Dont get me wrong - I love Steam. Its a great distribution platform for AAA and indie titles alike. Never before have indie titles had the opportunity to reach normal gamers, like they can on Steam.
I just think its silly with this release that they enforce such a strict unlock policy, since its distributed at the same time to consoles. And retailers are notorious at breaking release dates. Why deny customers their product?

I'll be damned. He did, too. Fingers crossed that he told Steam.

In other words...The people that have supported TES since the beginning, American PC users, are going to be the absolutely last people able to play the game.

For Austria (Europe) its Midnight (5 hours )?

My game only unlocks on the 12 November instead of the 11th November. I hate this, it's not fair. We share the similar timezones with the aussies, why aren't we included?

GMT+8 timezone

http://i41.tinypic.com/2n8dfnd.jpg

It's 6 hours for Finland now.

I think it would be absurd if they even stopped to ask themselves "hey, who bought our first video games? We should give them an early launch", but then I don't have the mind of a teenager anymore.

Your response has nothing to do with what I'm discussing and your attempt at an insult was immature, almost teenager-like.

Remember in Desert Shield when US forces rolled into Iraq? What did Saddam do? He fired scud missles at Isreal.

Some people just can't connect the dots.

The Shortcut is taunting me...-click click click- GO!

That was probably intentional.

I live in Singapore.

Basically, it is now 2:04 AM on the 11th of November 2011.

I already pre-loaded Skyrim into steam. But its still not unlocked? So I went to check the store page and it says that the game will be released on the 11th of November and I have 21 hours left until it unlocks.

Im just so confused. I tried looking up online if anyone else is having the same problem. But nada, none.

Tried relogging and restarting steam. But still I cant seem to get it to unlock.
Then I synced my computer time to the online time and now the store page says the game will get unlocked on the 12th of November. This is really bothering me. I waited all day to play this game and now it wont even let me play because it thinks I still have a day to wait.

Is that true what Pete tweeted? So I live on east coast u.s. Does that mean steam unlocks for me at 7pm tonight??

But, yay for time zone unlocking!!! Woohoo!

In all seriousness, I'm sorry to hear that...No idea what to tell you.

If you live on the east coast you will get it at 00:01 11.11.11

If your like me who lives in central I could get it 23:01 11.10.11

You can unlock it if you use a VPN for a time zone in which the game is already unlocked.

No they didn't. Skyrim is already unlocked on Steam in certain regions of the world, which is how there's a crack. Steam's encryption itself was not beaten and the official unlock time wasn't beaten, since the official time is already passed in certain areas of the world.

just a little bit longer, lads.... STAY STRONG

21 hours.

Sigh.

Here's the tweet:


Pete Hines (@DCDeacon)
11/10/11 7:42 AM
@shadowheart7 12:01am GMT for rest of the world

So annoying I have my game sat here and it doesnt unlock for 6 hours

Unless time zones are abolished and the world moves to a daily clock a release date/timezone will always create winners and losers, get over it.

Dude, the rest of the world already operates as if we had a single timezone, get with the times.

So is it GMT 12:01am for the US or is Steam correct?

Pete's response was to someone from India that couldn't play yet. I'm thinking he meant 12:01 GMT for those east of GMT time and just stupidly said "rest of the world."

Unlocked for me for five hours now. It's a nice change, because Aussies often get shafted for release dates. OP is complaining about being delayed by a couple of hours, but we often end up waiting days between the US launch and the Australian launch.