They will take your order now and not bill until the first beta release becomes available, so you have from now until beta 1 to change your mind.

(I saw some chatter about an oopsie billing or two, but I think that's been fixed at the online store and the people who answer sales@stardock.com are always helpful.)

not preordered, but going to monitor the forums for the next year and a half hopefully. will preorder when beta is available.

Oh yeah.  Definately in.  It was hard to stop playing Galciv 2 long enough to order, but its been done .

My friends and I still play Age of Wonders Shadow magic in a league, and all of us think those discs are gonna get dusty as soon as the beta hits.

Is there a way to know if we preordered in time to get in on the initial beta?  I'm willing to submit a resume as a die hard stardock fan!

Count me in. Last game in development I was this obsessed with was Vanguard and that turned out to be a bitter disappointment, an awesome success and again a bitter disappointment (in number of players, it's an awesome game and deserves a million or three but has a tiny fraction of that).

And Elemental... has all the makings of a truly awesome game without's VG's downfall. The investors appear to be coding it lol

I ordered as soon as I could with my last remaining tokens a few months back. Today I actually found time to update my two machines to Impulse. Very nice looking app for sure! Picked up all my TGN games no problem. Only one not listed is Elemental, but I guess that's due to it being so far off yet. My tokens are gone though on Stardock Central, so I guess I've "paid" for Elemental already. No idea how the money transfers are handled.Will likely get entrancement for SOASE through Impulse soon to see how it works!

Looking forward to tomorrow when we'll be able to say that we'll play Elemental: War of Magic this year

Yep Me too! Now for the wait but hopefully a Beta very soon!

Pre-ordered. As a long time fan of MoM and fantasy 4X in general, E:WoM looks very promising.  I played the GalCiv2 beta from very early on and was very appreciative of Stardock's efforts to make good use of user feedback and make smart changes prior to release.  Hoping for more of the same with Elemental and looking forward to beta.

Oh yes, I'm in too!

I've loved thier other games and just the tidbits they have given out I'm going to love this one too!

I am an old MoM fan and very much looking forward to beta.  I have already recruited 3 friends for online games.

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I never preorder games, except for Stardock games that is. In fact I've been playing games for 15+ years and the first game I ever preordered was Twilight of the Arnor after I picked up Galatic Civilizations 2 (gold pack I think, the one with vanilla and the first expansion) on a whim and got hooked. I had never actually heard of Stardock before that but now I've purchased every one of their major releases since then(Sins, Demigod, etc.)

Allowing paying customers to get into betas is really a great idea and I have to wonder why other compnaies don't do the same. Because of that policy I have preordered Demigod as well and just a few days ago I preordered Elemental. I would have preordered it back when it was announced but somehow I missed the fact that it had been announced until a few days ago(even though I've been looking forward to it when it was still known as not-MOM). At any rate I'll be sticking around for the long haul, although I'll probably be lurking mostly at least until the beta comes out. At which point I'm sure I'll start posting a lot.

I'm creeped out by being able to give exact years worth of play.   I've been playing games for 19 years I recon  (said like an old man).  I can only estimate since I was 3 years old at the time.      I feel like such a little kid having been too young to remember when I started.

I do remember the fault that really got me into gaming and computers.   my mother taught me how to get to pac-man all by myself (this was impressive since I couldn't even read yet.  it was during pre-school)  (I also remember how I couldn't believe when I saw a computer that didn't go to a dos prompt first and at least require the typing of 'win' to reach windows 3.1 )

So I guess neither of you played the original master of magic?  (I got my copy about 16 years ago, which I assume most people did)

Faugh, if this game's audience turns out to be even roughly similar to the one for GalCiv2, there will be plenty of us far older than you twenty-somethings. If you want to see some interesting anecodtal data about age and interest in a 4X game, read the How old are you thread at GC2.