Game Release Time?

[chucklas]

Is there a specific time when the game will be available tomorrow?  I don't want to stay up late if I don't need to    Thanks!

[KQ5Fan]

I'm sorry if there's already something about this, but I couldn't find anything anywhere.

Do you guys have a set time that you plan on releasing it on?...

[KQ5Fan]

Wow, you literally made this thread seconds before mine. >_>

[chucklas]

lol...it was seconds.

[kindofdoon]

I would like to know as well.

[KatieHal]

1 PM Pacific Standard Time! 

[kindofdoon]

1 PM Pacific Standard Time! 

Isn't possible that your servers will implode from the demand of thousands of people, at the same time, downloading a huge file?

[chucklas]

so 4pm eastern....thanks for the info.

[B'rrr]

1 PM Pacific Standard Time! 

What is that in UTC? 

[atec123]

http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/gmt-converter.htm

[KatieHal]

Isn't possible that your servers will implode from the demand of thousands of people, at the same time, downloading a huge file?

Entirely possible! But our tech guys are aware of that and have been trying to make sure it doesn't happen. Fingers-crossed!

B'rr: I have no idea. I actually don't think I even know what timezone UTC is, honestly!

[koko_99_2001]

And I've now merged the two threads

[Tolin]

The file size is - thankfully - much smaller than I expected it to be.
Under 400mb...  Still big, but not prohibitively so.

[kindofdoon]

400MB is still very large...

Let's suppose that about 1,000 people start downloading at 4PM tomorrow (release time). If we assume a file transfer speed of 500KB/s, then each individual download takes roughly 15 minutes.

With 1,000 people each downloading a file of size 400MB, the server must transfer 400GB in only 15 minutes.

15 minutes is 900 seconds. 400GB in 900 seconds is equivalent to about 500MB/s.

So if the download speed is locked at 500KB/s, the server must output 500MB/s.

But if the server changes download speed, then all these calculations will be wrong...

[Kimmie]

Ah by the time I get home from work hopefull everyone has already d/l the game and I wont have any problems ...except for the problem that I'll probably be the last one to start playing 

[KatieHal]

While I'm not familiar with all the math behind server times, etc, I do know there's a reason we asked for server space to help us mirror the downloads for the game!

[kindofdoon]

I'm just anxious...I hope it goes well.

[I_am_so_nifty]

Huh, that must just be a very good time for everyone at POS. I mean, if I remember correctly, it's when both the countdown ended and, just yesterday, the tagline winners were announced.

Anyway, thanks for not making us  on this issue.

[kindofdoon]

That's correct - 1PM PST does seem to carry some significance to the TSL team.

[waltzdancing]

It's a time when we are all available to work out any bugs we might run into and also to make sure that that the site doesn't crash. As well as answer any of your questions.