Have you tried play.com ?

Not sure if i preorder now if i would get it by release, i will send them a message and see what they say, otherwise i'm probably better off getting the digital version.

The question to ask is:
Will you get time to play it on Friday?

Is says "In Stock" as opposed to Pre-order, therefore I thought it's already being delivered from play.com ...

Hmm.. I just got totally butchered by a bear (barely scratched him even with a sneak attack) whilst near the start of the game there was a bear I took down in two hits.
So either level scaling is in effect, or that first one was a specially scripted bear.
I think it might be the second one though since a NPC that was nearby at the time claimed bears were fierce.
No more crashes since the update, so I guess they did something right.
So far it's been like playing a fancy Oblivion expansion.. which is ok I suppose.
The world is still pretty empty, but I do like the viking setting more than Oblivion's and some areas are gorgeous.
I kind of like the whole build your character as you go approach as well, now you're worrying about how to build your character ingame instead of at the beginning.
It sucks that you can't skip the intro (as far as I can tell, maybe that was fixed by the patch as well) though, so you'll have to watch that whole thing everytime you start a new character.
And there might be less skills than before, but there are still plenty of skills and each skill has a 'perk tree' associated with it to increase them even further.

6 More hours until it unlocks, i can't wait :3

Ive been playing it since 3pm

:-P

Pretty stable so far. I like it.

I have it preloaded, but I still must wait 10 hours.

Luckily Taekwondo runs late tonight, so when I get back from class at 11:00 and shower I can play and probably keep my roommate up all night because my Friday classes start at 1:40.

I've been playing Stonekeep in the meantime...forgot how awesome that game was.

A friend of mine set up an australian VPN and is playing already <w<

*dies*

After playing it, it's hard to see why people are so anxious to get it.

You mean, you're not excited at all?

Cut a hole in your chair, put a bucket underneath, and now you have your own port-a-potty. You're welcome.

I've had it for two days and played roughly two hours and I was home all day, both days.
It's alright, but it's not that exciting.

To anyone who's already playing it, an important question: Can you roll around the snow buttnaked (in the game)?

/edit: clarification added