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

So, does this mean that at the end of the month the Beta comes out

No.

There's no date set, this is just a notice that the promotion is ending soon.

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.

Tagging to remind myself.

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.

That is my reasoning too.

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.)

Won't alienate me lol. I haven't pre-ordered and I will still pick this up. I'm just waiting for more information before I 'pre-order' for access to the beta when it goes live.

Because this is a capitalist market, IronClad / Stardock have to make money, and you shouldn't get 'hand-outs'. Why does everyone feel like they are entitled to a 'give me' mentality.  You must be like the Vasari and simply TAKE what you want! 

I will definitely give it a go as 'theoretically' the learning curve will be less steep as less experience players will likely check it out. Depending on the new interface and features it will likely seal the deal.

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

Are we there yet? Are we there yet?

LOL.

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. 

I bought Sins of a Solar Empire in February 2009 for $20. I had a lot of fun with it. Not long after, I picked up Entrenchment for $10. Had fun with that.

Then Diplomacy was coming out, and there wasn't a whole lot of information on it, but I thought, "Hey! I'll preorder it anyway." I've only played diplomacy (or Sins, for that matter) a handful of times since then.

Now it sounds like the same old story. Another relatively small tweak to the current game which will change strategies but likely not revitalize the game all that much.

I'm not going to make the same mistake I did with Diplomacy and preorder when there's little evidence there'll be anything except what has already been announced, which isn't really that much larger or gamechanging than what's already come out (the two smaller expansions). I figured back with Diplomacy that the small amount of information was just because they weren't ready to talk about it. Turns out the short list of new features really was all they added.

Don't get me wrong. I like Sins (though the novelty has worn off.) I've spent many hours conquering the stars when I ought to have been doing other things. But I've gotten the feeling that Ironclad has gotten a bit... creatively stale. Sins doesn't seem to be changing a whole lot, but there seems to be quite the grab for cash with Rebellion. $40 is just too steep for what boils down to another mini-expansion. $40 is buying a completely new AAA PC game a bit after it comes out. Deus Ex (amazing game!) just came out, and now you can get it for $40. I also just picked up another indie RTS (Achron) which has some really crazy features. That complete game costs only $30. Rebellion is essentially a 3-year-old indie game priced like a current AAA title.

Who but the hardcore-est fans (i.e. play it more than once in a blue moon) would get Rebellion, other than people who haven't sank the money in for Trinity (either $40 as I did, or $20 with the bundle)? It's just not that much new content. The bang for the buck is just bad.

If you want to drop $40 (or $30) and get it, I have no problem with that. Ironclad is a small studio and I'm sure they need the money since the initial sales of Sins are probably down by now. But chances are, I won't be getting Rebellion unless the price drops. Significantly. Or they announce that their list of new features was only a partial one, and that this is actually the large "stand alone" expansion they claim.