Some of the online retailers are not emailing out early access codes until the 19th. I'm sure it's not going to be at 12:01 A.M. either, which means that early access is starting to look less and less early.

Quote Originally Posted by Nekodar View Post
I read it, but I'd still like some official word on this rather than speculation that seem likely.
The last official word was that DX11 would be a separate client that would have to be downloaded and installed separately. However, since then the benchmark was released and it (at least) doesn't appear to be as separate as we were led to believe.