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Steam says 2nd of Feb for release date. However, I have heard 5th Feb for us UK people is the release date. Anyone know if Steam will be giving out the codes essentially 3 days early to the UK people, or will they differentiate, and give them out on the 5th?
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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Don't know to be honest, I'm on steam and sto isn't in the shops till this friday, I would assume that steam will release on the 2nd hopefully.
    Ansrza wrote:
    Steam says 2nd of Feb for release date. However, I have heard 5th Feb for us UK people is the release date. Anyone know if Steam will be giving out the codes essentially 3 days early to the UK people, or will they differentiate, and give them out on the 5th?
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Steam does allow publishers to set/change the release date depending on region, I've had problems with it in the past. I'm also in the UK though - hopefully we'll see it released tomorrow \0/.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    I hate to say it but i think they will lock it down until friday, ive quite often witnessed people in the US getting games a couple of days before me and short of them gifting it to me (which you can do with an mmo) theres no way i could obtain it until release day. I hope im wrong about this though, i really want to start getting my pre-order stuff onto my account..
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    I'm waiting for the retail release anyway, to save my precious bandwidth, but I hope you folks are nicely surprised ;)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    have you guys recieved your pre order keys yet from steam? If so how long does it take from purchase to get them in your mail box?
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    I got my pre-order key from steam as part of the download (if you right click on the game in steam you can select "view game key").

    Not got my retail key yet, but expecting it tomorrow anyway (my steam definitely says released tomorrow) .

    Oh and I'm in the UK.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Trek88 wrote: »
    I got my pre-order key from steam as part of the download (if you right click on the game in steam you can select "view game key").

    Not got my retail key yet, but expecting it tomorrow anyway (my steam definitely says released tomorrow) .

    Oh and I'm in the UK.

    U JUST MADE MY DAY I LUB YOU!
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Trek88 wrote: »
    I got my pre-order key from steam as part of the download (if you right click on the game in steam you can select "view game key").

    Not got my retail key yet, but expecting it tomorrow anyway (my steam definitely says released tomorrow) .

    Oh and I'm in the UK.

    Same for me, should get the key tomorrow according to Steam (oh and I'm also in the UK)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Deliberately locking out european customers doesn't seem likely to me. I think the european distributor that needs to get all the boxes to all the suppliers of all stores in a lot of european countries may have hit a snag in their logistics (tuesday is only two days after the weekend). So to guarantee that all of those stores have the boxes on the same day, they probably have had to postpone retail launch by three days.

    TLDR: Retail takes time to ship to stores. No reason why steam wouldn't go with feb 2nd. And even then: most of us are already in head start :D
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Same for me, should get the key tomorrow according to Steam (oh and I'm also in the UK)

    No big deal if you are on pre-order anyways? We have a grace period or am I missing something?
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Honestly, if they said the 5th, I'd expect it then and hope it comes out the second for you.

    This way you at least planned for the worst and hopefully get the best result.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    U JUST MADE MY DAY I LUB YOU!

    Glad I could help. :)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    No big deal if you are on pre-order anyways? We have a grace period or am I missing something?

    The DDE includes my Joined Trill, who i cannot play with until I get the code.
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