Could not have been said better.

I guess im going to take a power nap. I'm so tired. 2 hours and im in vegas kids

it should, by law, have stated that on the Amazon page you preordered the game from too. And the Gamestop page. and.... (but it didn't)

Blasphemy! 48 Minutes!

Oh [censored] I didn't realize okay I can wait it out, stupid steam was saying 2 hours now it says 1.

Probably 1:48. If I remember correctly, once 1 hour is done, we'll have to wait 59 minutes.
I could be wrong though, I haven't done a steam midnight release in a while, but that is how I remember it.

Should I sleep or not?

Say it aint so!

:ahhh:

pre-loading is taking a long time, would it be faster to install it after it is unlocked?

I've been a moderator here at the launch of Oblivion, Fallout 3 and this, and they all been rough rides Especially Oblivion.

That's how Steamworks nailed me with "Front mission Evolved" *shudders*

Probably. The game isn't gonna disappear tomorrow, never to be unlocked


Although that would require me to lie, I shall say it isn't so.
And the last midnight release I waited for was for Borderlands, which didn't release until noon. It may have been planned to be released at noon the whole time, but I think the release got pushed back due to technical difficulties or something.

10-20 years ago it was considerably more difficult to pirate a game - try downloading a game on 56k, or burning a multi cd game when the cost of a cd was $1+, or what if you legitimately purchased the game but lost the manual which contained the secret word combination you needed every time you wanted to play the game... at the time the cost to employ code-monkeys was considerably lower, as was the production cost of games... and this also meant that the production quality was considerably lower.

Guess what, you don't really own much of anything. Buy mac os? Gotta put it on a mac, even though you own it and it could be put on a PC. Own some digital music? Up until a few years ago there was a good chance it was DRMed all to hell. Own your property? Nah, you're pretty much just paying to pretend it's yours until the government decides otherwise.

Life isn't sunshine and daffodils. Every day most everyone has to make difficult choices, which I'm sure the Obsidian/Bethesda team did when deciding to go with Steam for the PC version, and I'm sure Steam/Valve did when working out how they were going to unlock/distribute it. Are these choices the end of the world? Not at all. Sometime, somewhere you also made a bad decision that totally screwed up someone's day. Maybe it was out of your hands, maybe it was really your bosses fault but you had to enforce it... maybe you've never had to make tough choices, in which case stop [censored]ing about 3 hours. The average life expectancy in the United States is 77.9 years. That's 341,202 hours. Go make a sandwich, watch a movie, wax the car... whatever. And if you're going to complain about being too damn tired by the time unlock rolls around then you would have been too damn tired to really get the most out of the game anyway.

wow and i thought i was a control freak. Honestly I think people are just angry with your guys decision to make us wait, and I think we all know when people get angry we tend to say things we dont necessarily mean. I really dont see what give you guys the right to make us wait and let the console gamers all play right away. from the looks of things it sounds to me like you mods are saying we have no right to be angry. Whatever happened to "the costumer is always right"?

Guess Ill just get my entertainment here.
42 more minutes, is there any difference between the disc install and the preload?

Night kiddies, this launch was a bust and I'm just too tired to deal with this crap. I paid for something I can't use until some dipstick says I can. *Censored* you Bethesda. Happy hunting to the rest of ya.

I'm getting tired. I didn't pay attention to the 12 am PST thing. I am running out of things to keep me occupied. So tired. :snoring:

Preload is encrypted. After you download it, you have to get it decrypted, which takes a while. I don't own a disc copy, but I'm pretty sure it's not encrypted on the disc. That would be silly.

It's not encrypted when installed from the disk, that much I can confirm for every Steamworks game I have on a disk. So after unlocking you don't need to wait.

I can make it.... ahhh

More fuel for the fire, saw this on steams news page:
As if there was any doubt, Bethesda Softworks reveals plans to support Fallout: New Vegas with downloadable game add-ons, with an Xbox 360 exclusive pack coming out first. Hopefully they'll work this time.

Having released several downloadable add-ons for Fallout 3, it comes as no surprise that Bethesda has big plans for Fallout: New Vegas post-launch content. The cavalcade of downloadable goodness kicks off exclusively on the Xbox 360 sometime after the game's launch tomorrow.

"We're excited to continue the partnership between Bethesda and Microsoft, and build on the success of the game add-ons released for Fallout 3 on Xbox LIVE," said Pete Hines, VP of Marketing and PR of Bethesda Softworks. "Fans will once again be able to continue their experience in the Fallout universe with the add-on packs planned for after the launch of the game."

Hopefully these new add-ons will be released in working order, unlike some Fallout 3 add-on packs we could mention.

Specifics on the upcoming add-ons will be released at a later date.

Funny thing is, you guys only have to wait 30 more minutes.

It's the final stretch!

the only differences from the digi-distro & disc versions should be the pre-order extras (depending on where & if you preordered)

I went to bed on page 1 of this thread... and I couldn't sleep. Instead I will be calling into work tomorrow and staying up all night drinking and playing this game.

Thanks Steam! You make me a worse person!

It seems 30 hours away, but it's 1/60th mmm....