News: Isle of Armor release date confirmed to be 17th June

[DragonKing48]

Some reason I swore this came out today.

 

[HeroLinik]

So I'm not sure if this is true or not, but I heard something strange about the release date.

Spoiler:

Apparently it's releasing on the 17th, but at 00:00 JST, which means that a fair share of us will be able to play this earlier than expected, especially most of the western world.

Is this an actual thing concerning the release date? Because it sounds incredibly suspicious; game releases aren't handled like this usually.

 

[Nah]

I wouldn't be surprised if it's not true, but it is also possible that could happen

 

[bobandbill]

So I'm not sure if this is true or not, but I heard something strange about the release date.

Spoiler:

Apparently it's releasing on the 17th, but at 00:00 JST, which means that a fair share of us will be able to play this earlier than expected, especially most of the western world.

Is this an actual thing concerning the release date? Because it sounds incredibly suspicious; game releases aren't handled like this usually.

It's speculation, but I think it comes down to an inability to implement patches containing the DLC region by region; instead it'll have to be in one go. And it'd be unfair on people in Japan and similar timezones to get things a day late (and Pokemon is a Japanese company...), so chances are it may be 'early'.

 

[Sirfetch’d]

The window in which Home will be down for maintenance might be a good indication of when the DLC patch will go live. If I am doing my conversions correctly the 14:00 UTC when the Home maintenance is expected to conclude would be 11 PM in Japan on the 17th and early morning hours for the US (7 AM - 10 AM). We very well could receive the DLC a few hours earlier before Home goes under maintenance though and just not have immediate access to transferring over more Pokemon.

 

[Mewtwolover]

The window in which Home will be down for maintenance might be a good indication of when the DLC patch will go live. If I am doing my conversions correctly the 14:00 UTC when the Home maintenance is expected to conclude would be 11 PM in Japan on the 17th and early morning hours for the US (7 AM - 10 AM). We very well could receive the DLC a few hours earlier before Home goes under maintenance though and just not have immediate access to transferring over more Pokemon.

It's very good indication, I'm pretty sure that we wont receive the DLC before the Home maintenance is done because it would look bad if we don't have immediate access to transferring over more Pokemon.

Edit: You did your conversions correctly.

 

[JamesBCFC]

I'm just enjoying Wednesdays at the moment.
Pokemon expansion later today
Birthday next week
New PC the Wednesday after