Remember our earlier article about Bioshock being released on Steam for the earliest possible opportunity. Looks like that opportunity is not as soon as people thought. The countdown clock that is on Steam will end up at zero at 4:00 PM Eastern Time. So basically, you can’t play it before other will have time to run down to the store and buy it.

Gabe Newell, president of Valve, jumped into the fray to let everyone know that they have no control over release dates from third party companies, only their own. I have a feeling that enough will be made of this that the policy will change soon enough. Also, there is no telling how long it will take to validate through Steam to unlock these files. The last time a title of this magnatude hit Steam, the servers could not process validation requests fast enough, leaving some without access for days to a game they had already acquired.

via Evil Avatar