Here it's always just saying "Soon" and the INSTALL button wouldn't do anything now. But -- good to know. Thanks for the info!

Guess we just think that people should stop to pre-order. Don't give money in advance and be far more relaxed eventually...

Well no... You are right of course,that is the easiest solution. Problem with this is that it will not solve the issue, just avoid it. As was done with all other issues in gaming industry. Let's keep our heads down, Gods forbid do not dare to complain publicly and just... deal with it. Gaming as whole is not that much important, but rules governing it remain the same as everywhere else. The less you complain (ideally somewhat constructively), the more you will get things to complain about in the future. Same story with the way they treat you in your workplace, same story with politics, same story with relations etc. If there is a problem, ignoring it will only let it grow bigger. Nothing bad ever goes away on its own.

0 o clock where? GOG has never released at midnight (And Steam doesn't either, for that matter). I don't know if GOG has a specific time, but Steam is always 10AM Pacific time (Either PST or PDT, depending on the time of year). That translates to 7 or 8 PM for you.

By fair is to expect to get what you pay for, which you have. in a very short time.

The problem with most first world problems is that they... well... they are not much of a problem... So take a sensible route and ignore them? life becomes a) much easier and b) less hectic if you do.

there are demands, and then there are unreasonable demands (imo). The whole release on a specific time is an unreasonable one, i think, there are always something which can go wrong. the only demand you have a right to, is to get the product you have paid for. it is reasonable to complain if this do not happen.

and as said, you will get what you have paid for.

I didn't write that you people have no right to complain but why should a company care about your complains when they already got your money?
Every fucking time you people complain but still do pre-orders with the same fucking results although you should know better! You don't like DLC? Only buy the games when all DLCs are released and bundled with the game. Start to learn from your mistakes and stop to behave like fucking junkies who need their fix! The world doesn't go down when you don't have "The New Shit".

You need to login and check on the GOG website. Galaxy doesnt show you the countdown.

That games on PC are not avaible on release day is only due online plattforms like Steam and GoG. I highly doubt that we should accept it as the standard, because outside this plattforms it is not. We have to deal with it, yeah, for sure, but I will bitch about it.

11 pm for you is 11 am somewhere else... The world is round and the time zones go all around too. With region locks and copy protection and machine lock (game locked to the device it has been installed on) you can of course have it released at ie 9 o'clock in the morning in all countries.

Absolutely right /mironator/ and /ZoroasterK/ we should indeed complain about them. I want that game with my pretzels in the early morning :p ! No to be serious: Shops in Germany are opened at 8 a.m. and close usually at 8 p.m.. In some areas in Germanys its even forbidden that shops have opened after 8 p.m.. So talking about retail selling times and getting bossed around by online platforms. A friend of mine already got his PHYSICAL copy and can't play until 7 p.m. bcz of the steam release time... :D:D

! IN the German support GOG.com Team staff /ExpressRising/ posted that the countdown timer is buggy and the game is released at 7 p.m. on GoG just like on Steam:

gog.com/forum/general_de/elex_gogversion_1/post29

Translates: "Hello, sorry for the confusion. Just told my colleauges that the countdown is wrong. It will be going live here at 7 p.m. like everywhere else."

voted. I wish I could vote three times for this game.

You think that's bad? I've already got my PS4 physical copy in this morning from Amazon and I can't play it until 9pm.

That's not because of any arbitrary DRM locks though. I have to work until 7pm, then I have to feed and take my daughter to bed, then I'd like to spend a bit of time with the wife.

I'm not the one with the problem. ;) I simply don't understand all the drama. RELAX! It's a beautiful day.

Well, that's your right I guess, but if you choose to bitch about it in a public forum, expect to be called out for making such a drama out of it.

If your time is so precious that you have to set aside time in advance to play, it should be logical that the actual release date is the worst time to set aside. I mean, let's be quite honest here - anyone who has played a Piranha Bytes game, Germans in particular, should be acutely aware of the risks of playing a PB game on release day and expecting it to work smoothly. Release day for major RPGs is not the day to be playing it if your time is precious and limited and you want to be enjoying the experience.

Actually I'm not the one making a drama out of it. I just find it perfecty normal to expect a game being playable on release day. After all the game is promoted getting released on the 17th of october. I'm just amazed that people nowadays find it perfectly fine not being able to. This is not normal.