Good to hear that it is finally released. I have already bought diplomacy, but I am not going to download and play diplomacy until the German version is released. Any idea when that will be? Feel free to take enough time to perfect it, though....I'm very patient. Looking forward to it, though the TEC and the Vasari may not be looking forward to me playing any more 

When do you think we will be able to order the $5 boxed sets?

Will it come with an updated printed manual? 

Edit: Nothing on this yet? 

@ boshimi336

Are you asking if Stardock will ship us hard copies of the two expansions only?  If you are I completely agree with you because I prefer having the game in my hands compared to having it on a server in a place many miles away.

Me too.  (Actually, I mostly want the new expansion manual.)

Note on the PDF:  I didn't see anything on the Starbase killer ships in the ships section.  Is it elsewhere, or excluded?

-Twilight Storm

I'm hoping that they won't maintain the price at $40 for it, permanently, and that they will consider the possibility that there may be market elasticity and that they could earn more profit by selling more copies at a lower price.  I often browse over games at Walmart, Target, and Meijer (local area superstore) and see one year old games still priced at $40 when they can be had for $20 online and wonder whether they are at all aware that their prices are a joke.  I hope the same thing doesn't happen with Sins and Trinity.  Perhaps it's time for Sins to drop to $10 (suck people in, let them like the game and want to purchase the expansions) and for Trinity to drop to $25.

At least those of us who play it online and hope for an influx of new online players sure would like to see increased sales.

<Edit> It looks like Sins itself is no longer available for purchase on Impulse; only Trinity.

I don't know what comes in the retail package, but the game itself consists of the original Sins, the Entrenchment expansion, and the Diplomacy expansion.  I'm guessing that it doesn't have much of a manual.  You'll learn the game through a built-in tutorial that will walk you through the basics.  At least the original Sins has that.  You should probably run through that a couple times.  Also, it doesn't have a campaign; it's more like Civilization or Alpha Centauri in those regards--you get a map and your goal is to conquer it.

Can you cancel the order and get your money back?  If so why not just buy it over Impulse or off of eBay or Amazon?

Yeah, cancel it and hit Impulse.  They get more of your money for the direct purchase, and you get it faster.

If you have registered it on impulse, you can reinstall it on a new computer, kinda like Steam.

???

Impulse is a software platform, like Steam. It does not host your games, UNLIKE Steam.

register your game code with impulse. Then you can reinstall it on a separate machine with just the use of the internet.

Am I missing something? Is that not what you asked?

My question still stands ... where is my boxed content that I already purchased?!