I bought this game on Friday (December 4th) and Steam keeps telling me the game is unreleased, and wont be available until Dec 4th. Any ideas? If GB had anything to say about this on the QL, I haven't been able to watch it.

Steam does this all the time. Tropico 3 got pushed back 2 or 3 times I believe. You just have to wait until it officially releases. My advice is don't preorder from steam, as they have been doing this more and more lately.

" Steam does this all the time. Tropico 3 got pushed back 2 or 3 times I believe. You just have to wait until it officially releases. My advice is don't preorder from steam, as they have been doing this more and more lately. "

Same thing for Tropico 3. I think what happened there was they used the game's release date for another region. Could have been the same thing here, or they pushed it back and never updated it. That, or it won't be released until a few hours, as this happened to me a few times also. (As steam's on the west coast)
 
 Do you see others playing it? Maybe you should try and restart steam, or just wait a while. If all else fails email steam/check there support page. www.steampowered.com
 
Edit: Seems like the games up... It says buy on the store page and not pre-purchase

We didn't get it through any sort of fancy connections, we just bought it on Steam when it came out. Maybe it's a regional thing?

I bought it yesterday and played through it fine.  The installation was kind of slow and clumsy, but the download was without issue.

I downloaded it yesterday and it went fine.  
 
Overall a fun way to waste 10 bucks and god knows we need more of those. 

" Steam does this all the time. Tropico 3 got pushed back 2 or 3 times I believe. You just have to wait until it officially releases. My advice is don't preorder from steam, as they have been doing this more and more lately. "

" Same thing for Tropico 3. I think what happened there was they used the game's release date for another region. Could have been the same thing here, or they pushed it back and never updated it. That, or it won't be released until a few hours, as this happened to me a few times also. (As steam's on the west coast)  Do you see others playing it?

Although it's is up to the publisher, Steam changed it Tropico 3 date with no indication while everyone else released it. I though the same could have happened here.
 
Anyway the game is out, so if anyone is having problems I say contact support.