Seen some people saying that with the PC version you will have to wait till launch day (12am, 11/11/11) to play it on PC, is this true? Guessing some sort of online activation might be required. I'm hoping Play.com delivers it early tomorrow (Thursday) and I can play it straight away!

You will have to wait. Steam is handling it all.

No you can't it uses Steamworks on PC, so you can't due to it being locked until the countdown is over.

You can't play until Steam unlocks, and that will be on the 11th, whatever time is appropriate for your timezone.

Steam needs to unlock Skyrim for you to play. Which unlocks 12est US time

Pretty much, I should receive my copy tomorrow, so ready for the "midnight" release atleast

Edit: Now I'm curious if I can pre-load/install the game from disk. I'm guessing yes?

We are all slaves of Steam and we must obey it.

At least my computer will have better everything compared to a console, so the wait should be worth it.

Dont' forget to bow down when you say that

If I were you, I would download Steam and create an account (if you haven't already), then, after you pick up your game, authenticate it with the serial in you cd case, then preload the game via download and wait till 11/11/11.

there is a way to do so but it downloads I think, forgot the process you need to enter your CD key by activating it through steam.

not true, its unlocks at vavles time. whenever they get into the office.

Valve unlocks it whenever the publisher says they want it unlocked at. Which, in case the publisher doesn't specify a time, defaults to "whenever they get into the office". I know they have a system for automatic launches, I've seen it on a couple big games, Valve just only uses it when asked, probably in case something goes wrong with the launch or something.

Thanks for all the replies everyone looks like i'll have to kill some more time untill it hits 12am, hopefully I can pre-load it through steam. Thankfully I already have an account so shouldn't be too much trouble. Hope you all enjoy playing it! Nord Battlemage here we go!