Starfinder Core Rulebook

The anticipation is killing me

so if you only pre-ordered online, is it shipping today? or on the 17th? i pre-ordered on july 10th

If you got your authorization e-mail between Thursday and today, your shipment should occur some time between today and August 18th per this thread.

*waiting intensifies some more*

If you got your authorization e-mail between Thursday and today, your shipment should occur some time between today and August 18th per this thread.

*waiting intensifies some more*

>_>

<_<

{quietly moves Rysky's order to the end of the queue}

David knott 242 wrote:

If you got your authorization e-mail between Thursday and today, your shipment should occur some time between today and August 18th per this thread.

Rysky the Dark Solarion wrote:

*waiting intensifies some more*

>_>

<_<

{quietly moves Rysky's order to the end of the queue}

*slowly narrows eyes at the Pugwumpus*

Hunt, the PugWumpus wrote:

David knott 242 wrote:

If you got your authorization e-mail between Thursday and today, your shipment should occur some time between today and August 18th per this thread.

Rysky the Dark Solarion wrote:

*waiting intensifies some more*

>_>

<_<

{quietly moves Rysky's order to the end of the queue}

*slowly narrows eyes at the Pugwumpus*

*narrows eyes at everyone, waiting patiently for his pre-order, as well.* The wait is killing me. lol. I mean, I can guess that it's killing you guys, as well! *sips his soda*

Kandiell wrote:

so if you only pre-ordered online, is it shipping today? or on the 17th? i pre-ordered on july 10th

If you got your authorization e-mail between Thursday and today, your shipment should occur some time between today and August 18th per this thread.

i dont think i got an authorization email? double checked my spam folder and everything. as much as i enjoy their products, i find paizo to be very unclear when it comes to things like this. i pre-ordered july 10th and now ill get my copy after the books hit the shelves? why did i pay 50$ of shipping then? lol

David knott 242 wrote:

Kandiell wrote:

so if you only pre-ordered online, is it shipping today? or on the 17th? i pre-ordered on july 10th

If you got your authorization e-mail between Thursday and today, your shipment should occur some time between today and August 18th per this thread.

i dont think i got an authorization email? double checked my spam folder and everything. as much as i enjoy their products, i find paizo to be very unclear when it comes to things like this. i pre-ordered july 10th and now ill get my copy after the books hit the shelves? why did i pay 50$ of shipping then? lol

If you didn't get an authorization e-mail, then something went wrong with your order. You should start a thread in the Customer Service section about it.

FYI: I haven't gotten my shipping notice yet.

Cheers,

-Skeld

... got me excited there.

You only get shipping notices at this time if you are a subscriber, not for normal preorders. All non-subscription orders are filled at street date time.

FYI: I haven't gotten my shipping notice yet.

Cheers,

-Skeld

That‘s highly unusual!

I just got this email titled "Pre-Order 66." Should I open it?

You only get shipping notices at this time if you are a subscriber, not for normal preorders. All non-subscription orders are filled at street date time.

Wait... are you saying that preorders don't ship until street date, meaning that you get it later as a result of preordering than if you went to your local store?

Or am I misunderstanding you?

I do know that if you have at least one subscription, non-subscription items that come out at the same time as items from your subscription do go out with your subscription shipment. I have never been in a position where I pre-ordered something with no active subscriptions, so I am not sure what happens in that case.

I think I remember a post from vic that preorders are also sent out at this time.

Note that the only reason not to subscribe is if you don't want the PDF. (That I can think of, anyway).

My order is 'pending' and not 'downloading' so I've clearly got the wrong ing.

Kandiell wrote:

David knott 242 wrote:

Kandiell wrote:

so if you only pre-ordered online, is it shipping today? or on the 17th? i pre-ordered on july 10th

If you got your authorization e-mail between Thursday and today, your shipment should occur some time between today and August 18th per this thread.

i dont think i got an authorization email? double checked my spam folder and everything. as much as i enjoy their products, i find paizo to be very unclear when it comes to things like this. i pre-ordered july 10th and now ill get my copy after the books hit the shelves? why did i pay 50$ of shipping then? lol

If you didn't get an authorization e-mail, then something went wrong with your order. You should start a thread in the Customer Service section about it.

This is not the case for all orders. We don't send out "authorization emails" we send out confirmation emails for order spawning for subscription copies. For example, if someone preordered and did not subscribe, then they would not get an email.

Hunt, the PugWumpus wrote:

David knott 242 wrote:

If you got your authorization e-mail between Thursday and today, your shipment should occur some time between today and August 18th per this thread.

Rysky the Dark Solarion wrote:

*waiting intensifies some more*

>_>

<_<

{quietly moves Rysky's order to the end of the queue}

*slowly narrows eyes at the Pugwumpus*

*slowly narrows eyes at the Pugwumpus AND Rysky*

EDIT:*then puts in garbage orders just ahead of Rysky's*

<.<
>.>

Sadly looks like nothing for today.

Sadly looks like nothing for today.

Maybe nothing this week.

-Skeld

Sneaks into Skeld's house for a shower.

Sneaks into Skeld's house for a shower.

Anyone want the webcam address for this show?

-Skeld

Tajic wrote:

Sadly looks like nothing for today.

Maybe nothing this week.

-Skeld

That seems more like a "just in case it DOES take until next week" thing, since the PF releases this month are just Ruins of Azlant 1 and Elemental Master's Handbook. Considering most subscriptions are fulfilled in the first day, I can't imagine Starfinder's going to take 7 to even start.

captain yesterday wrote:

Sneaks into Skeld's house for a shower.

Anyone want the webcam address for this show?

-Skeld

Yes.

Could you have a crew of intrepid heroes ship it to me using their drift drive? Or UPS whichever is faster.

Skeld wrote:

Tajic wrote:

Sadly looks like nothing for today.

Maybe nothing this week.

-Skeld

That seems more like a "just in case it DOES take until next week" thing, since the PF releases this month are just Ruins of Azlant 1 and Elemental Master's Handbook. Considering most subscriptions are fulfilled in the first day, I can't imagine Starfinder's going to take 7 to even start.

They aren't actually fulfilled on the first day. Your email and PDF access (and charge) come when they run off the shipping label. For standard orders, they run off a whole stack of labels, and then work through them until everything is gone, which can take several days.

According to the latest customer service post in the August shipping thread, it will probably be a couple days at least before Starfinder starts shipping, since they said they are doing Pathfinder only shipments first.

By the way: Amazon.com & Amazon.de list all the initial Starfinder products as shipping september 5th...

Interesting.

I looked a few days ago and it was listed as August 17th. :-)

Joana answers all your questions.

Vic Wertz, October 2009:

Vic Wertz wrote:

We don't ship (or sell) directly to Amazon—we ship to the distributor they buy from. Our distributor shipments went out two weeks ago and, from there, when, how, and where the books go is out of our hands. The retail release date is today, October 21, and most of our distributors should have had enough time to get copies to most of their retailers by today.

I have no idea why Amazon is post-dating the release date.

Chris Self, May 2011:

Chris Self wrote:

The distributor Amazon buys from, Diamond, releases new items on Tuesday. Paizo releases new items on Wednesday. So, Diamond will release their new Paizo items the Tuesday after Paizo releases them. Which means that Amazon won't have them on release day.

A few days before release date, Amazon's algorithms will say, "Huh, we don't have this book that's releasing on Wednesday in stock. Let's push the release date back a month."

Viola. Amazon says that the product isn't available and is releasing a month late.

Vic Wertz, June 2013:

Vic Wertz wrote:

The retail release date is June 26. (Never trust Amazon's release dates for our products; they have no bearing on reality.)

This is absolutely standard procedure for new Paizo products at Amazon. Maybe you've ordered already-released product from them before?

-Skeld

It's worth nothing that at least here in my area Amazon lists it today as releasing on August 17th but seeing as I don't trust Amazon dates I canceled my pre-order and signed up for the Paizo Subscriptions as soon as they went up :)

Zaister wrote:

You only get shipping notices at this time if you are a subscriber, not for normal preorders. All non-subscription orders are filled at street date time.

Wait... are you saying that preorders don't ship until street date, meaning that you get it later as a result of preordering than if you went to your local store?

Or am I misunderstanding you?

as far as i understand, i think thats how it works, which makes me regret a thousandfold pre-ordering but not subscribing, because not only will i get it later than street date, but i paid nearly double the price because shipping was 46$ on a 59$ item. ill simply never order anything online from paizo again, frankly.

I believe pre-orders are sent out the same as subscriptions unless you have it set up to ship with a later subscription. You just miss out on the early pdf. :-)

And lots of people subscribe for one item and cancel afterwards, nothing wrong with going that route. :-)

This isn't the thread for it really*, but for everyone who says they are experiencing high shipping (postage and other fees), how are you getting other items you order from other retailers in the U.S. shipped cheaper?

* I'm not sure in which forum to create such a thread.

In the past, non-subscription preorders for Paizo products were shipped at the same time as subscriber copies. I would be surprised if that did not hold true for Starfinder as well. So, depending on where you are in the queue and how long the shipping itself takes, you may get it a couple of days before street date, you may get it on street date, or you may get it after street date.

amazon listing

HammerJack wrote:

Zaister wrote:

You only get shipping notices at this time if you are a subscriber, not for normal preorders. All non-subscription orders are filled at street date time.

Wait... are you saying that preorders don't ship until street date, meaning that you get it later as a result of preordering than if you went to your local store?

Or am I misunderstanding you?

as far as i understand, i think thats how it works, which makes me regret a thousandfold pre-ordering but not subscribing, because not only will i get it later than street date, but i paid nearly double the price because shipping was 46$ on a 59$ item. ill simply never order anything online from paizo again, frankly.

Subscriptions and preorders go out during the same shipping window. The only difference is that those who have preordered don't get the "we are about to ship your subscriptions" email that goes out during order spawning; their order was "spawned" when they placed it and received the confirmation.

Kandiell wrote:

HammerJack wrote:

Zaister wrote:

You only get shipping notices at this time if you are a subscriber, not for normal preorders. All non-subscription orders are filled at street date time.

Wait... are you saying that preorders don't ship until street date, meaning that you get it later as a result of preordering than if you went to your local store?

Or am I misunderstanding you?

as far as i understand, i think thats how it works, which makes me regret a thousandfold pre-ordering but not subscribing, because not only will i get it later than street date, but i paid nearly double the price because shipping was 46$ on a 59$ item. ill simply never order anything online from paizo again, frankly.

Subscriptions and preorders go out during the same shipping window. The only difference is that those who have preordered don't get the "we are about to ship your subscriptions" email that goes out during order spawning; their order was "spawned" when they placed it and received the confirmation.

Also, you can just add a subscription now if you're having regrets.

Subscribing in this case is identical to preordering, except you get a free PDF. You haven't paid anything yet, so you haven't lost anything.

This isn't the thread for it really*, but for everyone who says they are experiencing high shipping (postage and other fees), how are you getting other items you order from other retailers in the U.S. shipped cheaper?

* I'm not sure in which forum to create such a thread.

I'm not. Shipping from the U.S. is almost always very high, and I haven't found a way around it.

Considering most subscriptions are fulfilled in the first day,.

This is most definitely not the case.

Alchemaic wrote:

Considering most subscriptions are fulfilled in the first day,.

This is most definitely not the case.

So I just got lucky before? Cool.

Heya folks!

Obviously, some people are going to be getting their pdfs before the street date of August 17th, so I just wanted to pop and and discuss rules clarifications, and pasting text from the books into this thread.

The Starfinder Team won't be addressing rules clarifications until after Gen Con at the earliest. The reason for this is twofold. First, we don't want to begin to focus on details before most people have the book (we still have previews planned, even). Second, we just don't have time. Combining the release and preview info with our regular workload and con prep means we just can't realistically get to it.

Most likely, it's best to hold onto questions until a week or so after release.

Second, I'd like to remind folks that it is not okay to to copy large portions of text from the book. Doing so may result in the suspension or removal of posting privileges.

We want everyone to be excited and be involved, but we don't want to tease folks who can't get the book yet, or spoil any of their experience of cracking open a new RPG for the first time.

Thanks for your attention. :)

I don't think I've been this excited for an RPG book since the original Pathfinder core rulebook.

I am a person who buys from retail or amazon and tried to save money when I can. That being said the idea of Starfinder has revitalized my love of pen and paper and has gained my subscription. I do believe I won't be disappointed.

I preordered the limited edition rulebook and now am wondering:
isn't a free PDF included?
Please answer yes ^^
I took it for granted then but have now a growing doubt...

I preordered the limited edition rulebook and now am wondering:

isn't a free PDF included?
Please answer yes ^^
I took it for granted then but have now a growing doubt...

I believe the free PDF is only included with a subscription, not a preorder. I'm not 100% on that though.

Raspo wrote:

I preordered the limited edition rulebook and now am wondering:

isn't a free PDF included?
Please answer yes ^^
I took it for granted then but have now a growing doubt...

I believe the free PDF is only included with a subscription, not a preorder. I'm not 100% on that though.

Correct, sadly, it's why I didn't opt for the limited edition.

Ouch.

Can't understand why anyone should put 10$ on top of the full price just to get the PDF, but I guess I'll pay nonetheless...

Anyway, thanks for the info ^^