That's the point.
Its meant to make it more strategic.
Guess they didn't factor BST into the equation or something. I'm going to bed - firstly F1 2010 turns out to be awful and now I cant even play 10 mins of Civ before bed.
19m 45s overdue
CivV on twitter has confirmed uk release is based on GMT midnight ie in about 38 minutes. I'm off to sleep, i'll justy get up =38 minutes earlier
The Worldwide version of Civilization V will unlock at 12am GMT, which is 50 minutes from now #civ5
16 minutes ago via TweetDeck
GMT/UTC is basically what all times around the world are based, however we are currently British Summer Time (BST)
Still nothing. Still unavailable... But what's this? I've had the disc in my drive all day!
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