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Yeah, I don't remember seeing the green 'XBOX360' bar across the top or the 'PS3' bar across the top. I guess Tesco jumped the gun.

The game uses Gamespy for...whatever it does so maybe that locks some of it. Not sure if retail copies from broken street dates are allowed to play offline atm.
Anywho, the game unlocks on Steam at 3PM EDT. Dunno exactly when the Euro copies are, just "Oct 30" afaik.

Tomorrow at 3PM I will be a happy man.

And its the secuROM activation of the retail release that is preventing ANY kind of play. Hopefully Steam only has Steam and no SecuROM.

The game uses Gamespy for...whatever it does so maybe that locks some of it. Not sure if retail copies from broken street dates are allowed to play offline atm.
Anywho, the game unlocks on Steam at 3PM EDT. Dunno exactly when the Euro copies are, just "Oct 30" afaik.

SecuROM doesnt let you install prior to the street date.

Wow, that's pretty extreme. :|

Cuts down on the pre-zero-day piracy. Which is where most of it happens.

Companies take release dates very seriously... you can lose your job and your store can lose TONS of money for breaking street date.

It makes sense as we move toward accounts versus ownership that companies will enforce release dates electronicaly.

Release date locks certainly don't help stop piracy, if you're going to crack it, you're going to crack that out of it too .. (you can download it now if you want) .... yet here I am , not having to wait till tomorrow, but till the 30th! Erm.. why?

Not condoning it, but it adds up to +1 to piracy. :?

Not turning this into a piracy discussion, more jus pissed I have to wait another 5 days for no apparent reason. :x

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Release date locks certainly don't help stop piracy, if you're going to crack it, you're going to crack that out of it too .. (you can download it now if you want) .... yet here I am , not having to wait till tomorrow, but till the 30th! Erm.. why?

Not condoning it, but it adds up to +1 to piracy. :?

Not turning this into a piracy discussion, more jus pissed I have to wait another 5 days for no apparent reason. :x

Regional release dates are indeed stupid. Not sure the reasoning behind them, other than releasing on your market's typical new release day (isn't it common for the EU for new movies and such to come out on Fridays? Here is is Tuesdays).

Regional release dates (and perhaps regional pricing) are definately things that should change in the new internet era.