Got this email today from Amazon.com... anyone have a clue as to how close to true the release date is?

(cut and pasted from email)

Dear Amazon.com Customer,

We've noticed that customers who have purchased or rated Dark Heresy RPG: Disciples of the Dark Gods by Alan Bligh have also purchased Dark Heresy RPG: Ascension by Fantasy Flight Games. For this reason, you might like to know that Dark Heresy RPG: Ascension will be released on December 14, 2009. You can pre-order yours at a savings of $16.98 by following the link below.
Dark Heresy RPG: Ascension
Fantasy Flight Games
List Price: $49.95
Price: $32.97
You Save: $16.98 (34%)

Release Date: December 14, 2009

-Cynr

That would be fantastic, but we havent even seen a designer diary for it, so Im not getting me hopes up!

Amazon Germany sent me the following today:

Guten Tag,

wir bedauern, dass wir eine Verzögerung bei Ihrer Amazon.de-Bestellung ankuendigen müssen.

Leider könen wir den oder die folgenden Artikel aus Ihrer Amazon.de-Bestellung (# 302-2994132-1838740) vom Juli 21 2009 nicht wie vorgesehen verschicken:

Fantasy Flight Games "Dark Heresy Ascension"
Voraussichtliches Lieferdatum: Dezember 17 2009

But I doubt that I will get it on the 17th of december. I haven't even gotten The Radical's Handbook from them yet.

If there is one lesson we should have learned, then that you should try to predict a book if FFG didn´t showed you a picture of it being inside of one of their warehouses

Cynr said:

I wouldn't get too excited, FFG only just added Ascension to the Upcoming page, and its showing as In Development! Amazon can go a bit awry sometimes - they've actually cancelled my Radical's Handbook pre-order stating its not going to be available, even though the local game shop has it coming in this week (alebit for a horribly inflated price which I'm not prepared to pay). No doubt it will re-appear in a day or two.

On the plus side, the second part of the Haarlock's Legacy is showing as On the Boat, as is the Rogue Trader GM's kit!

Amazon has never gotten a single DH or RT book release date right. I finally stopped preordering from and preordered from my local game store. Strangely my local store has the books the day before everyone else. (Maybe the books are shipping from west coast or Reno.)

Amazon can be a bit of a neccessary evil for me. The variation in pricing between Amazon and our local game store is huge.

Take the Rogue Trader core rulebook. I can buy the book from Amazon for £31, but our local game shop is charging £40 for it. I don't mind a couple of quid difference, but nearly ten?? Again, Creatures Anathema at our local shop is £28, but its only £17 on Amazon. Evey single Dark Heresy and Rogue Trader book is a magnitude cheaper.

I know we're supposed to support our local bricks and mortar stores, but I'm not THAT charitable! I can wait a couple of weeks for Amazon to stock the book (they were actually right on time with Rogue Trader) for those kinds of savings.

Well Amazon only takes like a 20% profit margin on any books it sells. FLGS need to sell it for a bigger margin to survive...

But yea, prices like that are just hard to beat.

My game store gives a 10% discount for pre-orders.