Dangit. I decided to spend that weekend in B'ham. I will have to wait til monday to play. #PoorPlanning

Yeah I am waiting to see if there's any discount vouchers this weekend to pick it up, so far the best I've seen is 20% off from GMG.

Either way I will be picking it up too.

Going to actually try to hold off on it a bit.

Not to see if it is good, I am sure I will like it. I have a few too many games that I haven't played at this point.

Will get it at Christmas though...

My advice: wait 3-4 mo ths for the price to drop, for Egosoft to patch the inevitable bugs, and for modders to begin tweaking it for the better

I have it preordered from Game (physical copy) as I can't wait for things and never learn my lesson on day one releases lol

Looking forward to it as the other X games always felt so 'dead', this one with the walking around stations and ship makes it come to life.

Yeah, I don't mind paying $50 for what looks like an X game that will be dumbed down and interactive enough for me. Cheaper than a new console game anyway.
I just hope I'm in the mood to play it on release day. LOL

I preordered and consider it a safe preorder just based on how much I enjoyed the previous ones and the details of how they've improved it this go around (read dumbed it down so people like me can actually play some of the advanced stuff besides trading).

Plus we know that the devs will keep supporting and enhancing it, and we know modders will do their part too, so lots of potential there with a safe past track record.

£40 to pre-order this game? I'll wait for the eventual sale. I have enough of XTC and XAP to keep me going. I just watched current reviews of Rome 2 and I'm thinking if that game bombed after so much success, well, I'm not really going to lose anything if I play Rebirth a few months down the road.

Really envious of the guys that will get to play from Day 1, but the game has also gone in a few directions I'm not too keen about. Most blatant is the single-ship-only decision.... I'm still not sure how I feel about that. One big attraction for me for games like MWO, EVE Online, and X-series is being able to save up for and buy and fly those cool-looking ships... if I'm stuck in the same ride the whole time, I just don't know.

I have to say, even though I've loved all of the previous x series games, I'm a bit nervous about this one. First off, walking around miles and miles of space station looking for a particular bland npc doesn't sound all that appealing. Also, the long range radar video has me scratching my head. Why shoot cargo containers to get to the contents? In all the previous games, you just picked up the container. Why does your long range scanner melt down if you use it too long? Did they lose timer or temperature sensor technology in the future? And like Ice said, the single ship thing could get old quick. Not a good thing in a game with hundreds of hours of play time.

I hope my fears are unfounded, since I pre-ordered the game the second I seen it come up on steam.

Yep, forgot about that "walking around" bit. I mean it's cool, sure, but on my 10th visit to Station X to meet Trader A, I just want to trade, not spend 2 minutes walking through the station to get to the guy. I LOL'ed at one review wherein he complained of the time taken to get from one sector to another in XTC/XAP and praised the new "highway concept" of X Rebirth.... I'd rather travel one sector that way and have the current trading menu as it is than "save time" with "highways" but lose it in stations having to walk about all the time.

Has there been any video of this special ship? I'd love to see it on it's basic form and then on its various upgradable modes. As a person who's built up a small empire in XTC, I can't see why I'd like to have just one ship. Even with the cool new cockpit in Rebirth, I'm sure it'll get boring quite quickly. As a person who is just trying out pew-pew-pew action in XTC, I can't see why I'd like to have just one ship. Even with the cool upgradeable ship in Rebirth, I'm sure a jack of all trades is a master of none.

I'd love to be wrong, please somebody tell me how I can be wrong!

I'm the opposite, I can't wait to walk around every station looking for people rather than have those horrible menus again. One of the reasons the X games felt dead was the menus.

Looks like X-Rebirth is pre-loading from Steam now, it is getting closer to launch

Email from Egosoft just came in with a link to the trailer for the Collectors edition, love the music

Didn't they say you could skip the walking on stations in favor of the regular comms? It may end up being like Skyrim, where it's more fun for some to hoof it, while others use the fast travel. Or after the amusement wears off you have the shortcut. Options are good! At least it will give some life to the other side of the comms, you'll know what's in there.
I wonder what kind of mods we'll see? In Skyrim I LOVE the one that adds more foot traffic to the roads. I'd like to see a crowded station full of all kinds of things going on B5 style.

The only thing that might bother me is the single ship, but the modular thing worked for Darkstar One due to the extremes you could take the ship to.

I really like the look of the Albion Skunk so just having that ship doesn't bother me and it can be upgraded too. I am sure there will be mods out to give more ships, hopefully a Firefly

After AC "beta" release, i look forward to this even more! It's the first game in years that i wait with such anticipation and promises the 1.0 release instead of these early-access pre-alpha crowdfunding versions.

Is anyone else pre-loading? Mine doesn't show anything yet.

Oops! I didn't realize you had to manually select it to do so. It's pre-loading now. Thanks Alicatt for the reminder.

Dare we dream? LOL
After 7 years working on it, maybe the expansions will be in the form of specialized ships for specific playthroughs? No telling what they may have in mind.

I'm going to re-watch Firefly before Rebirth is released

I've preloaded last night on steam, had originally preordered the box version but it was looking like I wasn't going to get it on Friday so cancelled and paid £5 more on steam. Big kid lol

Wow Mace,£39.99? I have a real problem paying that much for any game nowadays.I had to coax the wallet open to pay £35 for BF4.

Decisions,decisions.....

As I said, big kid lol