Has anyone seen any comment on this with regards to GOG?
Almost certainly the same, 10 A.M. pacific because otherwise it would divert from Steam.
Honest question, why do you think that? I mean, of course it would divert from Steam then, but Swen quite clearly said, they'd have preferred an earlier release time, but Steam wouldn't let them due to wanting manpower at time of release.
GoG has their people in Poland, so they can have their manpower for release ready at [earlier time]™.
That's why I think there's at least an however small possibility.
Or does Steam contractually force publishers to nowhere release earlier than on Steam?
I imagine that's on a case by case basis whether or not there's a contract involved and we just don't know but-
Punishing customers for getting it on one platform vs another isn't a good look.
The ONLY thing we know is that when asked Swen definitely said the release time was 10:00 A.M. Pacific time, he didn't say only for Steam, just generally. I'd like to think that if there WAS a difference between the GOG and Steam release times, he would have said so when asked about it.
Ok, so you don't know, but have a strong guess.
I can still hope you're wrong
Don't take it personally, I just want you to be wrong here and maybe buy the game a second time from GoG as well. We'll soon know.
Since I count the current day and release day in full, I say we'll know in 9 days.
Why I think they MIGHT release earlier on GoG is about the GoG technical support maybe not being at full strength when it's 10am PT anymore. I have no clue if the timezone swaps between Germany and Poland, but it's either 7pm or 8pm for them then.
So if they have the same reasoning as Steam does, they might want to have the game released a few hours earlier.
But as I said, time will tell.
Edit: Also I'm... a strong 50% sure Swen mentioned Steam specifically.
