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Destiny PS4 pre-load available now
- Thread starter th4tguy
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Revolutionary
Member
Steam has 3am, 12pm and 1pm Eastern releases as well. In my experience the 1pm releases are the most common, which is far worse than the 3am situation we're currently facing.
Pretty sure it's a publisher decision anyway.
Answer to both questions: Because they need to maintain a good relationship with the retailers.
u wot?
I have a question guys. I preordered the digital guardian edition for the ps4 a couple weeks back, and a few days ago the installers/vanguard add on was downloaded to my ps4. I can't figure out how to actually download the large 17ish gig file for destiny though. When I go to the app on the dashboard and the ps store, it gives me a countdown timer for destiny, but also gives me an option to preorder it for 60 bucks. Did my order not go through or something? I don't have an option to download. Can I delete the installer and reinstall it?
Revolutionary
Member
Press Options then Information. It'll tell you the status of the download.
As for the buy option, I'm pretty sure it'll go away come Tuesday.
ok whhy would sony set different times for different games?
PrivateWHudson
Member
Is Sony not a retailer? If they had the ability to release per time zone, and not per region, why would they ever agree to such a contract?
serenewarfare
Banned
Okay, then why would Sony release almost every other big PS4 game (Infamous, TLoU, Madden, NHL, etc.) at Midnight EST and suddenly choose Destiny as the one they wait until Midnight PST for?
Thank you!
PrivateWHudson
Member
Half of those are published by Sony, so they can break street date however they want. As for the other two, are they EA? Maybe EA just doesn't care if they break west coast, where Activision does care.
Edit: to maybe clarify my point, isn't street date just that, the day that it can release? What you're saying is that every physical retailer has a street date of 9/9, but Acti, specificity gave Sony multiple street dates. 9/9 for the west coast, and 9/9 3am for the east coast. Doesn't add up to me.
SocksAndShoes
Banned
I have the game downloaded, but it never downloaded the Vanguard stuff. Anyone else have this problem?
th4tguy
Member
I'm sure it's because they have no automated system for doing it. There is literally a person who probably has to change an option to make it available. Sony needs to seriously update their backend. I'm still waiting for an option to change my psn id.
th4tguy
Member
Everyone has this issue. It will be unlocked when the game is unlocked. No worries.
th4tguy
Member
I've noticed it tends to be based off where the developer is located. Bungie is in Cali which is PST. All of the Sony titles were dictated by Sony and I'm sure they said specifically they wanted midnight EST.
Sony has said many times, its up to the developer when the game unlocks. I bet anything most of these devs said to Sony, "midnight, date xyz" and Sony said, "ok, lets see midnight your time it is!"
Melchiah
Member
I live in Finland, and the counter displays 1d 02:22 right now, which is exactly at midnight here.
Really excited here, my preload is done, all i have to do is wait.
See you online
how do you get to this screen?
Press Option button when you are on Destiny in system and go to Information.
Pandora012
Member
It's more of a US problem everyone there has to wait until PST. So it'll be couple of hours past midnight.
Melchiah
Member
Ah, I thought it was at midnight everywhere.
more specifically it's more of a "US/Canada with 4 times zones" problem. a problem a relatively small number of other counties have.
Pandora012
Member
Nope I'm one of the few that has to wait till 3 am. I'm just going to wake up earlier and play some before class.
You would think they could do rolling release by time zone.
problem is there's no real way to determine "where" someone is in the US that can't be gamed/tricked. Easier/smarter to just set a US unlock time as a whole.
CrackaF3tt
Member
I won't be buying digital on big console games unless it's midnight est. I'm use to it on steam but at least I could use a VPN to unlock it early. A couple of my friends won't be able to join me because of this. Smh
Melchiah
Member
That sucks, but what can you do. I'd prefer an evening release myself, as I can't play it for long at that hour. If at all, in case the PSN gets overloaded.
There *are* ways to do it that would make timezone spoofing too much of a nuisance to bother with but then we'd get threads a few times a month from the handful of ppl who legitimately moved between timezones complaining that they wait an extra hour or two for a game to unlock.
Of course there will always be some complaining, going back years any big digital release on PC would always see a few ppl bitching that they can't unlock it early. Like the fact that it's "tomorrow" in Europe already and they can play is an outrage. I wonder if that's why some companies, especially for mmo's, use 12am pacific time as the start and make the release date the next day for Asia/Europe etc.
Citizen_Insane
Member
Just the vanguard pack and if you pre-order at Gamestop, a red sparrow. Nothing important. The vanguard pack just makes the beginning of the game a bit easier.
Deadceptor
Member
24 hours to go. Although my "Pre-order charged" email said it'll unlock 23:00 (11:00 PM).
Hold me.
Hold me.
DOWN
Banned
Red Sparrow isn't even really a thing. If you read the fine print, all of its performance enhancements can be matched on the other sparrows without DLC just by in game progressions, and the skin is available starting after January 15.
Admiral Woofington
Member
honestly as sad as I am that I cant play it midnight, I probably only would have created my character and gotten to the Tower, and that's it. I have a busy morning. So all this means is that I have to do it the day after/
postcyberpunk
Banned
But who will ban people during that time?
BMO = GOAT
Member
It comes with the normal game download, i think.
th4tguy
Member
I'll add to that. I think the Guardian stuff is part of the main game, but only unlocked for those with the Guardian edition.
DOWN
Banned
Like on disc DLC that they'll sell later? Or like its part of the game and this is more of a paid shortcut to use it without earning it?
So....are you saying you won't be around?
Hoooooooly fuck. It's gonna be like the Purge around huuur.
th4tguy
Member
Like on disk dlc
I'm having the same problem as him, it's not that we got an error code like everybody else and it still shows up as installed under add ons. We standard digital owners got nothing at all, no download error, no vanguard notification that shows it's downloading, no add ons tab under related items, no add ons under library, we got nothing.
You won't get the ps4 version until you unlock the ps3 version. Sorry
Raven Prime
Member
You'll probably be able to do that when the game is unlocked.