But… Today’s October 14th

[u/Zmann1218]

Not sure if I need to uninstall the game or something but it won’t launch on my Deck. I was looking forward to this all day too

EDIT: Excuse me, y’all. Haven’t pre-ordered or played anything launch day since the seventh gen days. Looking forward to playing in two hours!

[u/Easily_distractd]

The game releases in 1 hour.

[u/vezwyx → u/Easily_distractd]

12 am EST is in 2 hours

[u/invalid_uses_of → u/vezwyx]

I'm in EST and it's telling me 1 hour.

[u/vezwyx → u/invalid_uses_of]

I'm like 95% sure that's a quirk of how they choose to display the remaining time. The game is set to release at 12 am, which is less than 2 hours away, so they chose to display "approximately 1 hour" for this case. I wager it will switch to minutes remaining when it's under 1 hour

[u/vezwyx → u/invalid_uses_of]

Yeah the deck store interface shows exactly how long is left: 1 hr 42 minutes

[u/Bleppybwip → u/invalid_uses_of]

Yeah nah that's 1 hour, INCLUDING whatever minutes are left. When it gets down it'll say "under 1 hour" usually or a countdown for the final hour. It's always funny seeing this confuse the shit out of people. Really should just make it a regular count down.

[u/dreddi84 → u/Easily_distractd]

2 hours , now 1 hour and 8 mins

[u/Zmann1218 → u/Easily_distractd]

Really? Excuse my naivety, I haven’t pre-ordered a game since the 360 days haha. Well shoot. Hopefully it finishes redownloading in the next hour!

[u/gunpler_1]

October 14th doesn't mean at 00:01, it just means during October 14th, just wait a bit more, shouldn't be long anymore the store page should give an estimate of the countdown as well.

[u/Sufficient_Room2619]

This is what it's like being an Australian

[u/sarcasticmedic92]

Chill.

[u/LittleSubForLife]

The equivalent

https://giphy.com/gifs/BySaedJhQNXjy

[u/RespectThePlight]

That’s the curse

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[u/Remote_Coast_115]

Time zones claim another victim on launch day lol.

[u/Spangozilla]

THATS WHAT I SAID TOO

[u/TheMastican]

Ha, I've been playing it on Switch about half of the day.

[u/HouselessGamer]

Steam likes yanking my chain lmao

[u/Zmann1218 → u/HouselessGamer]

I accidentally hit launch and it opened to the controller screen. You better believe my heart fluttered for a moment, only to be greeted by that same screen hahaha

[u/ProjectSnowman]

Restart?

[u/Zmann1218 → u/ProjectSnowman]

Gave it a restart, had to apply yesterday’s update anyway. Redownloading the game now. Hopefully that works

[u/ihopkid → u/Zmann1218]

It legit says on the store page when it’s coming out lol does not release for another hour

[u/Zmann1218 → u/ihopkid]

Excuse my ignorance haha, I had it preloaded on my home page. Haven’t pre-ordered or played a game on launch day in a long time

[u/ihopkid → u/Zmann1218]

No worries lol all good only reason I know is I’ve been watching the timer on the store page count down the hours since this morning

[u/Zmann1218 → u/ihopkid]

https://giphy.com/gifs/CDeuq3qH8CfUpum9Nw
Me for the next hour:

[u/VinceMajestyk]

Yeah, kind of pissed. I got home from work all excited to play and it just kept telling me "Coming Oct 15, 2026" and I'm like, "yeah, that's right now." Kind of a dumb way to handle.

[u/Zmann1218 → u/VinceMajestyk]

Yeah, it’s a bummer but we’re only a couple hours away! Unfortunately, my girlfriend is coming over and I’ll be making dinner by the time it’s ready haha. Have all the fun for me, I’ll likely be joining in tomorrow

[u/VinceMajestyk → u/Zmann1218]

Yeah, I have to wake up at 5 in the morning, so I ain't staying up to play. Guess there's always tomorrow after work!