hi revenent... unfortunately, you pose a very subjective question... ultimately, its entirely up to you, but given Stardocks trackrecord, you can rest asssured that they will be patching the game rather feverishly... there is a 0-day patch (tomorrow) i believe...

im somewhat in your boat - im waiting until the game is out for a week before making my purchase, and will get the (hopefully) cumulative updates at that time... will be the longest freaking week, but will be well worth it...

Wait for at least 2 major content patches, so 60 days. If Stardock holds their promises, it should start becoming very interesting around then.

This game is so much fun you should play it if you have it. Sure it's going to have some niggles but the experience getting there is half the fun. Combat is kewl and the ai is acceptable so far and I'm still on normal difficulty. Try not to read too much into the naysayers they always over react and blow things up bigger than they really are over just the little things. Trust me I'm one of the worlds worst when a game doesn't play like I thought it would. But, I give great credit to Stardock and Brad et al. I know they will fix everything that is broken so why complain? I can understand telling what's broken but don't adlib with game sucks isn't worth the money blah blah blah give it a score of 5.0 etc. Too many trolls can ruin a great experience.

1 thing i dont get

what are we playing righ tnow?

not the day0?

still the gold of couple of weeks ago?

I'd recommend getting it now, or waiting a couple of days for the stability issues to be fixed. But this game is a lot of fun. Please also keep in mind that many here in the forums where beta testers and we are used to looking critically at the game to provide feedback. Got to say this is the first game that I sat down to play with pen and paper for that reason.

Hey, it's just a game.  Wash that taste out of your mouth and go have fun.  I would if I could.  I have to wait for the LE to arrive in the mail days from now.

Well, there'll be a patch on the official release day (tomorrow) that fixes stuff. See what people think of the bug level after that comes out.

Oh so this isnt the day 0 version? Lol

I wondering why it is available today on August 23

I wanted to wait a bit to purchase the game, at least till after the day 0 patch. However I just could not stop myself last night. I got it installed and played it for about 3 hrs before I realized the time and the fact my body started shaking due to lack of sleep. I cant wait to start playing today but I got some IRL things to do first.

I do wish there was more of a tutorial, but I did kinda jump into the deep end by starting a sandbox game right away. I still dont know how to generate enough money but I got plenty of other resources.

At this point it is way too early to tell how long Elemental will hold my interest, mainly because Civ V is right around the corner. But even if I stop playing when Civ V comes out I know if I go back 6 months latter the game will have alot of new stuff to play with.

Ditto!

I'm really looking forward to Civ V.  I hope my expectations aren't too high for that game.  For the next few months it's going to be tough choosing between these two cause they'll fill two really distinct game types for me.  One being the "historical" the other being the "fantasy" civilization / kingdom builder.  With Elemental having the adventuring with quests and even overall campaigns, I think in the end I'll find myself coming back to it.  Especially if the community embraces the modding capability and starts churning out top notch mods and content.

I think waiting until tomorrow may be the best idea, hopefully can resist booting it up tonight lol.  I do still have some more Laura Croft and the Guardians of Light to play

Is there a patch log that details some of the improvements/fixes we can expect?  If it's nothing significant I'll might play tonight...but if it's a pretty comprehensive patch I'll hold off...