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[neurro1]

They should have marketed it like this:

The BioWare team is happy to announce the 3am EST / 12am PST launch of Dragon Age II! (see your local retail store for participation details and to get your copy! Please note that EST will be doing midnight launches but the game will not be available for play until 3am EST.)

[Maera Imrov]

Zandermill wrote...

Maera Imrov wrote...

My game won't be here for a day or two, likely. So I have no personal stake in this. That said, if you do a midnight release, it would make sense to set the 'release control' to the first timezone to enter midnight. There is then the chance that people in the later ones might get their game early, but it's doubtful. Most retailers abide by rules without silly programs like this to enforce it.

And if they did, it'd be 3 hours at best, in this particular situation.

Thank you, but I'm quite educated when it comes to time zones, thus if you read I posted that they gave an access time of 0000H US time. Which is Midnight EST.
Thank you for attacking me personally, because you have nothing to do but be a fanboy. Hey I'm a fanboy too, but I just stood out in the cold for over an hour to get my copy from my Gamestop, and I'm a bit peeved that the promised unlock time isnt being met.

..er... quote the wrong person? I'm agreeing with you.

[Blze001]

Manny160 wrote...

no midnight launch.. i ran all the way to gamespot for nothing. such madness

(Obligatory) Madness? THIS... IS... KIRKWALL!!

Anywhoo, remember what our darling Leli once said, "The forbidden fruit is all the sweeter, no?" Just do some slight tweaking and you get, "The fruit that is delayed needlessly for hours because the producer was too lazy to bother factoring in individual timezones for the fruit's release date is moderately more enjoyable." Has the same ring to it and everything! 

[TeaCokeProphet]

This is bull****. I'm watching my friend play the sexbox version right next to me. What gives?

[Phoenixblight]

neurro1 wrote...

They should have marketed it like this:

The BioWare team is happy to announce the 3am EST / 12am PST launch of Dragon Age II! (see your local retail store for participation details and to get your copy! Please note that EST will be doing midnight launches but the game will not be available for play until 3am EST.)

Bathesda did the same thing with Fallout New Vegas it was announced as Midnight unlock but in reality it was based on PST midnight. 

[LeandraNyx]

Are you serious? What is the point of a midnight launch if you have to wait for midnight in a completely different time zone to play? It's ridiculous. Perhaps this is to try to be fair to those living on the West Coast, but in the end they're really the only ones who will get to play it since it'll be 3am and I'll be needing to get to bed by the time I have permission to play the game I bought at "midnight launch".

[FemHawke]

Zandermill wrote...

They stated 0000h Military time. That is Midnight EST. No where did they change that active time. Except for in the software they launched after people waited in the cold to get their copies. So any time zone is correct, but BioWare picked 0000h. All I ask is they live to their word and let us access it in that time zone.

0000h isn't necessarily midnight EST... it's midnight in whatever time zone they are stating from.

Honestly, having it unlock at Pacific is kind of foolish on Bioware's part... or maybe it's EA. Anyway, if they had it unlock at midnight Eastern, the east coast peeps would be able to play it at midnight... and the west coast peeps would get it a little early. People would whine and moan in that circumstance as well about the "unfairness of it all" but at least everyone in the US/Canada would be able to play it "at midnight". 

Modifié par FemHawke, 08 mars 2011 - 05:45 .

[AshaneF]

Phoenixblight wrote...

Sorry but its like Fernando Melo said its the brick and mortal store dictating and place physical rules on the digital versions to avoid a retailer having direct competition. If you didn't want it like this could have picked up the console version. Couple hours and we will all be able to play and it will be there for us to play whenever we want.

That would make sense ...

However, Bioware is having a midnight release party of their own.

One in which, at midnight in Edmonton, no one that acutally gets their copy will be able to play either.

I'm a bit shocked Bioware would overlook something so glaring, or maybe the PC version of DA2 is such a minority of their sales that they simply dont care.

Either way, I'd love to be at that release party and watch everyone go "Uh, it says we cant play it..durrr".

[steelerblitz]

still. there should have been mention of this ahead of time. there was no point at all for me to waste time going to get the game at a midnight release on the east coast when i still can't play the game until tomorrow. i have to work in the morning. had i known about this wait til 3am BS, i could have simply picked up the game tomorrow (in less time than it took waiting tonight) and play it then. not happy.

[trh5001]

Im not mad about the check im mad that the PC version has to wait while the xbox and ps3 users get to go right along.

[II Sl4sh3r II]

This is a direct jab at the PC version. 360 and PS3 can play it, why can't we? This is ****ing bull****.

Modifié par II Sl4sh3r II, 08 mars 2011 - 05:47 .

[Gamejudge]

Personally I find it to be rude of EAware. Not surprised. But incredibly offended that I just gave up my precious time to buy your product and not have access to it.

[neurro1]

So the console buyers are playing their copies of DA2 without a release date check? Those that purchased the PC version are the only ones getting screwed over? It makes NO sense to allow console players to play at Midnight EST but have this stupid lockout just for the PC version.

[marshalleck]

You know what you should do about it? Make a thread title in all caps.

[Handsome Hank]

My complaint is that Bioware FAILED TO MENTION that it was 12:00 PST.

Oops! Sorry we didn't tell you that you couldn't actually play the game at midnight unless you were one of the 8% of the world's entire population that lives on the west coast. Our bad.

Bioware CS has really been getting worse and worse ever since joining up with EA. Other games have12:00 AM launches, but I guess that Bioware spent too much time pretending to give us "epic" dialog choices between being Jesus and Satan that they forgot the finer points of customer service.

Fanbois are irritating. But I guess that's to be expected on a Bioware forum.

[Peachiemi7]

This is very sad indeed, won't be able to play until tomorrow night... >.<

[TeaCokeProphet]

Guess I'll go back to snatching up some poachermans.

[bhaalchild22]

This only goes to show how stupid DRM is. I paid for this product and now I want to use it. People who are going to to pirate are going to do it no matter how many checks you put in place. This only goes to show how out of touch EA is to do this. 3 am est is not midnight on the East Coast. I don't care if its 12am then pst. When do people celebrate new years on the east coast? At 12 not 3 to match up with the west coast. Ridiculous.

[marshalleck]

steelerblitz wrote...

still. there should have been mention of this ahead of time.

There was mention of this ahead of time. It's not Bioware's fault you weren't paying attention. 

[Khadroth]

I love you BW but this is semi-retarded. Should have just made it 12am est. Who cares if someone on the West Coast cheats by 3 hours then anyways when it's already released elsewhere?

Modifié par Khadroth, 08 mars 2011 - 05:49 .

[Jenksy]

I'm glad that I waited at Gamestop for midnight... I guess that I'm off to bed. I'll play this game when I wake up. :'(

[Zandermill]

All I have to say is, this is hurting PC sales more and more. The Xbox and PS3 versions were out and hacked, and cracked last week. I waited and bought for my PC to support BioWare, only for them to Cblock for no valid reason.

This is poor form, and I hope to god it isnt the same for Mass Effect 3, or I'm done with BioWare PC games.
Not even Blizzard was dumb enough to do this to Cata / Starcraft 2 people, they launched at Midnight, the games were out and it was playable by 1am.

Modifié par Zandermill, 08 mars 2011 - 05:50 .

[Tlorrie70]

wow. I was a bit pissed off to see that I also went to a store at midnight but now I see I can't play until 3am!!!! That REALLY sucks bad..........

[Marhkus]

I just wished I would of known it was based on PST time. I mean, if you say: ASIA, 00:00 on the 8th it kinda means... Well, exactly that. But it meant ASIA, 00:00 on the 8th PST... So, why not just tell me ASIA, 15:00.

[postwarhero]

^^