When is this going live? The sun has set in Europe, it's midday in central Canada, any clue about when it's released people? Anything official - I can't find....
An official announcement would clear this mess. We can all understand technical issues or whatever. But when building up expectation, communication is key if something goes wrong. The movie will probably be good and worth waiting but the communication strategy is not good, to say at least.
It’s hard to stick the landing with video like this — launching a video outside of YouTube, Vimeo, or other existing platform is non trivial. That being said, some communication would be nice for the faithful fans who placed their orders.
Have you looked in the bottom right of your screen? This IS Vimeo.
So what do we reckon?
1.) the guy that is supposed to be doing the release is AWOL, probably hung over in a gutter somewhere.
2.) the release software was given the wrong date for release, somebody input 2026 in error.
3.) Ryan and Connor got wasted and issued a drop database command on the server hosting the video file.
4.) Nobody at FortNine is any the wiser and they have no clue there's actually a problem.
I'm sure if there's an issue they know about it.. I mean.. if you released something like this wouldn't you be looking at the live stats to see how its doing?
"Huh... weird.. nobodys watching.. Guess i'll wait till later and check again"
You make a salient observation.
I'm guessing #2, or Vimeo misheard Ryan when they were on the phone and wrote down "Shut down F9 account 12/27 @ 9:00am..."
Looks like it is up. I just started watching. Download is going as well