I might consider an upgrade to retail box. But only, and this might sound odd, if I have option to pay for the added cost (and perhaps a few dollars more). It's unclear from your posting if there will be a charge for the upgrade. Depending on how WOM FE goes, I'd been considering since late 2010 to purchase a "dummy" copy of FE anyway. Just cuz I think you may have earned the revenue. It might instead, be a better option for me to buy an upgrade to retail box if that puts a little extra money in your coffers. And the USPS could use the added revenue from shipping. 

There would be a nominal cost for shipping and such.

You can gift items in our store.  Digitally you just need their email address.

Ordered. Soon my voyeurism of having to watch vids of FE will end

Frogboy, I think he is concerned because when we go to the link to purchase another copy it says this below, and as such it wont let us buy another copy for a friend.

Quote below is from http://elementalgame.com/fallen-enchantress/purchase while logged in on my account

Thank you for purchasing Elemental: War of Magic!

You're eligible to recieve Fallen Enchantress for FREE! We'll send you an email informing you of when you have access to the BETA. The BETA will also be automatically added to your downloads page when it's available to you.

If I pre-order the game, will I get immediate access to the beta?

What are the advantages of pre-ordering a digital download?

Ah, I see.  I'll check on this.

I want to get a copy for a girl gamer I know. She has so many Twitter and facebook friends, it would really help sell the game if she liked it. I will of course wait till the game is really good before I give it to her. 

um...

Elemental - Fallen Enchantress Upgrade (Digital) [PO]

that sounds well strange.... what upgrade? po = pre-order?

(ye gods.. how do you paste as plain text? had to manually strip the stupid thing. hate fancy editors)

oddly... can't find no email... but managed to see it in my account? (oh.. and commodo is as usual complaining about unsigned file...)

There's not going to be a collectors edition for FE, just a standard boxed version.

There will be a boxed and digital version available.  I don't have exact details, but there would be a nominal fee to upgrade to the boxed version.

Just an update that you can now order the box upgrade, and purchase as a gift.

I was an early buyer (i think i even pre-ordered??) of WoM, yet it claims no such thing on that page. Just gives me the normal "pre-order now for 39.99 (or what the price was) and get in beta 2!".

Then again, the whole Gamestop buying Impulse thing messed up my accounts a bit it seems.
I can download Elemental and my copies of Sins + expansions & Galciv2 + expansions in the Gamestop Impulse client, but if i log in to the Stardock Store website, an expansion (Sins Diplomacy) is missing and Elemental is nowhere to be found either! Yet they appear in Impulse..

Furthermore, i still can not login to the overlay thing inside Elemental (the thing similar to the steam overlay), it keeps telling me i have no registered copy of Elemental. So obviously there was some shenannigans when Gamestop bought Impulse, and not all the game registrations properly transfered?

Any ideas, stardock devs?

My stardock store account is tied to the email baleurion@hotmail.com and my Impulse account as well (and my username Baleur), if that helps a quick trackdown.

Hey Frogboy Nice to see you're still around chating.

First of all I want to say I'm glad this is moving forward. 
Still a bit scholded from my previous experience with you guys and not quite finishing E:WoM I think that I have by now forgiven you!
I'm glad you are listening to the fans and in active discussion with them and it seems that this time the project will go from start to finish!

I think I'll pre-order my copy (us poor sobs who ordered it to late don't get it for free ).
Just please don't screw us over again!

Although even if you do I am sure that you will inspire future game developers with your authentic and unique gameplay ideas and concepts. 
Regardless of the previous games finish it was still a very brave and interesting step to take.


The best of luck with this project. 

Boris