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The game will be released at 0800 hours Western Dreadlands Time.

I think they will let you log in at whatever time once you have the game installed. There is no competitive ladder or anything for people to have an advantage by logging in earlier than other people in Diablo 3, so no reason for them to arbitrarily keep people from playing. In WoW there are all sorts of achievements based on being the first person to max level on a certain class type or the first to beat the raid encounters, etc. Diablo 3 has no such competitive structure. At best you would be the first to see the story, which they have kept under lock and key this entire time.

they usually operate on their time... always

Hey Molster I got a question; When cataclysm hit the servers were packed, but mine did not crash (Some might have?), this could be because they learned from the previous 3 launch dates, which all had plenty of crashes. For that release they made the servers available for everyone at the same time, and that was the one that did not crash ( for me). SWTOR tried to "ease" people in with the whole presale deal for early play, now I'm not saying blizzard should or would ever do this, but would easing people in at different time zones help? Or because of the short timeframe they would have to adapt before another time-zone was available would that not be worth it? I say this because the last thing I want is to log in, find a boat floating through tristram, then get kicked to find servers are down.

Curses! Molster had a link to this thread in a new thread XD! I didn't read the part about him saying "let me find the link to an old thread about it"

Apparently he never linked it... I have no idea...My back button leads to that page but there is no link O_O.

Going with 12:01 PST (Blizzard Time) for NA at least. I think it would be fair to 12:01am in each region but then I guess people could argue that will be unfair as well. Maybe someone could ask on twitter/forums but they may not even know yet.

While I'm not thrilled about the idea, I believe it will be PST.

This is really affecting the decisions for my friends and I to have a LAN party on the 15th, or that Friday. We all work and are trying to figure out the best solution. If its released midnight PST, my friends and I won't get server up until 3am, really limiting opening night release

https://twitter.com/#!/GoochSwarm/status/180325264801275905

they are not sure yet

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Would be 15th of may at 00.01 o'clock. The question is on what clock... :-D
I hope it'll be regional, but I don't know. Won't be playing until afternoon of the 15th anyways, just to make sure I don't spend a day off for nothing.

I'll w8 till Friday evening. They may even have to post some quick fixes before it will be really playable.

TBH I don't care what time it is released. I'm just glad after YEARS of waiting it will be here. Such a glorious day today. Best game ever made is coming back. Thank God and Diablo.

With this new Server change for AUS/NZ ours is set to Blizzard time, which of course is actually may 16th for us

I would guess Blizzard (PST) time but if memory serves when SC2 launched the servers were available here (EST) right at midnight, it definitely wasn't 3am.

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Maybe someone could ask on twitter/forums but they may not even know yet.

http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/3484280995?page=1

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