Time of Release

[Albertan Civfanatic]

What time on Feb. 6 will the game release? I assume there is pre download say on Wednesday?

 

[Eagle Pursuit]

They had some times up earlier today, but they took them down to revise them.

 

[Nic@Melbourne]

Steam is saying 12th rather than 11th for Australia. Which usually means a later release time in US on 11th. If it’s a midnight release we normally get it same day but in afternoon here.
No info on early access.

 

[Albertan Civfanatic]

So, the game releases at 12 midnight on Feb. 6?

 

[Ebon-Hawke-]

So, the game releases at 12 midnight on Feb. 6?

I think we are still waiting for the updated time zone release schedule they had posted earlier this week before deleting. It showed 6pm EST 9pm PST on 2/5 for pc

 

[theadder]

It was 3 PM PST.

 

[Leyrann]

I think we are still waiting for the updated time zone release schedule they had posted earlier this week before deleting. It showed 6pm EST 9pm PST on 2/5 for pc

It was 3 PM PST.

So then it'd be midnight GMT+1, aka continental Europe's time.

 

[Ornen]

England isn’t in the game so it would hardly make sense to release it on GMT

 

[Leyrann]

England isn’t in the game so it would hardly make sense to release it on GMT

I'm not sure what you mean?

 

[Lord Yanaek]

England isn’t in the game so it would hardly make sense to release it on GMT

Well, then they should probably release on UTC

 

[Sprenk]

I think we are still waiting for the updated time zone release schedule they had posted earlier this week before deleting. It showed 6pm EST 9pm PST on 2/5 for pc

Problem is, 6 pm EST would be 3 pm PST, not 9pm PST, for a simultaneous release!

I'm guessing someone at Firaxis had a time zone brain freeze, and that what they intended was 12 midnight EST on Feb 6th, which would be 9 pm PST on the 5th. Because of the confusion, they apparently took the post down and decided to wait till Monday to get it sorted.

 

[theadder]

It’s hard to know what the true release time is, and so we’ll need to wait. The document had a lot of errors.

 

[Ornen]

Problem is, 6 pm EST would be 3 pm PST, not 9pm PST, for a simultaneous release!

I'm guessing someone at Firaxis had a time zone brain freeze, and that what they intended was 12 midnight EST on Feb 6th, which would be 9 pm PST on the 5th. Because of the confusion, they apparently took the post down and decided to wait till Monday to get it sorted.

unfortunately we have already heard the good news. I call no take-backsies, 6pm EST it is

 

[StargazingDog]

 

[Eagle Pursuit]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1886467196085207373

 

[j51]

Awww bummer. I was really excited for 6pm est!

 

[Zaarin]

Awww bummer. I was really excited for 6pm est!

Yes, now that they told us 6 PM EST, I think they should have to stick with it.

 

[The_J]

Moderator Action: We now got the info here https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/civilization-vii-global-release-timing.694611/ , therefore thread closed .