It's 11pm here and just woke up a few hours ago, so i'm one of those who won't be sleeping.

Just as long as they make sure to package all the files in the version they make available, not like beta 4

Not if your flight has been delayed because of some annoying people that blocked everything (or because of some annoying retailers that broke the street date).

Frogboy I live out in Brighton and can drive in to help if you need extra ppl

If we was in the beta (and thus preordered), we are garenteed an early version? Just asking i have to go to work for a few hours, but it would be nice to play when i gets home. 

Yes Beta gets it first (But hopefully they realize its really late now and let preorders get it too)

Man, this thread is entertaining I wish we had a forum devoted just to the people freaking out, so they could feed on each other's rage and just completely go nuclear. 

Would solve the problem of finding the best way to pass the time for the next few hours/day/2 days

Oooh did someone say pizza?  I need pizza.  Give it

Frogboy has been saying for a week it'd be an early release, and he said on Friday I believe that it would be this morning / mid-day. I'd consider him saying they'll do it to be sufficient for a reasonable expectation it'll happen, just like me saying to my boss I'll go in on Monday gives them a reasonable expectation I'll be in work on Monday. I'm not contractually obliged to be in work on Monday, but I reckon if I don't go in or at least let her know I won't be in she's got reasonable grounds to be upset even without having anything in writing saying this would be the case.

 Or in other words, if I tell you I'm going to do something and then I don't do it you'd be reasonably expected to feel some measure of disappointment because there's a breach of trust, not because you have an overblown sense of entitlement. Now if Frogboy had stated they were actually just going to sit on it until release day and people started demanding it be released immediately you might have an entitlement issue, but complaining that someone did not do something they said they would is just plain old human nature.

what if you told your boss you'd be in to work on monday, but on the way to work your car exploded with you in it and you were in the intensive burn unit at the hospital. The doctors called to tell her you would still be in to work that day, but it might be a little bit late.

Would your boss still be upset?

What if you told your boss you were going to call in sick because you want to play Elemental? What then?

Well, that just shows the one instance. I like to give them the benefit of the doubt and think they gave him another box with the 360 in it or something, because if they did, then that would've been a great little joke, imo. If they didn't, that's damn harsh.