If you revolve your life around a game launch then you have no life. I can see if you are going on a vacation or you need surgery or hell even to do your laundry. These are real life events, they did say "UP TO 5 DAYS EARLY" so there was no promise you were going to start on the 15th anyways. So to take a vacation from work to possibly play on that day was a stupid choice. PEOPLE NEED TO READ, or at least learn what the words mean that you are reading.