This is definitely something that needs to be addressed. People working all week want to relax and enjoy playing the game in Europe too, however today we have a Saturday daytime maintenance. That is very bad for customer relations between Bioware and the EU customer base. Well I am a customer in the EU and I for one find it extremely annoying that the US customers are mostly sleeping when the patches are implemented, whereas on GMT etc. :(we really notice the long downtime. Please do something about this issue Bioware. Thanks in advance.

For people like me who had only had one companion up to this point, I had no idea why she had vanished, but having done so, the following info solved it for me from someone more knowledgeable in chat At the top of the screen is a jewel shaped icon on the same bar as point tree icon and others..... etc. The jewel is the 'crew window'. Open it and your companion is in there and there is a small clicker to the right of companion to summon her. I suppose this is how u select a companion later. I really didn't have a clue it existed and thanks to the person in chat who gave me that help. I still think that the fact she vanished just as a cut scene was playing is a little buggy though you might want to look at that plz devs I have just done the quest with companion easily and am only posting this in case someone else runs into same predicament

There are quite a few things you don't get with the standard edition. You apparently get better thought of if you buy data only and don't have solid disks in your hand; which I think is a bit much really Best think yourself lucky to have the game and a 'free crystal'

I was wondering the same as I have tried 3 times to kill him alone and died with him having about 1/6th health left. I believe he is designed to be fought by player and companion? So is it some kind of bug that I cannot summon any companions? thanks in advance

Err hang on we did it well before end of July, so what happened to our 'wave'??

Originally Posted by Kinegos This isn't a troll, and isn't exactly QQ although there is some of that involved. I just want to put it down for the record that the way this early access program has been implemented is truly one of the most poorly conceived ideas that I've ever personally encountered in over 25 years of playing video games. I've personally participated in launches of 6 other MMO games, and there is nothing in those experiences that compares to how ridiculous this process is. When you are dealing with a pre-launch even that is only for pre-order customers, after an extensive and massive beta testing period that was a huge success according to nearly all sources involved - it begs the huge question as to what is the limiting factor in the way you have chosen to roll out this game. I personally participated in the beta in a very limited way (not by choice, mind you, I just wasn't lucky enough to get a key) and was only online during the big Thanksgiving weekend test. That test was wonderful - there were a huge number of servers, and a huge population of testers. The game performance was amazing. So, EA/BW - what exactly are you afraid of? The ONLY way this should have been done is to have given ALL pre-orders (perhaps separated only by level of game purchased - i.e. CE customers get 7 days, SE get 5, e.g.) access at exactly the same time. Of course it will overload the servers and queues would ensue and all that - but that's what we all expect. Making your customers wait unknowingly with no idea how long it will be or when to expect an email is just adding insult to injury. A poor alternative would have been to send out emails with a set time and day that your access would be available. I read in the top post how you are monitoring the server performance and are rolling waves based on server performance. Are you seriously saying you have to wonder at this point if your servers can perform up to the task - when you probably still have 90% of the launch day players yet to even be able to play? That is not at all a good message to be sending at the beginning of an MMO franchise. At any rate, I love this game. I love BW. But I truly despise and am sickened by the way you chose to put your customers through so much stress for absolutely no good or justifiable reason. I truly hope you improve, because this is a very very poor way to start out. Indeed

USA favoritism much?? UK here, we had the last English speaking servers in the stress test, feeling a bit left out of the loop Paid up front for early access, put code in early yet well behind many who are now in the game, who did it after me. Whole family in same boat. Badly handled Bioware, bad show!