To all of the people on EU servers complaining about same time maintenence:
I cannot believe that none of you complaining and making posts about how terrible Bioware is have not taken into account the effects of your magical separate downtime system.
Think about it in terms of content patches:
- A new raid will come out on x week's patch
- If the EU has their downtime at a separate, more convenient time for EU players (hypothetically 8 to 12 hours before or after US) the EU hardcore guilds will have the ability to exploit the head-start and gain all that much more time in trying to reach the precious world first that they desire.
- The same result occurs with US guilds when the EU's maintenance is set after the US downtime.
- With that system then, the game becomes unfair to a demographic of players and thus more qqing will ensue, and if you EU players really think that you will be getting your maintenance before US players so you won't have to care about the QQing I would like you to notice there are more subs in the US, meaning BW will probably seek to make that community happier because it covers more players, just like they are doing with the downtime now.
TL:DR Separate downtimes would be unfair because they would give a head-start to hardcores on the favored side of the pond.