Any first impressions will be great.

Gamestop bought out EB Games a while back, I thought? Or am I living in a different world?

http://boards.ign.com/demigod/b24152/178719081/p1/?2

I took that from thier site couple weeks ago

so they released it when they said hey would

Indeed.  Don't forget the backstory to the game: only one demigod can ascend to godhood.  This seems to contradict how the game actually plays, but there it is.

well i'd gladly preorder and give all profit to stardock, but i unfortunately have a gamestop giftcard that needs used.  that and there is a gamestop like 4 blocks away from my dorm room; which is must faster than d/ling (plus i always get nervous at the idea of a preorder and downloading a full game from the internet; i just like being able to look at and hold the thing in my hands, just my preference i guess)

im going home this weekend for easter anyways, so if i did pick it up it wouldn't be til monday.  i'll probably only be able to hold off playing til that night tho; lol i think the temptation would be to great for me to wait that extra day

No, no!  You help the other people on the same boat as you to sink the other boats. Use them, use their talents. Once you're the only boat left, you feign disinterest in the goal. When you're sure you can swim the final stretch without help and when they least expect it, you take them out. Or better, you pit them against each other and then take out the survivors.

#1 rule in being # 1: Enemies are a lot harder to kill than allies

Also, no one can get to the very top alone. You have to make a stairway out of corpses. In that case, best they be your that of your foes before you start using your allies. *Wink* *Wink*

I'm just joking, teamwork is lime. Please, I'm serious.. I'm tired of horrible teams and idotic people in every game I play. Me and a mate had to basically 2 vs 3 most of our DoW2 ranked matches because our "ally" played worse than that crappy A.I. Easy wins against bad players, but against equal or better it was like banging our head against a wall. Work with your team...yes?

I actually work at a Gamestop where I live (Greenville, South Carolina) and I reserved a copy of the Collector's Edition through my store, and we got it today (Friday, April 10th) which I was surprised to see. I picked it up no problem. As for a "street date" of April 14th, I think that's just Stardock's intended release, because when I reserved it through our computers there was so street date for it, which when that happens we are told to just sell it when we get it, so it is true when people say retailers may have it and are selling it. But on a side note, I just made a post in the forums regarding a huge tech problems I'm having with it, if anyone could take the time to read and attempt to assist me, I would appreciate it tons.

Yeah please read my earlier post... I talked to the assistant manager at my local Gamestop... I see them 5 days a week( I work in the mall with them in Dallas). We discussed at lenght the fact that the "official date" was the 14th... He even checked both his computer and the system wide coporate emails that cover things like this... NO WHERE did he find it street dated so he sold me my Collectors Edition. Further evidence that Gamestop didnt believe there was a street date is the fact that I recieved a phone call informing me that my preorder would be ready on 4/10/09 for pickup... Those calls are automated from Gamestop headquarters... So its not the guys at the stores that messed up if anyone did..........

Sure hopw I dont get punished for getting and playing the game.... That would suck.

Not the best retailer in my personal opinion, but gamers in the US have little choice otherwise as far as physical game vendors go. Best Buy and Wal-Mart, so called competitors that keeps gamestop-eb games from being a monopoly are both jokes and usually never get games on release dates, if they get them all.

What we need is another "real" company that focuses on vending games that won't get bought out by Gamestop like Rhino Games did. =\

Maybe for SD's next big release Gamestop's shipment could arrive a little late. Even could miss the release date by a day

I do miss Rhino Games. Haven't been to any game stores except small local independents since their demise. Support local or support the company that brought you the product, but not greedy corps that think they make their own rules.