[GS] Release time on Steam is wrong?

Sadly, I believe you are correct. We won't really be playing at 12am EST, we will be anxiously cheering on the progress bar on the download.

 

It looks like Steam corrected the mistake. Now it shows this.
Available: February 13
This game will unlock in approximately 11 hours

That's midnight EST. I live in Texas so 11pm tonight for me.

As for internet prices here in the states, yes they are ridiculous, especially if the only thing available is satellite. I'm currently paying $155 for 50 GB a month with download speeds of 20-40 Mbps. Yes, satellite has data limits and it sucks. The 600+ ms pings are bad even for Civ 6 multiplayer.

 

Even if there was a preload, you'd be waiting on a progress bar for decryption and update. Some titles, that can take most of an hour itself.

 

If it's the same size as R&F it should take about 5 minutes tops

 

I just tested my speed and it's 140Mb./s.

Yup, R&F was just a few minutes for me.


Edit: Thanks Mod for fixing, didn't mean to post two replies in a row.

 

I'm in Pacific Canada so it won't be stupid late when it becomes available.

 

We finally had someone in and break the comcast monopoly around my parts . . . I ditched immediately and now have a a 150 megabits connection for $50/month. I could theory get a gigabit connection though the same people but I don't really see the point. I have like three devices so it's not like I'm running a server farm.

 

Holy crap! And here I was, thinking we are being sodomized by the oligopolies in Canuckistan...

 

which will be 1 hour for me. At least an hour, maybe longer.

I'm stuck with Cox monopoly. Especially since Clear went away (which was wireless and not all that fast).

 

And here I was thinking my 470mbps was slow...

 

The waiting. The waiting. First it was weeks. Then it was days. Now it is mere hours. But WAIT!...I have to work tomorrow. Can't play until I get home at 3:30. Arrgh! Cue the 70's Heinz Ketchup comercial and Carly Simon's song "Anticipation":

Anticipation, anticipation
Is making me late
Is keeping me waiting.

 

Steam now says it will be playable in 9 hours...

 

My 7 year old daughter wrote on her Calendar on February 14th:

Yay!
new Civ
expansion!

She had to ask me how to spell "expansion" and "civ" of course.

 

You have raised her well.

 

Reason #5891 while I left Florida and never looked back

 

Australian internet is in the process of being upgraded nationwide.

In an area already completed I can now get maybe 40mbs down on a good day. And I pay $70 per month. Pretty load would be much appreciated

 

I'm in the EST time zone, so GS will unlock at midnight tonight for me. I'll be in bed then, but I plan on getting the ball started on the download when I wake up tomorrow. Is it enough to just open Steam before I leave for work, or do I have to click some kind of "Start Download" button somewhere? I completely forget the process from past expansions My goal is to be able to play as soon as I get home from work, without have to sit around watching the progress bar all evening.

 

I introduced my 5-year old daughter to Prison Architect for a laff (she'll get bored after 2 minutes I thought) and now she's obsessed. We're right now trying to work out how best to shoot our worst offenders dead out of hand before they get incapacitated and put in solitary. I may have erred.

Still, it teaches you about life and that.

 

Suddenly 7 hours left, holy moly

Technically I have the day off until the evening tomorrow, so if I wanna get up at 6 am when it comes out then I technically could lol

 

What!? Please don't eat in front of the starving hungry!