Going to be so much unnecessary stress for everyone. Midnight release would split up the server access much better, which would be very beneficial for such a huge game.
It’s gonna be midnight somewhere!
I don’t quite understand what the stress is about. BG3 will hardly be the biggest and most downloaded game in the history of steam, no?
Of course it's always midnight somewhere. That's exactly the point.
There's 24 midnights each day around the globe. That way all those downloads would be spread out.
Currently watching a WolfheartFPS video and he said that even for early access release Steams servers couldn't handle the load. We have more people wanting to download since then, so it's only getting worse if everyone starts to download the exact same minute.
Spread it out? Not much of a problem anymore. But of course that's costing Steam money they are not willing to spend because capitalism.
