stuff is avaiable. Then again, Stardock has had a history of charging my card a few days as I've bought, downloaded, and played the heck out of something that was available, so that doesn't necessarily mean anything.

Given all the time and energy that was put into finishing and polishing the game (which is why no public beta was available), I'm assuming it'll be available this week. It would be nice if those who pre-ordered through Stardock itself might get a little advanced play in, but I'm not holding my breath. Stardock's a great company, but TPM2008 has been a bit of a slip up compared to their usual standards of communication and their usual above-and-beyond customer involvement.

Kyro, thanks for the update and allowing me a good night's sleep (although I'm on call this week, so it might not help   ).

Hopefully it'll be available for download before everyone can come from a store with a boxed copy (@ Wed or Thurs). I've been burned a few times of late with pre-orders or buying direct (which is especially annoying for the few that charge ahead of time) where it would've been quicker, easier, and in some cases cheaper to just walk into a Best Buy and pick it up. It's not about 'being first' or anything like that... just the feeling that your show of enthusiasm just results in a kick in the teeth for the effort. Highly doubt Stardock will do that, but unforeseen technical difficulties might always arise...

I must say this is an extremely quiet release. No advertising anywhere, no mention on the front page about what is going on, and the only information about what/when is in a forum thread.

Midnight releases don't work on the internet, as everyone is in a different time zone.

I totally agree with you, Timothy. I went to both Wal-Mart and Best Buy, but there was no information as to when TPM2008 would be released.

I don't have my serial.

I didn't get a serial when I preordered. Secondly, I haven't heard anything about the game going gold yet, so I'm not sure it will be released today. It would be really good just to get a "It will be out by the end of the day from Stardock". That way at least we will know. I hope this isn't like the beta when they waited till after the day to mention that it was delayed (I mean whats the point we kind of guessed it was delayed after it didn't happen).

fingers crossed. according to IGN it went gold http://au.pc.ign.com/articles/879/879874p1.html
so it will probably be out in a few hours.

Can some-one let us know when it is coming out?this is ridiculus?

Does anyone know if their office is on Eastern Time? The website appears to be but that may be unrelated. If they are on eastern time we can hpoe that they intend to release it before end of buisness today, about 5 hours from now.

Just saw this from the comment thread on the aforementioned article: https://forums.galciv2.com/314940/page/2/#1769551

So Impulse is being released somewhere around 2pm EST, and I imagine we'll see TPM2008 in the same timeframe.

I think that the first Galactic Civilizations might have been released at midnight, but that's the only one. It's better to do it during the day so that if there are problems with the servers, people are awake to deal with it. The game should be available very soon.