Guess the release time!

[Traz]

All right all Start Guessing.

Here is a handy dandy World Clock DooHicky so you don't have to think of all that time zone stuff while making your guess.

http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/

Please Post all Guess's in Pacific time zone: UTC/GMT -8 hours.
Reason being is that is were Telltale is at.

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My Guess.

My way of thinking is that Telltale wants to get the game to our British Pirates today as promised (Sorry Aussies).

So taking into account for British Summer Time.
(British Summer Time is a strange time warping effect that happens over England. I have looked into it and have come to the conclusion it has something to do with something called a Tardis and a person known as The Doctor. I tried to look into it more but I keep getting this thing saying Tourchwood Classified. There is another theory of what British Summer Time is link to follow.)
http://www.timeanddate.com/time/united-kingdom-bst.html

I am thinking from 13:00 Standard Time would be about the latest they will release it being that for the British gamers it would be 9 at night and still respectably the 7th.

Now that was thinking the latest they would come out with it today.

The earliest would be 6 AM Standard Time. But it would be more realisitc if it was 9 AM Standard Time. Both of these times work out great for Europe and not just England with their "The Doctor" Summer time thing.

So split the difference and Boom!

My Guess is 7:30 AM Standard Time.

[Aractus]

there's only 15 mins left to release it before it's July 8 in NZ.

[Dangerzone]

the strong bad and sam and max games always popped up around 12:00 noon here, which is about 9:00AM in SF

So my guess is 9:15AM

[Traz]

there's only 15 mins left to release it before it's July 8 in NZ.

They don't count! (sorry)

Serves them right for living in the future and never once giving me the Winning Lotto Numbers.

[Wile_E]

The suspense is killing me! I just woke up early this morning, and still no monkey island!

[Threepwood4Life]

I'd say 5pm GMT in UK as thats when Sam & Max always use to appear.

[el_rezzo]

I'd say 10 mins after I go to bed :( Never should have bothered waiting to download it as soon as it gets released.

[RapScallion]

Hmmm I want to play tales of Monkey Island!!! it's 13:00 hear in Scotland so... 5am UTC, that right?

I would have thought the sensible thing to do would be to release it at 00:01 UTC today so that everywhere in the world will get a chance to download on the actual release date.

Feel sorry for NZ and Oz and probs Japan too if there's been folk up all day waitin to download this.

[Largo LaGrande]

All right all Start Guessing.

Please Post all Guess's in Standard time zone: UTC/GMT -8 hours.
Reason being is that is were Telltale is at.


That makes no sense (maybe its just the way you worded it) How can "Standard Time" be GMT-8 hours?

Standard Time IS UTC/GMT

If you're talking about Pacific Time, then that would be GMT/UTC-7 hours, or BST (British Summer Time)-8 Hours

So, your guess should be in Pacific Time, if that's the timezone telltale are in. But its 7 hours behind stadard time, not 8.

My guess is 10am Pacific/5pm Standard/6pm BST

:)

[LateGeorge360]

Is it already available to the download?

Cause I've preoredered but I can't download it now. :/

[Largo LaGrande]

Hmmm I want to play tales of Monkey Island!!! it's 13:00 hear in Scotland so... 5am UTC, that right?


No, UTC is BST-1hr, or GMT. So 1pm in Scotland = 12pm UTC

But why would telltale work on UTC if they're based on the West Coast of the US? Its currently 5:15am over there, so you were right about the time, just not the zone :)

[el_rezzo]

I would have thought the sensible thing to do would be to release it at 00:01 UTC today so that everywhere in the world will get a chance to download on the actual release date.

I assumed they would release it at 12:01AM 7 July in each timezone so as to ease the load on the servers, that way they can let it out bit by bit and any technical questions could be handled over a larger period of time. By dropping the game throughout the world at the same time the servers will take a hit and if there are any bugs they will get a huge amount of complaints all at the same time.

[Thespis]

The team has stated that they don't want to flip the switch until they are in the office just in case they have to fix things or provide tech support.

They are based in California, so it will be another few hours.

[Traz]

That makes no sense (maybe its just the way you worded it) How can "Standard Time" be GMT-8 hours?

Standard Time IS UTC/GMT

If you're talking about Pacific Time, then that would be GMT/UTC-7 hours, or BST (British Summer Time)-8 Hours

So, your guess should be in Pacific Time, if that's the timezone telltale are in. But its 7 hours behind stadard time, not 8.

My guess is 10am Pacific/5pm Standard/6pm BST

:)

My Bad it is fixed now. teehee

[Largo LaGrande]

I would have thought the sensible thing to do would be to release it at 00:01 UTC today so that everywhere in the world will get a chance to download on the actual release date.


How would that work? Example 00:01 UTC 7th July =

17:01 Western US 6th July
20:01 Eastern US 6th July
01:01 UK 7th July
10:01 Queenstown, AUS 7th July

So everyone West of Greenwich would get it on the 6th, and everyone East would get in on the 7th

Anyway who cares, I'm just eager to play it :D

[demnim]

Here is another Japanese who wants to cry :(
i will, unfortunately, have to play tomorrow.

[TestType]

The team has stated that they don't want to flip the switch until they are in the office just in case they have to fix things or provide tech support.

They are based in California, so it will be another few hours.

According to this we have at least another 3-5 hours of waiting. It's 5 am in California now.

[RapScallion]

But why would telltale work on UTC if they're based on the West Coast of the US?

Sorry Largo was a bit confused there, thought UTC was the acronym for western US time.... dunno what it would stand for though!

Hmm godd point by Thespis, I suppose wanting to be at work incase of support issues is a good reason.... what am I saying, this is MONKEY ISLAND! They should have stayed at work all night!:p

[taumel]

If we're lucky then i would say in about 3.5 hours at 9am PST. If we aren't then it could take another two or three hours, so i would expect it beeing release something in between, a little bit closer to 9am than to 12am.

[Largo LaGrande]

Sorry Largo was a bit confused there, thought UTC was the acronym for western US time.... dunno what it would stand for though!


No worries, it stands for Universally Coordinated Time, its mostly used by the Military/Airline Industry, so no matter whereabouts in the world you are, you're working to the same time. I only know cos i'm a pilot and it can get mighty confusing working out flight times (especially when I used to fly out in NZ and we file all flight plans in UTC which was 12hrs behind NZ local time!) It would be a hell of a lot more confusing though if we worked off individual time zones!

So in theory they could release it at say 00:01 UTC which is 00:01 UTC in every part of the world, but it would never be the same local time everywhere

:)

[tobar]

I am gonna venture a guess at 8:30.

[Wile_E]

400+ people now viewing this forum this morning! I hope it gets released soon. We don't want all those people going monkey crazy, from being deprived their fix! :)

[Pretender]

they could have said the 8th for release and then release it early on the 7th.. much better than not knowing what time it'll actually be released

[Largo LaGrande]

yeah, everyone would have been really impressed with getting it a day early too!

ah well not long now hopefully

[Plunder Bunny]

400+ people now viewing this forum this morning! I hope it gets released soon. We don't want all those people going monkey crazy, from being deprived their fix! :)

...too late... o_O

Argh, Its such a tease :p

[RapScallion]

Just realised I didn't actually make a guess.... I'll go for 9.30 PST (that's 4.30GMT Largo, am I right!? :p).
Hehe the forum user count is at 550-odd now... wonder if we can break the online record of 2006!?

[turntostone]

any time now...the site is beginning to report database errors here and there....a good sign :)

[Mad Mary]

Must be about 9 AM, so... any time now.

[onlyamonkey]

T minus 5 minutes- any takers?

[Sir Primalform Magnifico]

Now!


No? Well it was worth a try.

[JoyMonkey]

I'm guessing it'll be 12 noon EST (1 hour, 5 mins from now)

[PorkLord]

Well I'm going off what you guys are saying and it's sounding close... I guess...

Yay?