You'll be able to download on the 13th if you preordered it from Stardock, supposedly. It may be the 14th, still up in the air about that. And no, you can not download ahead of time. I was upset about that too, it's a bit unusual for digital download on a game release, but I've been told Impulse uses a very good infrastructure.

Unless you are using dial-up, you should have the game installed and good to go within an hour, two at most.

The cd key will be emailed to you. The game is probably 8 gigs uncompressed, I'm told the download itself is 3 gigs though.

oh ok thats cool then, thanks for your help

The main issue is that your not going to get your key till the release date, b/c stardock hasn't charged you for the game (and will not untill the game is released).

So , from what I understand. When you bought the game, you are asked to put in an email address, make sure that the email address you used when you bought the game is the same address you use to signin to Impulse.

Then on the 13th or 14th you will have access to Demigod to d/l and play.

Cheers

thank you all for clearing that up for me

You can move an CD key to another account. If you're friend creates an account he can add one of the accounts now associated with you're account. First remove it from youre's then send it to him.