Who will be up 4am with me? (Splatoon Demo Times)

[Crusty Ramboseus]

For me the times are okay. 11 to 12pm on Friday (yay for no school!) Then 7-8am and 3-4pm. Even though I don't like to get up early on Saturdays, being able to play at least a bit of Splatoon makes it all worth while for me!

Although, I do want to get everyone's input on this. I'm presuming that the only weapon available is the Splattershot, but I don't see why they couldn't have just given us the demo that the press got a few weeks ago. (With Octo Valley levels 1,3,4, and 5.) Why couldn't they have just gone with that?

Friday for you would be 11-12 am not pm my friend ;)

 

[LyonHart]

I definitely won't be able to play on Saturday at 7am EST (I go to bed late, but not 7am late. Need that sleep, bruh), but I will undoubtedly be able to attend Friday night's event and Saturday afternoon. Super excited!

Game is already preordered and is a day one buy for me. So as far as I'm concerned this demo won't influence a decision I made since it debuted at E3 last year, but it'll certainly be fun to try it out a bit and get a better, hands-on understanding of Splatoon and its mechanics before its release, even if only for up to 3 hours.

 

[Inari]

Here's how it's gonna go down for me (the times are off because I'm in Central Time)

Today- Download the game
Tomorrow- Get a good nap at around 4:00, set an alarm for 9:30 (the Friday Demo starts at 10 PM in my time), then go to sleep.
Saturday- Wake up early at 5:30, then play from 6 to 7, and then hopefully I'll have enough energy to stay awake until 2 PM so I can play the last one.
Sunday- Digitally Pre-order the game (screw the Gamestop pre-order crap).

Three hours of Splatoon.... Three whole hours...! I hope Nintendo does this every weekend until the game releases as @Bellebound said!

why preorder after the test instead of before? your test inkling gets gear to use during the demo if you have the game digitally preordered lol

unless you're gonna decide about getting the game after trying the demo

 

[lightdasher]

My bet is we blow up the servers trying to all log in at the same time and they have to redo the whole event again.

But hey, I could be wrong.

Well it IS meant to be a stress test, if it does then, then Nintendo know to fix that before release.

 

[SilverEra]

Let's see, US central time...

10 PM. Why that late? (can still make it)
6 AM. Why that early?
2 PM. I'm down with this.

Can't wait.

 

[Infinity343018]

Friday for you would be 11-12 am not pm my friend ;)

EST Times are:
Friday
11pm-12am

Saturday
7am-8am
3pm-4pm

The way I see it, I get to play the earliest with the most comfortable time ( :3 )

 

[Bottlecapn]

why preorder after the test instead of before? your test inkling gets gear to use during the demo if you have the game digitally preordered lol

unless you're gonna decide about getting the game after trying the demo

I didn't find that out until right after posting that! I'll preorder tomorrow then, I've decided I really want to digitally download the game after some consideration.

EST Times are:
Friday
11pm-12am

Saturday
7am-8am
3pm-4pm

The way I see it, I get to play the earliest with the most comfortable time ( :3 )

But you'll likely miss the first demo unless you plan to stay up that late! Central Time rules!

 

[Infinity343018]

I live in the Eastern Time Zone, I've been up till much later than 11 on a Friday. :p

 

[Bottlecapn]

I live in the Eastern Time Zone, I've been up till much later than 11 on a Friday. :p

Ah, but then you'll miss the early morning demo the next day! Central Time wins again!

 

[Nico Nico Sleep]

From my experience I think it's obvious this is more a test on their end rather than ours. They're putting severely limited times at different time intervals trying to stress test the Splatoon servers. How many people can it handle? For how long? etc.
I'll be hoping to play at each time period but I highly doubt I'll get the chance.

 

[Teddy]

Thank you Pacific time zone, I'll be able to play at 8PM. Chances are I'll forget though.

 

[Lyn]

I will definitely try, as I live in EST.

 

[Trieste Sp]

I'll be up, maybe to catch some people who will be streaming the game.

 

[BoTalksGames]

Yup. Going to wake up an hour before the first one starts and just stay up until the third one ends. I don't have any plans, so...

See you there!

 

[TheSpeedyMouse]

EST (My timezone) probably has the most reasonable times. Using an alarm I will play ALL three hours! :)

 

[lightdasher]

Nearly 4am guys

 

[Mataata]

I'm going to try to make every test. Thankfully they aren't at terribly bad hours for me (CST).

 

[Wil]

I'm up! It's finally stopped raining in Yorkshire!!

 

[Reila]

15 minutes left

 

[lightdasher]

Anyone else posting from their Wii U with Splatoon open in the background?