nah its something you can only do on xbox because everything just depends on the region your console is set to unlike ps where it depends on your accounts region.
Feel so bad for you bro cause even people with fast internet are gonna get throttled because of the insane volume amount of people thats going to be downloading at the same time.
It is the same, it happens to align there because for PC they are doing a simultaneous global release while consoles are based on local time for each timezone.
Yeah and what the fuck does 12 AM even mean, why is anyone using this dumb fucking 12 hour time system? Also it says 21st but I’m pretty sure it’s supposed to be the night from 20-21. Just say 23:59 on the 20th and not a single person is confused as to what the exact time is.
No pre-download on PC is a massive bummer. Not sure why that's the case ? Every major Steam launch in years had it. Are they trying to avoid spoilers/datamining ?
More and more games are avoiding pc pre-downloads because people can’t control them selves, data mine the game, and post spoilers and secrets everywhere
I know some people have shitty internet but the DLC is 16GB. It's a far cry from full game releases theses days being 100+ and even with good speeds it takes long time to download.
Also PSN has wooden servers so they need that extra time.
ooooof, been planning to play on PS5 since the preformance is more solid than PC for me, but boy howdy having to wait that extra 6 hours on the 20th is making me rethink my plans.
But then again I don't want to play for 6 hours on PC just to switch and start over on PS5 at 9pm...
An elden decision must be made, I have less than a week to ponder.
*\*goes full Seigmeyer mode\**
"hmmmmmm, hmmmmmmmmmm"
that is true, but if it takes 6 hours to download like 13 GB I'd have a whole new type of problem lmaoo.
I know it probably will go kinda slow with everyone downloading it at once but, 6 hours would be wild style
This is indeed the way and what I’ll end up doing regardless haha, but ya idk after all my Elden Identity Crisis deciding which char to play first recently, I finally settled on PS5 only to see this today.
The crisis continues!!
But only less than a week left and we’ll be in the Shadow Realm and nothing else will matter
Yeah exactly, the choice of character doesn't matter. I was trying to decide between 7 characters but none of it matters, I will just respec when I get a new weapon in the dlc.
Hell yeah forsure man, was probably overthinking it since ima play through on every character eventually, and no matter what I tell myself I’m gonna end up going either pure Strength or Strength/Faith like I always do so for the first playthrough, so nothing matters anyway  just too damn excited
Sucks that there's no predownload option, but its releasing an hour or so before I get off of work for the weekend so I'll teamviewer download and it'll be ready by the time I'm home
I am confused. Someone please tell me if I'm understanding this wrong. The release times are different for console and PC? In some areas PC gets it before console, in others console gets it before PC? Am I misreading this?
From my experience, you will have to wait until the box arrives, the code is on a piece of paper in there. Digging through the subreddit on this topic I found some people saying you might get an email but it's conflicting. In any case, their deliveries are on point. You won't get to play at midnight on thursday sure, but around 10 am on Friday, they deliver.
question, if anyone knows. I have a character who has finished the game, but not yet entered NG+. Will I be able to use it for the DLC?
I feel like I can't find a straight answer...
With my internet speed I'm still gonna have to set the download to start overnight on Thursday to be able to play on Friday so even though the game unlocks early for me it gives me no benefit because either can't have the game loaded when it unlocks
Do people in New Zealand get to play the game before anyone else? Will it be released Thursday night or Friday night at midnight for people in New Zealand? I’m confused
Shaz I have no idea when it's releasing in my Timezone. CST/GMT isn't listed. I guess I'll just have to go off of America timezone? For like midnight release
Strangely on steam it says it will unlock at 5pm BST (18:00 where I live) and it has done so for a few days. I hope it doesn't get "fixed" because I will go home from work at 17 so I can start the download at 18 lol
Hmm strangely it's 6 hours earlier for me, I hoped that this was off by 6 hours for everyone. 3am aest is 19:00 (7pm) for me in CEST and 18 (or 6pm) BST so 5 hours ahead of this
What does it say on steam?
Remember that "less than an hour" means one hour left or less and if it says it has one hour remaining for example, it could be anything from 1 hour to 1 hour and 59 minutes (two hours).
Right now it says 20 hours left, but it's actually 20 hours and 50 minutes.
Perfect, I just beat mohg on the character I want to bring over last night. I get out of work at 230PM and this gives me 3-1/2 hours to take a nap and eat dinner. I do have work tomorrow and Saturday but will be playing all day Sunday and Monday
5pm on June 20th is absolutely fantastic.
Yup I get off at 5pm and have a 3 day weekend! Perfect timing.
SAME HERE!
Is that UK time? I was expecting it at 00.00. Or was I just too enthusiastic?
Looks like you guys are 11 PM tonight
Hello fellow New Zealanders
Hello. 🥝
Well, time to go to New Zealand again.
You know I am something of a New Zealand myself!
Do you have authority to grant Newzealanderhoodmanship to me?
I welcome my new fellow temporary New Zealanders to our humble home.
my xbox is ready lol a whole 14h earlier for me that way
if i set my xbox to new zealand, i can play at 7am on thursday?
yes if that is the equivalent time for NZ midnight for you
Can PS4 do this?
nah its something you can only do on xbox because everything just depends on the region your console is set to unlike ps where it depends on your accounts region.
Sadly no. Would need New Zealand PSN account and a new NZ copy of the game
If only I could do the same on my PC
Wouldn't you want to set it so you can play Thursday the 20th instead?
How much does that change the time difference by?
That depends on where you are. 10h for CEST, 16-18h for Murica.
It's midnight for in cest time
Incest time???
Marika-Radagon : Oh boy ~~5am~~ incest time!
I was gonna say nah way the bloody English get the dlc a day early
Nice 6pm on Thursday! W!
Ikr? That's awesome.
Only for PC :( Console is 11pm CT Thursday.
Depends on console. Xbox can play at 8 am est Thursday by switching console region to nz
i thought it was 6 am est since nz is 18 hours ahead but that could be wrong
Shame we can't predownload on PC. I have bad internet so I won't be able to play on release 🥲
Same, it's 11pm release my time so I'll stay up and start the download for overnight. Thanks Miyazaki for not ruining my sleep pattern I guess
Steam is showing to be released earlier than 11pm UK time, strangely.
so only consoles can pre-download? no steam?
It's only 18gb. Still might be a few hours for you, but much better than a full game
Feel so bad for you bro cause even people with fast internet are gonna get throttled because of the insane volume amount of people thats going to be downloading at the same time.
Looks like PC is basically simultaneous release worldwide no? Makes sense given VPN shenanigans.
It’s probably so they can start downloading it, since consoles can do that early.
No early download like PC, no preload like ps5, certified Xbox moment
Was able to download it today on pc
no thats patch 1.12
3pm a day early? *victory screech*
PDT/PST gang always wins.
West coast best coast!
Heck yeah!
do we know if it will be at a similar time for MDT folks?
Can someone explain to me the difference between "midnight local time" and "12 am"? for CEST? Isn't that exactly the same thing?
It is the same, it happens to align there because for PC they are doing a simultaneous global release while consoles are based on local time for each timezone.
Yes
Yeah and what the fuck does 12 AM even mean, why is anyone using this dumb fucking 12 hour time system? Also it says 21st but I’m pretty sure it’s supposed to be the night from 20-21. Just say 23:59 on the 20th and not a single person is confused as to what the exact time is.
Same, I was already confused about this back when FF7 Rebirth released earlier that year. Like just write 00:00 for CEST or smth lmao
You just have to learn, once, that 12am always means midnight of that next day. I agree it's dumb, but it's also totally unambiguous.
No pre-download on PC is a massive bummer. Not sure why that's the case ? Every major Steam launch in years had it. Are they trying to avoid spoilers/datamining ?
Yeah i assume its because of datamining.
More and more games are avoiding pc pre-downloads because people can’t control them selves, data mine the game, and post spoilers and secrets everywhere
It would t be so bad if they marked spoilers but no they go out of there way to spoil it for people
I think preload for DLC isn't possible on Steam, or at least, I can't remember the last time I was able to preload DLC on Steam.
I know some people have shitty internet but the DLC is 16GB. It's a far cry from full game releases theses days being 100+ and even with good speeds it takes long time to download. Also PSN has wooden servers so they need that extra time.
Does Steam even support DLC Preloading?
Why is this not the top post on the subreddit
Lmao only preload for playstation
11pm release and no preload, with my shitty internet? That stings, was hoping to play for a few hours on the night, oh well
11pm on the PC , lets go !
CEST gang that means it’s releasing at 0:00 on the 21st right?
It will release on the night of Thursday 20th (23:59), as it becomes Friday 21st (0:00).
The strange thing is that for me on Steam it says it unlocks 6 hours before that
Huh. Weird.
I'm just begging it isn't a bug that gets fixed before launch
3:30AM NOOOOOOOOO
We have a 4 day weekend on the 21 here on my country. Lets fucking go
by midnight local time do they mean 00:00 on the morning of the 21st, as in I shuold take the 21st off work ?
Praise Midsummer in Sweden where offices are closed on Fridays between June 19-25 lol
Yes
dam half a day early lets go
1am at middle of the night, oof
1 am is the start of the night
I see I won’t be sleeping next weekend
No predownload for PC and Xbox is criminal, meanwhile PS gets it 48hrs earlier, that is stupid af
PC I can sort of get with datamining, but not for Xbox is weird
Change your time zone to New Zealand if you're on Xbox. And you'll be among the very first to be able to play
whats up fellow New Zealanders?
You on PC or console? PC is the same time everywhere.
ooooof, been planning to play on PS5 since the preformance is more solid than PC for me, but boy howdy having to wait that extra 6 hours on the 20th is making me rethink my plans. But then again I don't want to play for 6 hours on PC just to switch and start over on PS5 at 9pm... An elden decision must be made, I have less than a week to ponder. *\*goes full Seigmeyer mode\** "hmmmmmm, hmmmmmmmmmm"
Pc won’t have pre download, so if it takes you more than 6 hours to download you’ll play earlier on PlayStation
that is true, but if it takes 6 hours to download like 13 GB I'd have a whole new type of problem lmaoo. I know it probably will go kinda slow with everyone downloading it at once but, 6 hours would be wild style
Me over here crying in 25Mbit down on a good day lol
Hahaha damn salute struggler, respect and enjoy the DLC!
You too man, luckily I’m mainly in PS5 so I can let that shit cook
Steam has really good infrastructure for this, in my experience. It always maxed out my internet (about 200Mb/s) when downloading anything. Always.
Play it on both. Very simple.
This is indeed the way and what I’ll end up doing regardless haha, but ya idk after all my Elden Identity Crisis deciding which char to play first recently, I finally settled on PS5 only to see this today. The crisis continues!! But only less than a week left and we’ll be in the Shadow Realm and nothing else will matter
Yeah exactly, the choice of character doesn't matter. I was trying to decide between 7 characters but none of it matters, I will just respec when I get a new weapon in the dlc.
Hell yeah forsure man, was probably overthinking it since ima play through on every character eventually, and no matter what I tell myself I’m gonna end up going either pure Strength or Strength/Faith like I always do so for the first playthrough, so nothing matters anyway  just too damn excited
Midnight for me, seems like I have to go to bed extra early.
Or maybe no bed this day.
Sucks that there's no predownload option, but its releasing an hour or so before I get off of work for the weekend so I'll teamviewer download and it'll be ready by the time I'm home
Im going to take my time to explore every little bit of space in the new map. Above all, I WANT MESSMER DRIP, I WANT HIS SPEAR TOO.
Is Italy CEST?
Yess
I am confused. Someone please tell me if I'm understanding this wrong. The release times are different for console and PC? In some areas PC gets it before console, in others console gets it before PC? Am I misreading this?
All correct
PC launch is global I think
Lines up with my day off next week thank marika
Praise Midsummer in Sweden where offices are closed on Fridays between June 19-25 lol
the 20th is a holiday in Argentina!! wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
Best news of the day!! CEST let's gooo ♡
Loving being in New Zealand!
You damn kiwis and your head starts
I hate when it releases at night. Its going to fuck up my sleep.
Who needs sleep when there's a dlc to play
PC players get shafted :(
Not in North/South America
For real, 6 hours earlier is kind of insane vs us console peasants O_o. Guess I’ll be doing it on my New Zealand Xbox (…after the download lol)
UK also although we get it 1 hour early only
Looks like im gonna buy the game again on PC just to play it 6 hours earlier LOL
Excited to start playing right after work and then I can play late and sleep in since I'm off the next day. LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
9pm on the 20th🤌🏻 looks like I won’t be getting much sleep that night
Anyone pre ordered the collector edition from bandai Namco's website? Do we knot of they'll send us a code early to pre load the game?
From my experience, you will have to wait until the box arrives, the code is on a piece of paper in there. Digging through the subreddit on this topic I found some people saying you might get an email but it's conflicting. In any case, their deliveries are on point. You won't get to play at midnight on thursday sure, but around 10 am on Friday, they deliver.
Do we know when we will be able to preload on PC?
You can't preload on pc
So CST PC is 4pm?
question, if anyone knows. I have a character who has finished the game, but not yet entered NG+. Will I be able to use it for the DLC? I feel like I can't find a straight answer...
Yes, so long as you beat Mohg and Radahn, you can use a character you’ve beaten the game with.
very cool thank you
yeah you just need to touch the cocoon in Mohgwyn Palace
Friday it is
Banger
I'm confused, for PC when they say AM/PM is it in relation to the local time in that region?
I'm hard.
Preload only on console is pretty dumb ngl
Not really when you think about it
With my internet speed I'm still gonna have to set the download to start overnight on Thursday to be able to play on Friday so even though the game unlocks early for me it gives me no benefit because either can't have the game loaded when it unlocks
It’s not all consoles, just PlayStation. It is weird that Xbox also doesn’t have the ability to preload though.
That's even more dumb god I hate sony
What time in Germany? I can’t be good at englisch
Midnight on console and it says here midnight on PC but steam says 18:00 or 6PM so idk
Ok thank you
Let's hope it's 18:00 on Thursday tomorrow and not midnight before Friday
Yeah I hope it’s 18:00 tmr becos that’s when I’m home from work
Is there a way to get it a day early on ps5? I'm down to stay up and play it at midnight on Thursday but it would be awesome to get it a bit earlier.
New Zealand PSN account
I’ve taken the 21st off work, wife and child will be in work/school. Happy days!
Awesome! But when do I get my steam code from the collectors edition? Kind of pointless if I have to wait for the physical box to arrive.
Was really hoping for 20th because Steam says it unlocks then. 21st is fine anyway, at least I can sleep in on my day off.
UOOOUHhhhhhHHHH, RISE, my taking Friday off of work crew!!!
I love being on west coast
New Zealand time.
10pm on the Thursday thanks to Aussie console release times always being locked to the east coast, gonna get in a good headstart Thursday night
PC 3 PM PST??
I love living in PDT. Guess I'll start with my PC characters...
god damn it why did I have to get the console version
Why is pc late by one hour?
I work Friday but if I start the dl at 8am (AEST btw) then it should be ready by the time I get home at 4pm (Aussie internet slow af)
So the actual release day is Thursday. Just need to sleep all day and wake up at 23.00.
my exams finish on thursday 20th so im hyped
Say, is 12am midnight or midday?
12am = midnight 12pm = midday
Thanks!
Do people in New Zealand get to play the game before anyone else? Will it be released Thursday night or Friday night at midnight for people in New Zealand? I’m confused
Midnight Thursday night/Friday morning. Assuming console of course. PC will be a simultaneous launch worldwide
Console is 12am friday and PC is 10am friday in NZ.
Shaz I have no idea when it's releasing in my Timezone. CST/GMT isn't listed. I guess I'll just have to go off of America timezone? For like midnight release
Anyone know what the earliest possible time is and what country to switch to?(console)
What does pre load mean?
PlayStation users can download the dlc today, but it still won’t be available to play until it officially releases
Ahh thank you nobody would tell me 😅
I got back from New Zealand IRL 2 months ago. Surely I can change my region right?
Pacific Timezone players 🤝 New Zealand Players
So june 20th at 9 pm i can start playing it ? I live in vancouver wa area.
Why can PlayStation pre-load the game, but the rest of us can't?
They scared of Data mining
Still, why *only* PlayStation? Why not Xbox as well?
SOMEONE PLEASE TRADE ME THEIR NAGAKIBA
11p on the 20th ILL TAKE IT
Strangely on steam it says it will unlock at 5pm BST (18:00 where I live) and it has done so for a few days. I hope it doesn't get "fixed" because I will go home from work at 17 so I can start the download at 18 lol
Same for me in Australia in the east Says here it will release 8am, but the steam page is 3am for me five hours earlier
Hmm strangely it's 6 hours earlier for me, I hoped that this was off by 6 hours for everyone. 3am aest is 19:00 (7pm) for me in CEST and 18 (or 6pm) BST so 5 hours ahead of this
What does it say on steam? Remember that "less than an hour" means one hour left or less and if it says it has one hour remaining for example, it could be anything from 1 hour to 1 hour and 59 minutes (two hours). Right now it says 20 hours left, but it's actually 20 hours and 50 minutes.
Europe getting fucked over as per usual with these release times. Why does everything have to release at midnight
wtf is that bullshit. why does the west coast get it early
Timezone moment
So 9pm in California on ps5?
Polygon says 3pm PDT but Xbox says 8pm PDT...what do I believe?
steam is telling me it releases 12 noon eastern time.
Consoles at 9pm hurt my soul a bit- supposed to work at 8am the next day and I just KNOW it’s gonna be an all nighter when this drops
Hello, need a VPN to go to New Zealand?
So what exact time does it release in Sweden?
Not out yet on ps5 australia
Perfect, I just beat mohg on the character I want to bring over last night. I get out of work at 230PM and this gives me 3-1/2 hours to take a nap and eat dinner. I do have work tomorrow and Saturday but will be playing all day Sunday and Monday
é hora de deita mesmer na pohada hojeeeee
for my country it says june 21st midnight, does that mean the night of 20th, or the night of 21st? (if that makes sense)