I don’t think we have an exact time yet. My guess would be that they use the same time as with eod or on the regular patch time.
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meldrik@lemmy.wtf 1 year ago
Does anyone know how the time of the release of SotO will work? Sure, it says the release date is August 22, 2023, but because of time zones it won’t be August 22 at the same time on the planet.
My guess is they will follow the time zone of ArenaNet’s headquarters in Bellevue, Washington, which is about 9 hours behind Europe. So when the game releases at 22 of August in Bellevue, the clock would be around 9 CET in the morning in Europe?
Ravi@feddit.de 1 year ago
Ravi@feddit.de 1 year ago
There is info on the wiki about the release
Guild Wars 2: Secrets of the Obscure is the fourth expansion pack for Guild Wars 2. It was announced on March 22, 2022,[1] and the title, features and trailer were revealed on June 27, 2023.[2] The release date will be on Tuesday, August 22, 2023 at 18:00 UTC+02:00.
meldrik@lemmy.wtf 1 year ago
Guess the kids will be going early to bed that day 😆 18:00 UTC+02:00 is just before prime time on the EU servers. The Americans will have to take a day off to play with the rest of us.
necropola@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
Here’s some data from previous expansions. Combined with the experience that patches generally hit the live servers in the (UTC) evening hours my guess is between
19:00 UTCand20:00 UTC.Ravi@feddit.de 1 year ago
Thanks for gathering the info. Morning seems likely, since it is the where they have the biggest manpower to monitor the start and come up with fixes for critical problems.
lorkano@lemmy.world 1 year ago
it’s also prime time on EU, gw2 has a lot of EU players so it makes a lot of sense