Isn't the game supposed to unlock by now?

[ecolus]

So I was under the impression that the game would unlock at 4pm GMT but I keep checking my steam library and it still won't let me install. It's my first time pre-ordering a game so I'm a little confused on how it goes but is anyone else having this issue?

[LumberJak]

The time I had heard was 10AM Pacific, or 6PM CET, which would be 1 more hour from now.

[Arctuhris]

Yep, also waiting/refreshing. To be fair, the Steam "available in ... " always rounds to the nearest hour/half-hour, so, I'm not worried yet.

[|tb|Brutal]

Yea I thought it was 12:00 EST but not unlocked yet.

[UberNyuber]

Yeah, it´s kinda confusing when it said "unlocked in an hour", which was an hour ago. I guess we have to wait for another hour.

[Qoojo]

Does the store page not have estimated time of unlocking for you? It always does for me.

[tempest.of.emptiness]

It should unlock in about 49 minutes. After that, if it hasn't unlocked for you, exit and restart Steam, then try again.

[BigSexy]

Originally posted by tempest.of.emptiness:

It should unlock in about 49 minutes. After that, if it hasn't unlocked for you, exit and restart Steam, then try again.

and if it still hasn't unlocked, then hard reboot your computer and try again.

[LVTrish]

Yup. Starting to make my concern meter rise. I really hope this launch goes well and the game is good. PDX has been slapping us around the last few releases and I hope they got it together on this one.

[tempest.of.emptiness]

Originally posted by Qoojo:

Does the store page not have estimated time of unlocking for you? It always does for me.

The way Steam communicates information about when a game will unlock is imprecise and potentially confusing. If you watch the discussions for just about any game right before release you will see threads like this where people aren't sure when it is actually going to unlock.

The reason it is confusing is that when the game will unlock in 1 hour and 59 minutes Steam reports that it will unlock "in about an hour", because it is rounding down. People see that and they get it in their head (understandably) that it will unlock at the next hour mark. When that point passes, though, it doesn't unlock and Steam's message changes to say that it will unlock in "less than an hour". So people end up waiting for 2 hours when they thought they only had one hour left to wait.

Steam could fix this problem by having the message read "in less than two hours" from the 2 hour mark to the 1 hour 1 minute mark, and then "in less than an hour" from the 1 hour mark to the 1 minute mark.

[Jo_Rocker]

Paradox releases all their games at 5pm.

[tempest.of.emptiness]

Originally posted by Jo_Rocker:

Paradox releases all their games at 5pm.

It is always about 5pm somewhere.

[Gaery]

No

[ryan.keinath]

the release date is gone

[Lichlord9333]

It is unlocked now.

[arbenzlola]

It just unlocked, let's gooooo