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?
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?
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/.
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..
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
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Not got my retail key yet, but expecting it tomorrow anyway (my steam definitely says released tomorrow) .
Oh and I'm in the UK.
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Same for me, should get the key tomorrow according to Steam (oh and I'm also in the UK)
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
No big deal if you are on pre-order anyways? We have a grace period or am I missing something?
This way you at least planned for the worst and hopefully get the best result.
Glad I could help.
The DDE includes my Joined Trill, who i cannot play with until I get the code.