Now imagine this: 11.11. is national holiday in Poland and all stores will be closed. People who didn't preorder have to wait yet another day before buing Skyrim. All the spoilers! Gameplay videos! The horror!

Seriously, nobody forces you to read forums and watch videos on Thursday night. And it's really not Bethesda's fault that some stores are already selling the game either.

I do feel bad for the rest of the Skyrim fans having to wait 3 days longer than us Dutchies.
But normely we are the ones getting a game 2-3 days later.
Don't worry, 50% can't play anyway, since they got it on PC.

no release in germany, stop blaming europe ! ^^

Oh boy, I want this game so hard!

What? O_o, are you sure? If thats true it svcks, i probably get my copy tomorrow, but i wont be able to play it before friday? lol. I can understand that they dont open the downloadable-versions before 11, thats kinda obvious, but when you got the physical copy of the game, you should be able play it

Shhhh! Don't tell them that, makes the topic less fun. Now they will know we are born from male vikings and female dutch prosttutes.

I actually want to play it and get it on the 11th. It means fellow fans are uniting all over the world to play and install Skyrim in amazement. We've been building up to this date for a year now, and the experience won't be the same for me if I get it earlier. I'm glad I'm not able and won't get tempted!

I guess you're probably right. But considering the countries border each other I guess that the race is quite similar.

I guess most countries near Norway have Viking blood due to.. well how the vikings were.

http://www.geek.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/xkqff954n8tz.jpg

@simaksnz: Vikings are not really a race, but some of the culture are the same, as they were all Norse.

Yeah we're all germanian.

In fact, Midgard was renamed Norway only after the Vikings had told the english that they had taken "Norvegen" to get there (norwegian for "the north path"). Then later on, we started calling our own country Noreg "Eg kommer fra nor, eg" ("From the north, I come"), and then later still "Norge" during the danish union xD

Fun Fact: You brits practically invented the name of our country

I go along with the above quote ftw

Time zones aside i really couldnt care less who gets their copy before others, only thing that matters is that i'll be there along with many others starting our adventures in Skyrim

I live in Louisiana and have viking blood. Those rascals got around....
then again, in Louisiana I'm not sure there isn't a ethnic group I don't have in my blood..

Hmm, well I suppose there's no harm in putting up the Stream preload then?

My ISP throttles traffic from Steam, so if it takes much longer I wont be able to play on release

Feeling rather jealous right about now.

Its not true, viking was a form of activity, a career, and something you did, not a ethnic or geographical description as some might think. Even though the origin of the word probably derives from the fact that vikings often were in their boats in Viks(near the coast), while waiting to strike, or just waiting for the weather to get better, as mentioned in several of the sagas.

You can say a person is A viking, as in, a raider that use ship, mostly a hit & run tactic which the Scandinavian ships were perfect for as they were the fastest ships in Europe. But a person can also say "im going viking".

A example in Norwegian: Eg dro i austerviking,
In english that is "I went eastviking" It means, that you went to the east, in viking(raiding). Plundering eastern europe.


The sagas tell of danish vikings, swedish vikings(svea, g?ter), Norwegian vikings, saxon vikings, also vender(todays poland) vikings. Even though non-scandinavian vikings were rare, they probably were'nt able to compete due to inferior ship-technology.


A lot of people have no idea how to use the word viking. And what it actually means. Its more often used wrongly then correct.

Personally ive read all the sagalitterature that does exist in Norwegian. Then you get a good picture of these things.

Even if people from Europe already got their hands on the game early - since it's using steam (and steam svcks f**king preteen balls) that won't help much.
I got my copy some hours ago, I was uberly happy and excited, and it ended in tears because steam would just say "This Game Cannot Be Installed" (-have fun staring at the useless DVD)

Trying to install when the DVD first enters the computer: https://blufiles.storage.live.com/y1p3MhqwDCtHggFQch-dP8kyGc3Xvw3LHXQKR7ltPCvz9PhtqYy9p4g4XZdOZGFUimBaHLKma_Ce2Q/Screenshot%20-%20111108a.jpg?psid=1

When trying again (after no installation was possible): https://blufiles.storage.live.com/y1psTRHFPOebkk8Ti39X90B2LZiE1fdlritnp667Hs7sBsl6umNhG-7Ny5TxPZl-EfDGRwJGDepHRg/Screenshot%20-%20111108%20003a.jpg?psid=1

if this is because it can only be installed after 11.11.11 ~ svcks for me
if this is because of a bug with steam. Congratulations, everyone, none of you will be able to play it until they fix that problem

Anyway, this svcks f**k steam man...

That ***** svcks. I was getting excited since i probably get the game tomorrow, but now ill end up staring at the useless dvd for 2 days.

Hahahahha i WAS NOT, the prosttute part that is!

I do wear wooden shoes LOLZ!

Except the copies being sold early are Xbox and PS3 which play just fine, right now.

Yeah, of course. Always the console-players . Microsoft would probably puke all over bethesda if they dared to block the x-box version to 11nov as well.

I have a Wii, I'll try using the DVD there, brb


EDIT:
Nope, didn't work there either, seems like the steam-protection makes the Wii believe it's no game


Oh btw, Apparently you might also get part of the Soundtrack with just the Limited Edition, I may pick up mine on friday when they have them in the shop
Friday... T_T When my holiday's half over

Oh what a pain......

Lies! The "Netherlands" don't really exist. Nor does this place called "Belgium." Nobody gets it earlier. It releases on 11.11.11.

I work at a dutch gamestore called ''gamemania'' I had more then 25 people asking if they already could complete their pre-order. My colleague almost gave some away. but Luckily I was working at that time. My store is staying legit. Except all the Kids toys stores that are giving copies away already.

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Dutch? Vikings? I think not, only us scandinavians were true vikings.

That is so true. only us scandinavians were true vikings !!!

I don't see what that has to do with the netherlands getting it early.... Damn really devoted fan, get lost! No one wants you here anyways!

Damn right!
Swedes, Danes, Fins(that sounds wierd in english), Norweigans and Icelanders are the only true vikings!

Officially, only Norwegians.