Is it me or is the countdown clock wrong?

[Hamma]

I'm sure they have good reasons for doing what they are doing. They are trying hard to get this right and get a solid build out there for everyone.

[Crator]

I'm just waiting for the timer to run out and it to say "Soon" as a placeholder after...

[Witchkrapht]

Had considered calling in sick to work tomorrow....but I already know it's going to be crazy.

[Fear The Amish]

Originally Posted by Witchkrapht

Had considered calling in sick to work tomorrow....but I already know it's going to be crazy.

thought of same thing but a few of my co-workers play with me so i would get busted pretty quickly

[Witchkrapht]

Originally Posted by Fear The Amish

thought of same thing but a few of my co-workers play with me so i would get busted pretty quickly

haha! I used to work with some guys that I played Age of Conan with....and they always knew when my guild would wipe on raid night because I'd call in sick Thursday. I always got called out on that!

[TanknSpank]

Originally Posted by thegreekboy

I'm sorry, but what the hell is the reasoning for opening downloads at 10 AM? Better Idea. You release as midnight, and as the day goes by, more and more people start downloading the game until it peaks at around 5PM.

Isn't the 10AM PST launch the same worldwide? So no matter what they'll hit prime-time and off-peak regions somewhere. I imagine the choice of time has something to do with having their largest staff present a couple hours before go time without having to call them in in the middle of the night (when they'll probably have to work some crazy OT fixing issues the first week).

[Roidster]

so can we download the new client yet??or do we have to wait till 10 am tomorrow

[Bloodroot]

Need to wait till tomorrow :/ noone is happy bout it!

[Minor]

I figured Smedley and Higby were force by the entire soe staff to let them sleep for once in 2 years. They agreed under duress to leave them alone for 4 days.

Oddly enough, Vlad the impaler comes to mind as the developer team sharpen 2 large tree trunks into 2 fine pointed gradual spikes.

Also 4 days to prepare an industrial quantity of tacos, nachos, and chili cheese dogs is not a lot.

I'm tired, bomb you in the morning!

[Realmofdarkness]

the time is good for us in europe. The game launch is at 7pm for me
enough time to go home from work, make dinner and eat and then prepere for the... loong download

[Sunrock]

Originally Posted by thegreekboy

I'm sorry, but what the hell is the reasoning for opening downloads at 10 AM? Better Idea. You release as midnight, and as the day goes by, more and more people start downloading the game until it peaks at around 5PM.

Seems like they get a better server load (more people waking up to download it, and steady downloads throughout the day) rather than FORCING everyone to download it when they get home from work.

What the hell is SOE's logic?

Maybe because SOE is on the west coast and they don't want to go in to work at 1 am?

[Morsong]

anyone else going to be there the last 5 seconds of the countdown? I wonder if it'll do anything special when it hits 0 before it lets us d/l and open the site up. Probably not though.

[RadarX]

Originally Posted by Crator

I'm just waiting for the timer to run out and it to say "Soon" as a placeholder after...

I suggested if necessary we use "Bazinga!" but apparently it's copyrighted.

Folks have been in all night working on last minute things. Launch day is always tricky but the game is still on track for launch.

[NoDachi]

Translated: High probability of delays.

But I'm fine with that, I would have been surprised if it was otherwise.

[RSphil]

where will we be able to download it from? im assuming from the planetside page when the timer hits 0?
would have been nice for Alpha squad or sub members to pre load. its going to be a slow download with the mass of people waiting