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Edited by kaliko701:
8/14/2014 7:03:56 PM
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Midnight Release Question - Pacific Time vs. Eastern Time...Digital vs. Hard Copy
1) If I live in central time and if I get the hard copy at midnight release will I be able to play at midnight central time or will I have to wait until 2am to play?
2) If I live in central time and if I get the digital copy (preloaded) will I be able to play at midnight central time or will I have to wait until 2am to play?
3) Why does gamestops website say 9am central standard time on 9/9 to be able to play destiny's digital download copy?
4) If I do pick the game up at midnight or have it downloaded at midnight central time will I only be able to play campaign then and not PvP?
Sorry if this is confusing but my god I am used to picking up a game at midnight and playing right away so this is not consistent with other midnight (central time) releases.
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Here is my take on the subject. I have pre-ordered the digital guardian edition on PS4 and the countdown timer is consistent with a 2am release CST (I live in the midwest). I am hoping that timer changes when I am able to preload the game. I would think that once it is on my hard drive, when I open Destiny it will take me to an actual countdown provided within the Destiny game. I don't think they will force us to go to the ps store and look at that timer. Its really just a placeholder. I hope that the timer we (theoretically) get in Destiny after preload will be accurate to each time zones release time. I seems logical to me that Sony included the first timer with the preorder in the PS store to keep us excited and give us a place to look and see how many days it will be until launch. I guarantee that this PS store timer was never considered by Bungie as a means to inform the public of when each individual will be able to log on and play. As far as all of the legal text saying "Destiny will be Available 9/9/2014 12am PST". They had to put the release date on the PS store and all of their advertising materials, Bungie is located in the Pacific time zone, so that is the time they put. Who knows, maybe I'm just in denial and I wont be able to log in until 2am (CST) launch night. But I've waited this long, I can wait two more hours if I must. I trust Bungie to do what they have to do to try and provide the best launch possible for everyone. They want this to be a successful launch even more than we do. Hopefully we will get official clarification from Bungie soon. But I don't see any reason for them to publicly promise that everyone will be able to log on at midnight local time on 9/9. If launch doesn't go as smoothly as planned and there are server issues keeping people from getting logged in, it would open up Bungie to a lot of criticism for not delivering on a promise they never had to make in the first place. One thing I am sure of is that Bungie will be spending all day and night on the 8th and 9th of September getting everyone logged into the game as quickly and smoothly as possible.
