According to Mike Ybarra launch time is 12AM (night) for Europe… so we need to ask permission for work that day???
Pre-order in the UK for a midnight launch, queue until 1,2 and 3am depending on how overwhelmed the servers are, and play 2 hours before you start work with no sleep. Yea, this will go down well.
I don’t understand what is wrong with the long established season / patch launches they normally do with Diablo 3, just as the did with the D4 beta. They were at more reasonable times…
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past midnight in EU, so basically the 03.06. is just stupid … they should reiterate and explain again…that seems not very well planned
You are wrong, its the night from 01.06. To 02.06.
I dont get why that is a reason to complaint.
If they would launch the game in the evening people would complain that its not full 4 days of early access. Also its pretty clever to launch the nifght from thursday to friday, because not all people will ddos the servers. Instead they distribute over the day when people come home from work or similar to log in.
Launch day is 02/06/23 for early access and 06/06/23 regular. So they actually push it out as early as possible on those days. How is that bad?
And btw europe has multiple time zones.
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Take a day off god damn it.
The complaints cant get more pathetic. 
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Exactly this.
I usually don’t like those 6pm launches. That usually means I only have 2-3 hours to play that day, and in case of online games it usually means not playing at all cause servers are down.
All games should be adjusted to the relevant time zones and launched at midnight.
And like Napfkuchen said, it spreads the load on the servers throughout the day.
I don’t know what you do for a living, if anything at all, but most productive people in society hold positions vital to the day to day management or smooth running of their organizations, it’s not just as easy as “take a day off”, and why would you piss away holiday day(s) for a game launch?
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Ok you didnt get the point.
IF its that important to start playing right as the game launches, then take a day off.
If it dosnt matter, just dont and play when it fits you. 
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If we take a look at the times for eg WoW Dragonflight it was
3PM PST = 0:00 CET
Maybe they sync their shedules
It’s more like they want to launch in all regions at the same time. What will not only put absolutely insane stress on the Battlenet launcher, but will be launched at a nice convenient time around their local work hours, the rest of the world can spin on it.
If it continues to be a 00:00 launch in the UK, I’ll queue to claim my usual clan tag and logout until the next day, I’m not destroying my schedule for the next week so a handful of people don’t get paid overtime for a staggered region launch.
Funny how they never mentioned this when they were selling 100 buck pre-orders for early access. This might have flown when when I was 14-18 years old, but as an adult my time and my week don’t revolve around a game launch, I will play the game no doubt for server thousand hours as I did it’s predecessor, but I’m not sleeping all day and playing all night for days or weeks.
I work with a pattern of 4 days on 4 days off, the game’s out on the 2nd day of my days off and I’ve applied to take 4 days off work… so I’ll be having 11 days to binge. 
They can’t do that with Diablo 4 because in Diablo 4 we will not have EU, US, or ASIAN realms as we do in Diablo 3. In Diablo 4 there is going to be one global realm.
It did not stop them with a regional rollout during the early access and open beta.
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What game are you talking about? 
Balance everything, blizzard making sure everyone to be on exact time to play aka rush world first player.
D2r ladder starts are normally 1/2am for CET and I still play the start of those the queues will suck but what would be expected
do wish we got a bit more love
the beta that was great for us here but it launches world wide at the same time so some people will always get the short straw
Short straw nothing, it’s an artificial issue that is easily solved. It comes down to laziness in almost every argument you could have for it, as the solutions would require effort and time.