Release time for EU

[Luna_UK]

Hi,

Does anyone know what time the game go live in the EU? Is it 00:00 on the 15th or is it later in the morning?

Thanks

 

[XanTraX]

look here: https://www.gamewatcher.com/news/20...s-preloading-download-size-everything-we-know

- UK – 5pm GMT
- US Pacific Time – 9am PST
- US Eastern Time – 12 Noon EST
- Europe – 6pm CET
- Australia - 4am AEST

 

[Luna_UK]

Well thats a bit pants really.

Thanks for the reply

 

[Da3d3lus]

look here: https://www.gamewatcher.com/news/20...s-preloading-download-size-everything-we-know

The annoying thing here is the lack of dates. For Australia is it 4am the 15th or 4am the 16th? Logically if it launches at the same time relative to one time zone then the 16th would be right but it’s annoying it’s not stated on that site.

 

[Luna_UK]

The annoying thing here is the lack of dates. For Australia is it 4am the 15th or 4am the 16th? Logically if it launches at the same time relative to one time zone then the 16th would be right but it’s annoying it’s not stated on that site.

Based on what someone is indicating on Steam Discussion boards, the release time is based on when Steam runs their system update which is 9am PST and then every other timezone is based off this time.

That would indicate that 9am PST 15/03 = 4am AEST 16/03

 

[rhaak]

look here: https://www.gamewatcher.com/news/20...s-preloading-download-size-everything-we-know

- UK – 5pm GMT
- US Pacific Time – 9am PST
- US Eastern Time – 12 Noon EST
- Europe – 6pm CET
- Australia - 4am AEST

Isn't 9 am PDT 5 pm CET at the moment ?

 

[Luna_UK]

No

9am PST = 5pm GMT/UTC
9am PST = 6pm CET

 

[mrinku]

Looks like I'll be playing Friday, then. Half expected that.

 

[Luna_UK]

That's 6pm on the 15th.

Still released on 15th everywhere except Australia where it's the 16th. Based on the above

 

[rhaak]

No

9am PST = 5pm GMT/UTC
9am PST = 6pm CET

But isn't the US on daylight savings at the moment, but Europe not ?

9am PDT = 5pm CET ?

 

[Lt Loco]

But isn't the US on daylight savings at the moment, but Europe not ?

9am PDT = 5pm CET ?

You are correct. I despise daylight savings time. I am part of an online RPG that meets at fixed times with players across the globe, and the only person who can keep track of when the game is reliably is the DM.

 

[Smikewolf]

Meh, a day off work is a day off work

 

[Luna_UK]

But isn't the US on daylight savings at the moment, but Europe not ?

9am PDT = 5pm CET ?

Yes they are on DST now I hadn't realised that the US decided to go against the majority of the world for when the clocks change.

But no 9am PDT doesn't = 5pm CET

It now changes it to:

9am PDT = 6pm GMT
9am PDT = 7pm CET

So we can only hope that the original release times stay the same as was announced as these times were in place before DST kicked in

 

[rhaak]

https://www.worldtimebuddy.com/pdt-to-cet-converter

9 am PDT = 5pm CET

PDT stands for Pacific Daylight Time. CET is known as Central European Time. CET is 8 hours ahead of PDT.

 

[Luna_UK]

It defaulted to the wrong time when I did it. My mistake.

So It's either going to be the original times or the new times. Who knows. All I know is it's 3 days after console was released early by GameStop

 

[Skirlasvoud]

Best site to use for dilemmas like this:

http://everytimezone.com/#2018-3-14,1740,b8jj

 

[rhaak]

unlock time is 17:00 CET. When I looked at 21:00 CET in the Steam store it said: "This game will unlock in approximately 19 hours". 21:00 CET + 19 hours = 17:00 CET

 

[Sindri LeRose]

In the the AmA they said 18:00 CET, though.

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comme...mont_games_developers_of_tropico_and/dvorwsu/

 

[Luna_UK]

Maybe they're not aware that it's Day Light Saving time in the US or maybe they're not aware that the EU doesn't change it's clocks for another 2 weeks.

If the time is based on when Steam does their game release update it will be 16:00 GMT / 17:00 CET as that is 09:00 PDT

 

[Sindri LeRose]

Well, since Paradox are Swedish I'm gonna assume they know when daylight savings changes here (I'm also Swedish) and also, since it was Robin at Paradox who made the comment the most logical thing to assume would be that it in fact is released at 18:00 CET, wouldn't it? I would at least hope that the publisher knows when their own game is released.