I haven't seen enough to merit a preorder, other wise I would.

No.

Same here, I want to hear more about the improvement to ICO before I consider pre-ordering. I remember the bad old days where it was nearly impossible to get a game without someone either minidumping, getting disconnected or the game was out of sync. The game has improved a lot since than, but I do want to know more before pre-ordering.

I do hope there is some more info before promotion runs out. For me major thing which will decide if I buy game or not is late game lag and smurf solutions for on-line players.

I don't really see a reason to buy something that has almost no informations how will it look and what issues will it have,

If you guys end promotion before data is released you force us to buy "air" or pay higher price later on. I think that this move if it happens will alienate a lot of loyal customers. 

In my opinion promotion should last at least until first week or two into beta. But that is just my opinion.

I'm sad to see that the $10 off promotion will not be permanent or at least available for the first several month's after Rebellion's release.  After all, I already own all of the previous games and to some extent part of the $40 price encompasses IP for the earlier versions of the game.  Why should I have pay what someone who never purchased any of the earlier games will pay?

For me the biggest issue is ICO activity.  Will people play Rebellion in online multiplayer PvP?  Given the game's current amount of online multiplayer PvP activity, I don't think I'd want to spend $30 or $40 on it.  (I probably will in time because I'm a sucker for this game.)

I would like to have seen some more content before I buy, but whatever, time to bust out the wallet.

I will probably purchase it as well but the thing for me is 

As it stands now they are basically selling something that has no information what it is. I do think that it's not good practice to say buy now (when you don't know what you buying) or wait and buy at higher price later (make informative decision before you buy). You could look at it as if you want to know what product you are buying you will be paying premium.

With my opinions I'm not flaming stardock. Support they shown to SINS so far is far beyond any what other software companies have done. 

There's more to it then simple little upgrades.  Granted we know next to nothing about what has been planned for it, but then again, I've paid a grand total of $60 to date and pre ordered rebellion and am still happy considering other games that I'm a much bigger fan of, for example Command and Conquer, Supreme Commander, and Starcraft, their most recent releases cost that much, and their expansions do pretty much only the same thing that entrenchment and diplomacy did, add more units and whatnot, and would cost me another $20 to $60 on top of the original.  So the way I'm looking at it, I'm already ahead of the game having already seen two expansions for the same cost of their original titles only.

At least I'm not being promised the ultimate gaming experience and then being let down.  As my opinion and input matters to the fine folks at Ironclad and Stardock and I have many opportunities to influence the future of the franchise, I will be taking it's success or failure a bit more personally then I would with any other game I've ever owned.  Now really...  What's the price for that kind of an experience with a game?  I don't hear EA making that kind of a promise.

I can't speak for C&C or Supreme commander, because I haven't played them... But SC1's Brood War expansion, while it did add just a handful of new units, it also provided a lengthy single player campaign. SC2's Heart of the Swarm will do the same thing, and I suspect it'll be set for a $20-$30 pricepoint.

It's true: Ironclad isn't promising the "ultimate gaming experience." With Diplomacy, quite literally, what they said was what we got. There was no false advertising. Not worth the money IMO, but it was honest. I don't expect Rebellion to be any different.

Diplomacy and Trinity are the same thing.

Its stardock, they aren't the bastards that other companies are!

case and point, those who bought elemental before a certain date will get to have the remade game for free.

When I heard that I figured there were some smart companies other then blizzard out there after all.

I really haven't seen anything that would warrant Rebellion being a $40 purchase. There's some new big ship, some new presumably little ship, and some "rebel" mechanic. There's also the artist's rendition of the big ship. Annnnd that's it.

$40 is a full game purchase cost. Based on what little we know, I have no reason to believe that there is an entire game's worth of new content for existing Trinity owners. I got Dawn of War II: Retribution for $30 on release day and as near as I can it came with more new content for existing customers than this will. Perhaps if Stardock or Ironclad were willing to actually discuss the product they're expecting customers to plunk down cash for sight-unseen, I might have enough faith that my purchase would be worth it, but as it stands I'm only seeing as much new content as Entrenchment + Diplomacy, and that's only $20.

This price just smacks of Stardock leaning on SoaSE loyalists to make up funds for the disastrous release of Elemental. I'm not sure ANY Stardock game will be worth the cost for a couple years as they bilk their loyal customers to make up for that.