Jake Posted September 17, 2022 Share Posted September 17, 2022 14 minutes ago, KestrelPi said: It's not a huge deal but Devolver maybe underestimated how many people this would make grumpy. What with the series having a bigger following in europe and of course the UK having a day off on release day. Releases always make someone grumpy. If they’d released it at a convenient European time Americans would have been mad instead (including the developers, who in my experience always prefer to release games at times convenient to them in case some surprise goes wrong). They probably should have given the time earlier but beyond that I don’t think there’s a way to please more people and also ensure the day is as positive as possible for the developers (though as I pointed out up thread, if anyone looked at the public Nintendo documentation for the region where the developer, publisher, and license holder are located it says downloadable games release at 9am pacific.) 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThunderPeel2001 Posted September 17, 2022 Author Share Posted September 17, 2022 (edited) Yes, the release time makes perfect sense. I hate rolling things out outside of office hours. It's not just a case of having to work outside of normal hours, but also if anything goes wrong with a service/partner you're using, you can't get anyone on the phone to help out. 9am PDT makes perfect sense... sadly. Edited September 17, 2022 by ThunderPeel2001 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remi Posted September 17, 2022 Share Posted September 17, 2022 Don’t know what you’re all complaining about, it works perfectly for me. 1 4 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garystu Posted September 17, 2022 Share Posted September 17, 2022 Oh boy! 2 am! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MichaelSon Posted September 17, 2022 Share Posted September 17, 2022 22 hours ago, Alexandra IDV said: Sounds like I'll be able to start playing immediately after finishing up work on Monday, so works out great for me. Unfortunate for British folks who already have the day off, though. Same here. Looking forward to it 😀 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vainamoinen Posted September 17, 2022 Share Posted September 17, 2022 5 hours ago, KestrelPi said: It's not a huge deal but Devolver maybe underestimated how many people this would make grumpy. What with the series having a bigger following in europe and of course the UK having a day off on release day. I don't think Europeans are Devolver's target group here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Threepwood4life Posted September 17, 2022 Share Posted September 17, 2022 Im glad i booked Tuesday off in advance, I had a feeling it would be early evening in the UK it would be released on Steam Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thrik Posted September 17, 2022 Share Posted September 17, 2022 Yeah I think they should have signalled this sooner to avoid exactly what has happened, which is people taking time off work (as fate would have it not an issue for those in the UK now). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LowLevel Posted September 17, 2022 Share Posted September 17, 2022 For me (CET time zone) it is perfect. I assumed that Monday would be a normal work day for me and after work I could install the game. Instead, I took the break from work for Tuesday. It will be my Full Monkey Day! 🙂 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThunderPeel2001 Posted September 17, 2022 Author Share Posted September 17, 2022 (edited) 2 hours ago, Thrik said: Yeah I think they should have signalled this sooner to avoid exactly what has happened, which is people taking time off work (as fate would have it not an issue for those in the UK now). At least they gave a time. The launch of Tales left me traumatised… (sorry Jake) Edited September 17, 2022 by ThunderPeel2001 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake Posted September 17, 2022 Share Posted September 17, 2022 1 hour ago, ThunderPeel2001 said: sorry Jake Apology accepted Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KestrelPi Posted September 17, 2022 Share Posted September 17, 2022 To clarify, I wasn't really saying they could make everyone happy - I just meant that I bet Devolver aren't used to releasing a game that is made in the USA but the fanbase skews so heavily european, since mostly they release games from newish franchises without an established base, and it's not definite but possible they might have made a few different decisions. If they had more experience in this area, for example, might they have considered that by not putting the game up on GOG they are missing a trick since it seems to be pretty big in Germany, for instance. (Heck, the reasons that some people seem to utterly despise Valve but love CD Projekt of all people still baffles me and no conversation I've had about it has ever completely cleared it up in my mind, but hey, this seems to be A Thing). Or they might have considered releasing it on a midweek date so that they could release it at 3pm Pacific and around midnight in Europe. As I said, it's not a big deal and I don't feel strongly about it, it's just an idle musing, which is all I can really do until I can play it. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laserschwert Posted September 18, 2022 Share Posted September 18, 2022 Successfully moved my day off from Monday to Tuesday. Bring it on! 5 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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