Remember when games used to get released at midnight

[Royal]

Dunno why they changed it, it used to be much better not having to wait most of the day just to start it.

[Alzakiel]

Remember when you had to wait to go buy a physical copy ? It used to be a pain in the arse.... But people weren't crying on forum about it. lol

[Royal]

Originally posted by Alzakiel:

Remember when you had to wait to go buy a physical copy ? It used to be a pain in the arse.... But people weren't crying on forum about it. lol

No, steam used to release games at midnight...

[weedblaze]

Originally posted by Alzakiel:

Remember when you had to wait to go buy a physical copy ? It used to be a pain in the arse.... But people weren't crying on forum about it. lol

what you talking about? many games did midnight releases for physical copies, i remember a friend waited outside for Litch King for hours to get that game, does anyone know when the EST tome release will be for this?

[Teej]

I don't know why people are so ♥♥♥♥♥♥ about the release date. At least Steam is keeping everyone on the same ground releasing it for everyone at the same time. You know for a fact people will complain more if certain areas got the game before others. With it being a "Global Release" it just means everyone will get it on whatever timezone Steam decides on. Talk about impaitent babies

[America_Yea]

if i remember correctly steam stopped the practice because of massive numbers of people migrating to the steam servers where it was released first (changing location) and shutting them down with traffic.

[Derangel]

Studios have always been free to decide when they want to release their games. In the early days of Steam as a digital retailer everything used to release at noon PST, was like that for a couple years before studios started doing more midnight releases.

[edale1]

The game IS being released at midnight.

It's being released at exactly midnight of March 7th... In Japan.

[Derangel]

Originally posted by edale1:

The game IS being released at midnight.

It's being released at exactly midnight of March 7th... In Japan.

Nope. It's being released at 2am JST.

[Viper]

I can remember in the past going to my local gamestore at midnight to get a game. Still happens actually a lot for major console releases. It actually was kind of a pain..standing in a line..getting there early ( because if there where only 10 people there they where open for about 10 minutes..if you got there at 15 past you where out of luck )...having to do the drive there and home again. Its much more convenient now.

[America_Yea]

considering it IS a Japanese gaming company releasing the game i'm not too terribly surprised at this.

[duEprocEss]

It's always midnight somewhere!

[America_Yea]

Originally posted by America_Yea:

considering it IS a Japanese gaming company releasing the game i'm not too terribly surprised at this.

the release time being in local time for them that is.

[Suny]

store page says 16 hours until release, so 5 or 6 pm "german" time (cet?) =)

[alphariot]

Originally posted by America_Yea:

Originally posted by America_Yea:

considering it IS a Japanese gaming company releasing the game i'm not too terribly surprised at this.

the release time being in local time for them that is.

Well even for them it's 2AM JST 7th march...

[Bigboss PC Faster]

finally steam release game at midnight of my time zone,so i don't have to wait all the day for game launch anymore.