9am here so I will be download hopefully while all you pricks are sleeping.

It's 11pm here and just woke up a few hours ago, so i'm one of those who won't be sleeping.

Doesn't that still tend to tick off bosses because "you should have given a better estimate" or "why couldn't you do it when you said you'd be able to"?

Just as long as they make sure to package all the files in the version they make available, not like beta 4

sorry to ask but are you a redditor?

edit:  oops wrong quote, one down

Not if your flight has been delayed because of some annoying people that blocked everything (or because of some annoying retailers that broke the street date).

Depends on your boss. My boss is pretty good about realizing that while we gave our best estimate, "stuff happens". Especially when people get called in on an off day unexpectedly.

IMO the estimate was a good faith one and simply didn't work out because something went wrong. That happens frequently when plans change on the fly like they did today. In this case, people should just accept it.

Otherwise, we'll wind up with Blizzard style responses where they refuse to give time frames or indications about what is going on except in the most trivial cases.

Frogboy I live out in Brighton and can drive in to help if you need extra ppl

If you don't release the game soon we're going to get more terrible analogies.

If we was in the beta (and thus preordered), we are garenteed an early version? Just asking i have to go to work for a few hours, but it would be nice to play when i gets home. 

Another rare exception to my primary hypothesis: "There are no problems that can not be solved through competent application of excessive violence."

...or then again, I suppose the solution to this problem is to direct the violence inwards onto my lack of patience...

Yes Beta gets it first (But hopefully they realize its really late now and let preorders get it too)

I would def do that. + pizza

Man, this thread is entertaining I wish we had a forum devoted just to the people freaking out, so they could feed on each other's rage and just completely go nuclear. 

Would solve the problem of finding the best way to pass the time for the next few hours/day/2 days

I hope they never release it until we all eat each other.

Oooh did someone say pizza?  I need pizza.  Give it

Man, I just spent the last hour looking at comical "fail" pictures. Some were truly inspiring. Even if the game wasn't on the up and coming, I'd still be this bored. I really gotta find something to do.

Frogboy has been saying for a week it'd be an early release, and he said on Friday I believe that it would be this morning / mid-day. I'd consider him saying they'll do it to be sufficient for a reasonable expectation it'll happen, just like me saying to my boss I'll go in on Monday gives them a reasonable expectation I'll be in work on Monday. I'm not contractually obliged to be in work on Monday, but I reckon if I don't go in or at least let her know I won't be in she's got reasonable grounds to be upset even without having anything in writing saying this would be the case.

 Or in other words, if I tell you I'm going to do something and then I don't do it you'd be reasonably expected to feel some measure of disappointment because there's a breach of trust, not because you have an overblown sense of entitlement. Now if Frogboy had stated they were actually just going to sit on it until release day and people started demanding it be released immediately you might have an entitlement issue, but complaining that someone did not do something they said they would is just plain old human nature.

Could be worse.  Could be Valve's forums before one of their releases.  The Left4Dead 2 release was late by, what, a few hours?  Hundreds upon hundreds of whines.  I enjoyed the game, but I enjoyed the forums during its delay even more.

what if you told your boss you'd be in to work on monday, but on the way to work your car exploded with you in it and you were in the intensive burn unit at the hospital. The doctors called to tell her you would still be in to work that day, but it might be a little bit late.

Would your boss still be upset?

Guys, when you've had the game a week or two, NOBODY is going to care anymore whether they got it a few hours later than they hoped.  I understand being excited, but stuff happens and not everything goes as planned.  Why get all upset over something that is not even going to matter to you anymore after a few days have passed? 

What if you told your boss you were going to call in sick because you want to play Elemental? What then?

normally this means they found a game stopping(or at least fund destroying)  bug in Gold and need to get a complete stable set of code out to us who will be the first vocal feedback for the Game.  Even if the code set is not 0-day it needs to be a functional set.

Well, that just shows the one instance. I like to give them the benefit of the doubt and think they gave him another box with the 360 in it or something, because if they did, then that would've been a great little joke, imo. If they didn't, that's damn harsh.

Actually, this is what I thought was going to happen.

We're actually getting the whole 24th version? 

No wonder it's taking "too long".