Steam Pre-order WHEN?

[kyuven]

well if they say, "sometime in may" and then the pre-orders don't come in may, you would at least expect them to go "sorry, we're late, you'll get it before early access" or something?

Again, if they don't know why and are in communication with someone else, they may not know what they need to apologize for.
Besides it's Sunday. They can't make any announcements like that until someone is in the office to authorize it. Technically it's still "sometime in may" right now.