Hello,
I'm from Belgium and just spent my money on Fallout New Vegas.
I was very happy to see it in the shelves of the shop.

That was until I discovered installing steam was mandatory for the game.
Note: Steam is one of the main reasons I did not buy Dawn of War 2.

So then, lets install this thing I really do not want on my PC.
I create my account.

Then up to installing the game.
I click next ... then get a popup saying I can't install the game because it is not released yet ...

I agree it is my fault for a part, I should have checked before, as I did for Dawn of War 2.
But having Fallout 3, which did not need Steam, I never expected Fallout New Vegas to need steam as well.

So now, here I am with 43€ less in my bank account, the game in my Dvd player, but just because an internet site decided that it was too early I can't play it.

I must say i'm more than extremely disappointed.
Although I loved most Obsidian and Bethesda games, now I will be much more carefull before buying your games.

I'm playing games since more than 15 years, and it is the very first time I can't pley a game the day I buy it.

Hope I do not have to wait too long before Steam decides I'm allowed to get fun with the money I spent.

Imarion

It's approximately 6 hours until the game is unlocked for Europe (and I assume the rest of the world except for America which got it a few days early), as seen on the http://store.steampowered.com/app/22380/.

Yeah, technically your title should read "Day 0: Extremely disappointed." Maybe even Day -1.

Why not just... set your steam location to U.S.?

Does steam even check the address of the ip you are connected to it with?

Beats me, but I'm going to go out on a limb and say it's not possible, because if it was, none of the (PC-using) Europeans on here would be dying from the wait.

I'm from Belgium to (if that matters) and i'm not dissapointed. I knew what it was going to be since i learned my lesson with civilization V, wish i bought 3 days before steam release.
It's abit annoying that pirates and people who bought it on the consoles can play it, but meh...

It's not the wait that will kill you it's the horrible frame rates...

No discussion of piracy please.

OP: You can wait over here in our open area for this discussion:
http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1124626-european-launch-thread/