Release Date - Discussion of an understanding of timezones

I hate it when games are released.

Because I always end up in the same dilemma.

The game is released via the timezone of the developers own location usually, but not always, sometimes they choose a default timezone sometimes they go with what they think is the timezone that is default for them. Confused? I am… :smiley:

So the Game of Diablo Releases at:

00:00 on the 2nd of June 2023. (here in the uk)
for some people, it is shown as 12am (Mid Day)
for others it is 24hrs (Mid Night) (This is shown by some as Mid Night on the 1st or the 2nd)

So which is it?

1 second into Friday Morning?
The last second of Friday Night?
Mid Day, lunchtime, of Friday?

And how long will the initial queues be? 2-3 hours? 4-6 hours? Would it be better to log in on the morning of Friday or Saturday?

Thoughts?

No body knows…

for me In europe / Denmark, its roughly at Midnight or 1 AM it releases :slight_smile: on june second, so will be getting ready all thursday the 1th so i can play when it hits midnight

It being released June second at 00:00, so the beginning of June second. The sever slam was a test of servers open to those who preordered, and only those who pre ordered can play on June second.

Everyone else has to install the game once they buy it on or after June sixth. Servers should be fine

The server slam didnt do anything justice, there was a MASSIVE downgrade in player popularity on the server slam due to most waiting for launch and alot allready tried the open beta last time :), for many its gonna be 1 AM at midnight :slight_smile: if your in Europe :slight_smile: , and not 00:00

The early access will be released at 01:00 am CEST June the second. Which means, it will come out on the night from Thursday to Friday next week at 1am for Europe.

England is 1 hour behind, so it will be 00:00 am June the second. Which means the night from Thursday to Friday, exactly at 12 am. For America, the game will be released June the first, in day and evening time.

Thursday, June 1 at 4:00 pm PDT (UTC-7)
Thursday, June 1 at 7:00 pm EDT (UTC-4)
Friday, June 2 at 12:00 am BST (UTC+1)
Friday, June 2 at 1:00 am CEST (UTC+2)
Friday, June 2 at 8:00 am JST (UTC+9)
Friday, June 2 at 9:00 am AEST (UTC+10)

1 am for europe… i forgot they run on french gmt… which is always wrong, which is why the french are always late.

So we’re all going for around Late Thursday to early Friday. Ok.

I actually missed the Slam login by an hour… because I forgot about Eu Time…
If I hadn’t asked… i’d have been an entire day late…

OP talked about “here in UK”, so using the UK start time would make sense.

First day is usualy a mess anyways.
If the obt in march will be the template, it is going to be 1-2 hour logg in queue whitin the first 24H the servers are live in the early access deal, provided there is no addition server problems or hackers that are bored and want to mess with the servers.

Yea i know, blizz sold 4 days early access, but i doubt blizz can pull off 4 whole days whitout any server problems in a game that has moust likely well above avrage release hype.

Consider the first day as lost, i have.

Excellent news, lots to complain about.

Yes and the Uk is not in the Eu :smiley:

Here in italy it will be release the 2nd of june at 1 or 2 am

1am if italy as you’ll be in french gmt or eu timezone.

Unless they changed the borders of entire continents as an aftermath of Brexit, the United Kingdom is very much still in Europe, it’s just not apart of the European Union anymore. ie. not being overseen by an organization attempting to become a centralised government to all surrounding nations, being operated out of Germany… why does that ring a bell.

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Nope uk has never been in europe… it’s an island nation on the outside of europe. We’re neither in the Eu or in Europe.

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Please tell me you are trolling. No western adult who is literate has ever put anything close to that sentence together in the history of mankind, or they have a severe lack of understanding on what makes up a continent.

It’s a state of mind… We’ve never been in Europe… although Europe has tried to invite us several times, it’s why being in the Eu never worked for us, because we’re outside the Eu and Europe… we might share a continental shelf… but we’re and never have been in Europe. We speak english… they don’t.

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You do have potential in the art of the Troll :+1:t3: Keep @ it.

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You will find that 12am is midnight.

England has its own money, probably why Europe

Yeh it’s weird that… am is midnight… makes no sense. 12am is Noon. Or Mid Day.

Anyone over 13 years old should have this sussed from the original announcement, you don’t need to resurrect Albert Einstein to solve the mathematical mystery of when a game is released in your time-zone when you have been provided a point of reference.

Anyone who is struggling… You have my condolences, both your education system and your parents have let you down.