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• slazer2au@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Because the smart decision is to release digital content at GMT so everyone gets access at once.

  Otherwise you will have more people pirating or lying about their location to gain access to a game that has zero reason to be region locked.

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• dhork@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s not that Australia is “in the future”, it’s that local time is oriented toward when the sun is up. I am posting this at 1150 Saturday US Eastern Time, which happens to be 1550 Saturday UTC and 0050 on Sunday Sydney time, but it’s all the same actual time.

  Publishers have a choice to make: either release at the same time worldwide in UTC and have to pick which markets get it in the middle of the night, or release in stages worldwide and put up with the fact that one it gets released on one market, enterprising people will figure out a way to play it from anywhere. If it’s an online game, and they are already planning worldwide access, they probably are planning their server rollout regionally, and can turn on the game in each region at a different UTC time of they want to.

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• otp@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This is the first time I’ve heard “timezones aren’t fair”!

  If those extra 15 hours matter, you could always move to New Zealand. Otherwise, it’s “safest” to play by the rules and wait until midnight. Or just wait until the next day. Playing exciting games after midnight can be bad for your health (assuming you’re not on a nocturnal schedule)!

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• hedders@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Because time offsets are calculated +/- from GMT. Because colonialism. No, that doesn't make much sense in the modern world, but I suppose "hour zero" has to sit somewhere, and the world has settled on an eastern suburb of London as being that somewhere.

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• kmartburrito@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I guess I never thought about it that way. Worldwide releases are usually GMT, so you just get it when you get it. I’d feel selfish wanting to have it oriented around the US, even though that may be the largest consumer base. (Note OP I’m not directing that last comment towards your question, just my thoughts)

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