IIRC they said there wouldn't be a retail release in Europe, so at least at the moment the only option is to digitally download (although you can get a hardcopy shipped to you via Impulse too, but you'll need to add in $10 postage) or see if you can get it imported (Amazon might be a good bet).

All right, thank you for the quick response.

I glanced through some import options, which would turn out to become very expensive, and not really an option. Any chance of getting the game on Steam in the future? I am not really a fan of using a multitude of DD venues, and would rather stick to just using Steam due to several reason. The quality of their service simply is pristine in comparison to any alternative I have ever seen.

Jag gillar Steam, men Impulse är faktiskt ännu bättre, då man inte behöver köra spelet genom det om man inte önskar. Dessutom gör ju Stardock världens bästa spel och Impulse är deras egen. Skaffa Impulse, men stäng förslagsvis av autorur.

Tomas

It will not be coming to Steam.  As Kryo mentioned, it would be recommended to download from Impulse since retail won't be available in your region.

Okay, that is a shame. I might just have to sit out on this one, then. The lack of a retail option or a solid digital download is a deal breaker, I am afraid. Too bad, it looked like a pretty awesome game.

Still, I wish you best of luck with the release, and hope you will offer additional venues of distribution in the future.

"Solid digital download" = Steam? Without even trying anything else? Then again, I've never gotten monotheism either.

Besides, it's not as if my apple tree bore TBSes this season.

I do not like digital downloads one bit. The only reason I can accept using Steam when there are no retail alternatives is that it is huge. The community is large enough that I feel confident in that an eventual problem will be solved, if not by their own support team, by someone in the community. I have used a couple of other digital download systems on occasion, and found the experience horrible. At this point I have no desire to try Impulse, I am not convinced that the service is good enough. Stardock does not get a  customer, I do not get the game I want. Everybody loses.

Even if the boxed copy was in retail in Europe you would still need to use Impulse for installing patches.

You can be pretty sure that if there were any issues with the download system then they would be fixed pretty quickly as every single Elemental customer who will be installing updates will be using Impulse regardless of how they purchased it (retail vs online).