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Oh, and to add to things: Do you actually think they want to be in the office releasing the game much past 6-7pm local time? You can be kitten sure that if they’re staying late they’re doing it for you ungrateful jerks.
Also: If you think they should use GMT, consider that the alarm clocks they get up to, the time they have dinner with their families, when they have lunch, these are all on pacific time.
It’s just easier for them to use the times they’re familiar with to keep everything consistent.
I’ve been on the server side of an update like this on a few other games. What you guys need to realize is how huge their server software/client software push must be, and one single parameter or config file out of place can make it all break.
So, what professional companies do is regression test to ensure that the live server matches the staging server. This takes a while, and if they find any inconsistencies (which do happen. Even if it’s 99.999% correct there’s still an error) they need to find and fix it.
So relax. Everything is going according to plan. Even if it screws up: it’s still planned for.
Assuming you have a motherboard that supports the latest PCIE spec (which, as you have a Core i5, I assume you do), the new Geforce 660 GTX can be got for around $200 and although is not blazing fast has the latest architecture and is gonna be faster than the 560. It’s what I put in my new computer I built and we have the game maxed out basically.