I imagine the game itself will live up to our expectations. It's the obsession some of us (including myself) have with the release date. I happened to find a cure, or pacifier anyway. In my quest to know every rumour possible, I accidentally came across the recently released demo for Unreal Tournement 2004. It's the balls. Anyway, THAT game has gone gold and is will officially be in stores on 3/15/04. So - I've been playing the demo (lots of free servers available for internet play) and plan on buying that game in a few days when it's out. Since I've started playing UT2004 I've been able to put Doom on the mental back burner for now. Thank god!!!!
If this helps just one of us overly obsessive doom addicts, then I'll feel I've contibuted something to society!!