When I purchased Modern Warfare 2 (a Steam game) at a midnight launch I was able to play it as soon as I got home here in the UK. People who pre-ordered it on Steam however couldnt play it until later on in the day. Steam game unlocking and Steam game activation arnt the same thing. Of course this is just my own experiences.

I ordered for 360. I also plan on getting for the PC but if this is true then I'm not.

Should be unlocked Midnight Atlantic time for North America, which is 11PM EDT. But most likely it'll actually be unlocked Midnight EDT.

So are we actually saying that PC users, who purchase the physical game, legitimately, from Obsidian/Bethesda, have to create an account through a non affiliated company before being able to even LOAD the game the you have LEGALLY and PROPERLY purchased. Holy hell, I'm glad I'm buying for the 360. This kind of BS is... is... is... :swear: :nuke:

Im going for the midnight release and I bought it for PC... I would think that steam would have an impact on FNV if steam were installed... why not just uninstall steam if you have it already, or just not install steam to lock the game?

Not to mention the patching process steam uses that takes a half a day to begin with, when the game is installed! Ha, if you have steam, and fallout new vegas, get ready to wait until the 18th to play FNV

Don't get so worked up over this, I have faith that it will be unlocked tuesday morning at 12am, and I will be playing all night long!

To clarify, Fallout NV PC is a Steamworks game. What that means is that no matter where you buy your PC version, you have to use Steam to play it. That means Steam has to be installed. It also means that your computer has to be connected to the internet when you install the game so that Steam can verify your copy is legit (a form of copy protection). After that you can tell Steam to go into "offline" mode and not bother with an internet connection again. What the Steamworks connection also means is that until Steam considers the game active and opens up the servers to accept the copy protection check, the game will not work. The question at this point is whether Steam's countdown clock (which points to the middle of the day on the 19th, varying by timezone) is when we can play or if they will move that up to midnight given the GameStop midnight launch event. As noted in an earlier post, moderator GStaff told us he was looking into that question a few days ago and also said it might not be until Monday before he would have an answer.

So I am preloading the game right now, and when the game unlocks, is will also unlock the files of the game. I am not sure if the time for the unlocking applies to unlocking the game files or when activation is allowed.

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