Do you want a good game with fewer bugs or a sloppy game with lots of them?

No one promised it on anyone's birthday.  Just look forward to it (but a date would be nice).

Please keep in  mid too that Stardock is "The Other Guy"--they aren't EA with a multimillion dollar development pool and fifty prgrammers working all at once on it.  When they become gaming monoliths we can start to gripe

I liked Q4 2011 a lot better...

mmmmmm

Sins with a dash of Titans and corvettes and a side of Rebellion.

They may do beta 1st December and release the game next year about March.

Would make sense for a debug beta test turn around time. I know there were lots of debug versions coming out with all the other releases. 

And as I have just found a good group to SoSE with on a regular basis I am content to play this and wait till rebellion is ready to play. 

It's never boring. Come online and see where all the fun is at. It adds a whole new dimension to the game, playing against other humans!

(If you're intimidated by the learning curve, feel free to talk to me, I'll help out as much as I can)

Sounds great, please take the time to make it what you want to release.  Sword of the Stars 2 is the current example of what not to do so I'm glad to see Stardock taking a better approach.

Hmm, going to give gemini wars a try until this is out. Hopefully we'll get a complete expansion that upgrades every aspect of the game, lets not forget the graphics engine. Also are there any screenshots released yet? Or maybe a trailer because I haven't found anything.

So what was the deal the Diplomacy and it's bugs?  Rebellion will have them also so expect April 2012 and then expect September 2012 for it to be stable and moddable.

We're trying to time out the marketing stuff to coincide best with the intended release date. We don't want to drop a bunch of details right now when there's lots of new games coming out and the holidays approaching, cause only real fans like you guys are paying attention.

Later this month I will be starting up a dev series about the factions in rebellion, why they split, and the titans they're bringing to the war.  Should run for a good long while with lots of screenshots.

Well damn.  Nothing like a dev outright saying this stuff, thanks.  I'll definitely be checking those out.

Can't wait!

That sounds smart.  You might as well wait until mid-January at the earliest to begin the publicity campaign.

How about you spoil us real fans now, and then re-release everything later? Non-real fans won't know that it's a re-release because they'll be distracted by all the new games coming out and the holidays.