Diablo III Launch Events Across the World

Posted 25 April 2012 by Rushster

 

Blizzard have announced the Launch Events they will attend on May 14th for all  regions. If you happen to live in any of those areas we suggest you attend, as always they have tons of cool giveaways, signing of the games and other activities.

We’re inviting you to join us for the launch of Diablo III! In addition to local retail shops’ midnight launches, we’re holding a number of demonically charged worldwide launch events in major cities where you can join Blizzard to celebrate the release of Diablo III and pick up your copy of the game. Each event will have its own activities, giveaways, and contests, so see the press release for further details and be sure to check the launch event site for more info on the one nearest you.

Diablo III Launch Events

Whether you’re attending a launch event, grabbing the game at a local store, or waiting patiently at home for your digital version to unlock, you’ll want to be ready to jump in right when the servers open. For the European region, the game servers will go live at 00:01 CEST on May 15. As a reminder to our Russian players, the Russian-language version of the game will be available digitally and at retail starting June 7.

Don’t forget to create your BattleTag — it’s important to do so now if you haven’t already, as it’s REQUIRED TO PLAY DIABLO III. Also note that if you’d like to receive a digital copy of Diablo III free, there are still a few days left to sign up for the World of Warcraft Annual Pass.

We hope to see you at one of our Diablo III launch events, and we look forward to seeing you in-game on May 15!

We finally have it folks, the times when you can start your adventure in Sanctuary. After some updates it looks like we now have the final times for the server launches in Europe and NA regions.

Europe region, servers go live at midnight, 00:01 CEST, May 15. (CEST is +2 GMT, so 10pm May 14th in the UK.)

Americas region, servers go live at midnight, 12:01 a.m. PDT, May 15. (includes Canada, Latin America, Australia, New Zealand, and South East Asia). (PDT is -800 GMT, so this is 10 hours after the European Servers go live. OZ and NZ are +10-12 GMT.)


Update: Bashiok got a question on Twitter if those with US digital pre-order could start to play on EU servers when they open up. But no they have to wait for the US servers to open up for their game to install, so no sneak peak play on the EU servers for US digital-copy pre-orderers.

(For US) The digital pre-order unlocks at 12:01 PDT, meaning we will not be able to jump on EU servers when they go up, correct?
Correct.
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  • “Special prizes for the first person in line”
    They shouldn’t have said that lol. I can totaly see some1 going there already with their tent :)
    I thought I could maybe get into one of those in SIngapore or Bangkok but I’ll be on Bali probably :/ Dammit never been to one of those

  •  Hym 30 mins by bus to London event and Leonard Boyarsky will be there !!!

  • Only ONE event in the US?  Very Sad.

  • Foresees the “Americas” logging on with their physical copies to the European servers and crashing them all till the “Americas” come online.

    • they won’t be able to install until after midnight california time.   I imagine they will be doing IP Geo checking so people can’t just change their clocks.   Suppose the use of proxy connections could work around all that though.  Those aren’t super simple to setup tho. 

      • According to the quote up top they only referenced digital preorders would be active at that time, physical copies on the other hand haven’t been confirmed either way I guess.

  • i luv that people are saying they’ll skip work and ****. 
     
    If the release goes super smooth and there are no connection issues, then I guess playing hooky will be fun.  If there are issues, those getting on first are most likely to run into them.   Would suck to call in sick and then be met with can’t connect all day. 
     
    Myself, I have no choice but to wait.  I’ll be out of town until later in the day on the 15th.  Going to Game Stop straight from airport.  hopefully, by then, any issues will be resolved.   I sincerely hope for a super smooth release tho for everyone’s sake. 
     

  • Australia gets no launch events and doesn’t get to play until 6pm May 15th.  :(

    • Yeah no official launch from blizz… normally our local eb game stores would do something but since it’ll unlock for us say… 5pm you’d expect to pick it up at your earliest convenience may 15th lol.

  • Meh, we still get to play as soon as the servers go live, starting at 5-6pm is better than midnight!

  • Europe region, servers go live at midnight, 00:01 CEST, May 15. (CEST is +2 GMT, so 10pm May 14th in the UK.)

    … and Ireland \o/

    Thanks Kaydee, was wracking my head about this by going here (http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/gmt-converter/) and here (http://www.timeanddate.com/library/abbreviations/timezones/eu/ist.html).

    *HUGS*

  • I’ve been obsessing over news of D3 since August.  I’m going to go to work Tues, gyming it after for an hour then rushing past SK and taking it slow from there to appreciate the story.  I am going to take my time, but no way I could see being at some sort of D3 event countdown like new years partying and when it turned to 12:01 to not trample over one another to get home to install my already downloaded D3. I don’t get the appeal  unless I was networking with others to go story mode with me and not rush to Hell/Inferno

  • Meh, 5pm here in Brisbane doesn’t worry me.
    I wouldn’t start playing the game till I got home from work on Tuesday anyway, so 5pm suits me fine.
    I don’t take days off work for games so all good for me :) .

    Plus I wouldn’t go to a midnight release either, as all I would do is go pick it up, take it home and place on my table then go to sleep and play after work the next day.

    Sucks to be the people who do take days off work here in australia though! 

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