I did pay Chivas, we have a debit card in the UK, anyhow they refunded me late last year without me even asking for it. They said the product was no longer available. Not a bad little earner though if they took 3-5 thousand (mere speculation) pre-orders @ £27 each and sit on the cash for over a year. It would not take much effort on the part of 1C to make a statement about pre-ordering a product that is no where near completion, especially in 2007.
You can still pre-order it from these places.
http://www.play.com/Games/PC/4-/1021...n/Product.html
http://www.gogamer.com/Storm-of-War-...VVviewprod.htm
http://www.ebgames.com/Catalog/Produ...oduct_id=61047
http://www.mightyape.co.nz/product/P...itain/1515597/
This one makes me giggle, abit of a communication breakdown here me thinks unless this is what became Birds of prey, but how could it be possible that Ubisoft really believed that SOW would be released in Nov 2006? Did they just make it up without any input from Oleg, seems very unlikely to me.
http://www.ubi.com/US/News/Info.aspx?nId=3950