Look, I didn't have anything to do with time of unlock. I don't work for Bethesda. I am a volunteer like all the other moderators. We do this because we love this forum and we love this community. I've been moving threads, editing threads and being kind no matter what was said for about 14 or 15 hours straight now. I want this experience to be good for everyone. I am angry because discussion of torrents and piracy are against forum rules. If someone admits to such I have to ban them. If they even admit to intent to I have to ban them. If they discuss it I have to warn them because I am here to enforce the rules and no official game company wants to cater to pirating.

Now, if that makes me a control freak fine. But tell me via pm because it is also against forum rules to discuss moderator actions on the public forum.

Now, back to the rant at hand. Please.

My Pc version comes with a Caravan Pack

Why couldn't they release this on a weekend, so we could actually have time to play it!

:brokencomputer: <-- current state of PC game market.

One thing that comes to mind when people talk about how they're going to recommend to their buddies/customers/family to not buy a PC game due to one of these crap decisions made somewhere along the line like this one tonight..
I've been a PC game enthusiast since the beginning, and I've watched the deterioration of so many great games/projects that could have been amazing on PC go to complete crap or console port because console is where the money is at.
Yes, a healthy company needs to make money. But, how long is it going to be before companies just stop putting out PC games or go with the crappy console port junk approach. We pay 10x the price of a console for a gaming rig, and only far and few in between do we get rewarded with games that are developed with the PC gamer in mind vs console.

(insert name of company here that started out as a PC game company) -- Now putting out console exclusives, and providing its original fan base with console port junk.
The biggest of example I can think of, is while reading a gaming magazine, and finding out that ID SOFTWARE(of all flipping companies), in regards to the upcoming game RAGE made the developers/programmers play with console controllers to perfect those versions before PC. If that's not a terrible sign for pc gaming, I don't know what is.

/end rant. 20 minutes to go

20 minutes? It's still 23 minutes for me. IF YOU GET IT FIRST I'M GOING TO SCREEEEEEEAAAAAAAAM!

Well I'm tired, so I'm going to bed. I'd recommend the same for anyone else who is tired, though I highly doubt anyone will take my advice.
Fallout will still be here tomorrow (or I guess at this point of time, later today), and I would like to be well rested for the 12 hour Fallout Marathon tomorrow/later today.
Good luck with the midnight release guys. If steam doesn't release on time, please rage enough for me as well.

I will I promise to rage

Will I be able to play this game offline?

You need to go online during the install, but then you can take Steam into "offline mode" and then you can play it offline.

Yes after you activate it online

You log into Steam to authorize the game, then you can play in offline mode.
(wow lots of ninja's tonight haha)

You know, it just now occurred to me I could have been checking out all the extras from the Collector's Edition, instead of pretending to sleep so I wouldn't bother the wifey.

(Understand this is due to idiocracy with Steam and not solely Bethesda's issue entirely, but they do collaborate and Bethesda is the client so they could have dictated how this went down.) To put this in perspective for those who don't get it when people are irked about not playin something they bought, or even being able to install it...

I am 40 something years old and been gaming since many of you were little more than a thought. I work 58+ hours a week, go to school full time and have kids to tend to and worked out a deal for the wife to let me sleep in till 9-10 so i could play this morning.

For me, a lot of planning went around this and not even being able to install the software let alone play is just a poor business model for any type of security. "Hey the bank opens at 8 normally but the guards don't want to come in till 11 so you'll just have to want to access your safe deposit box." When I pre-ordered I was never told "Hey old dude, you can buy it at midnight but you can't play for 3 hours after.) That would have saved me spending 8 hours of PTO ($240.00 $30.00/hr) to play a $75 game. Sure I have all day but thats 3-4 hours playtime I was robbed of on my planned New Vegas vacation!

As for coding to determine your timezone, that can be done in about 3 different ways, from the system settings, IP or super secret method.

I bought the collectors editions of FO3 and FNV and several other Bethesda products through the years including the original Arena: The Elder Scrolls, which sits up there with the old school greats like Betrayal at Krondor. I loved the first 2 Fallout games but missed the off color humor and presentation of the first two. FO3 grew on me, as a FPS but it was something alltogether different than the fallout I had come to know and love. To cost me all of this time and lost play because of poor project management and the failure of the one core project planning principle, the customer's wants and needs. I can honestly say I do not think they thought of the EST, CST PC players who would vest their time and money to support a midnight release only to go home and be unable to even install the product.

<3 to the Fallout OG's working on FNV I know you put something in there for me. I just hope its not like the armwrestling Supermutant that beats you and after the screen blacks out you wake to find a couple items including a ballgag in your inventory.

:celebration: Almost time!
If anything good (tasty even) is to come from this thread..

Preheat your oven to 350
Slice up a few potatoes in to poker chip sized slices
Add a lil sea salt to each
Add a couple sprinkles of your favorite hot sauce to each (best if you take the time to make a design with it)
Put them on a baking sheet, and cook each side for about 5 minutes or until crisp
Turn off oven

You're now enjoying Dutch's Buffalo Poker Chip snacks, while enjoying your much deserved game.

Happy hunting!

I just want to say this now before the game is released in less than 10 minutes. So here it is. Good release steam. You released it exactly when you said you would, and the servers didn't have any problem with the large numbers of people trying to start the game up at the same time. Thank you for making sure the game launched and was playable on release day.

So to all those other people (the majority) not to concerned about this lets enjoy the game.

Lowlightt-

I understand the need to research. I researched this game since day 1, constantly getting updated information. I think it svcks and all, but honestly, it just didn't occur to me to look at any non-game-based aspect, and I think that's a pretty easy oversight. Do you normally check to be sure games work on day 1? I just kind of assume they will... then again I was on day 1 of Star Wars Galaxies...

Man, I'm getting so loopy I'm hoping when I wake up sometime Tuesday there won't be a tree growing out of my head.

4 minutes

I just had to chip in on the, "its rediculous to have us wait for another time zone to play this game" side whether it hurts me or not it just seems bad for future business...

TIME TO PLAY!!!!!

except it still says 'its not released yet' when i try to install it. [censored] this bull!

Aaaand it's unlocked.

3:02 here and still can't install.......

ok release the [censored] game already.

Me niether