Well if I did not realize it, and went over my monthly limit, they would charge me 2c per mb. That must be hundreds of dollars for 30gb.!!

At least I'm forewarned, and will buy the bandwidth. Live in the sticks with mobile internet.

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If they'll let us.

That's good. Otherwise I would be wasting my day off waiting for the entire game to download instead of playing it.

It will be released on Valve time guaranteed. Never seen any game release where Valve managed to keep the promised and announced time. They are a chaotic game renting service.

still no official news on steam. =(

So if it unlocks on Steam at 12:01 EST which is UTC-5 hours does that mean that Hawaii gets to play the game 5 hours earlier since HAST is UTC-10 hours? My time is MST (UTC-7 hours), so my hope is that I can play the game two hours earlier but it's all unclear.

Yes, they said that all of North America will unlock at midnight EST, so some people will get to play as early as 9 pm on the 9th. I would assume Hawaii will get lumped in with North America, since it's part of the USA.

Maybe his wife is Scarlett Johansson.

This was my assumption, but thank you for some confirmation on that. So I can play at 10:01 pm on the 9th, cool. But actually, since Hawaii should be included that means they can play at 7:01 pm.

But I can't help but wonder...if someone really wants to play the game early, what's keeping them from changing their time zone to something like Hawaii for a bit to fool Steam so they can play 5 hours early?

You'd have to use a VPN, not just change your system clock, since Steam can tell where you're connecting from. I've heard of people doing stuff like this to get around regional restrictions, but I believe that sort of thing is frowned upon. Who wants to risk their Steam account to unlock a game a few hours early?

I meant to imply a VPN of course since system time doesn't affect ip addresses, but yes it's a pretty risky move and I wouldn't recommend or condone it myself.

Ok this may sound stupid but will it unlock at 0001 local time or USA time (doesn't matter which time zone ) because Europe is about 6 hours a head so I could set it downloading be for I go to bed or before college (got to go in )

Only North America is simultaneous at midnight EST. Other regions unlock at midnight local time, except Asia, which is noon on the 10th (except Japan).

The stickied post is very clear that all US time zones unlock 12:01 am EST

My Steam unlock time is 3 am EST also

Is Bethesda aware of this?

The Steam unlock timer has just updated. It now correctly says "6 days and 11 hours" (it rounds up to whole hours).

Steam also says that it's now being released November 9 instead of November 10 and will unlock at 9PM PST (my local time). Take from that what you will.

(it's very common for Steam's unlock timers to be off until some time during the last day before launch, so don't take that timer to be gospel)

while it does say that, the exact time(at least for my timezone) in days/hours would make it the 9th at midnight, so basically its still the 10th

The ninth at midnight is actually 24 hours prior to the start of the 10th.

The other midnight.

That is actually exactly the correct time for those in PST. First time I have seen that Steam got it right.

Of course none of that has anything to do with when Steam actually unlocks. They are often a bit late.

Huh. I thought Bethesda games typically unlocked at midnight local time; I'd love to see it unlock at 9PM instead, but I'm not expecting it.

Also, SteamDB apparently has it unlocking at midnight of the ninth, 24 hours ahead of the start of the 10th (though I don't know which time zone that is, or why they'd do that).

Stop being so pedantic

That is super pedantic, it's true. I don't know where you're from langy but in the US midnight is 12:00 am and is only written as 00:00 in US military time so that is not at all standard. Also, clearly SteamDB either has the wrong info or you're reading it wrong. So in the US, as stated, since it's unlocking for the states at 12:01 am on the 10th eastern time, that means other US timezones will get to play earlier. This has been officially verified.

I live in CA; I use a 24 hour clock because it's more intuitive. 12:00 AM is exactly identical to 00:00; both happen on the same day, which is the same day as the following 12:00 (PM), just like 8:00 is during the eight o' clock hour, not during the seven o' clock hour.

In any case, it wasn't a pedantic correction. SteamDB states that Fallout 4 will unlock at 12 AM of the 9th of November, 24 hours prior to the start of the 10th. This changed recently, with no particular explanation as to why.

Ha I definitely agree that the military time is more intuitive and easier to use but we don't tend to use the most intuitive systems here, it's just one of the funny ways we do things in the US...our dates are backwards like month-day instead of day-month, we use imperial measurements instead of the easy and effective metric, and so on. Silly 'Merica.

But maybe SteamDB is wrong somehow, or the info it is reading has it wrong and Steam needs to fix it? Cause I can't imagine Steam unlocking a game 24 hours early without the dev's consent, that wouldn't go well.