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Anyone have any information if it will lauch (being able to login) 3am EST/12amPST ? or 12am according to time zone.

I've been told they're doing it at 12am pst but I find that kind of silly with forcing us East Coast players to wait longer :\.

Not like you get a actual achievement for "First" anything.

The only launches that I remember that launched in Midnight per time zone, were Burning Crusade and Wrath of the Lich King. Every expansion after that they launched at midnight PST as well as the launch of Diablo 3. So, it will very likely be midnight PST.

Vanilla launch was 3am EST. With the Blizzard launch party ending at 11PST, it would be safe to assume that RoS will launch again at 12am PST / 3am EST.

I mean I just don't see a point in it. I wish there was a way to write directly to them to ask the reasoning behind making EST wait... I understand the whole everyone should launch at the same time. Just 3 am seems a bit steep for some ( Tho I wouldn't be surprise if we had the same error code like last time)

I don't know, all that I do know is that I will be waiting until the next day. Those who remember launch may be doing the same (though probably not.)

I really enjoy having Wednesdays off when blizz releases on Tuesdays. while I do think this release will be smoother than D3V was (what a sucker), it shouldn't be broken by the next day.

Except that was the launch of a brand new game. The infrastructure just wasn't ready yet. With the release of the expansion, there will probably be some slowness with people coming back for the new expansion. But there wont be more people than the servers can handle like what happened at launch.

True, and I hope it goes well... but I'm not going to stay up and bet on it. I can wait.

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I mean I just don't see a point in it. I wish there was a way to write directly to them to ask the reasoning behind making EST wait... I understand the whole everyone should launch at the same time. Just 3 am seems a bit steep for some ( Tho I wouldn't be surprise if we had the same error code like last time)

They aren't "Making EST wait". It launches at midnight their time, which happens to be 3 am our time. They never said it would launch EST at midnight. As much as we would like the world to revolve around our own time zone, sadly, it does not.

Boohoo..Us Europeans pay more than you for the expansion, but we still have to wait an extra day for every single update. Bitching about 3 hours ..pfft