I'm sorry, did I ever state my post was directed entirely at you? You're one of the rare few here who can admit to not knowing anything about coding and that to me puts you above most of the rest. You're also - as far as I can see - not immediately threatening to unsubscribe. Voicing a concern isn't the issue here. It's HOW people are doing so that I take offence to. For the record, I'm also based outside of the US so this downtime is affecting me probably every bit as much as it's affecting you.

What you say is probably true. However, one only needs to look back over 75% of the posts here to see that the average player seems to want everything handed to them on a silver platter without lifting a finger themselves. I agree that downtime is an arse - I've lost most of my play time on my two days off this week - but what a lot of people are failing to realise is that it doesn't seem to matter what BW (or any other MMO company for that matter) does, they're going to get whined at no matter what. I guess from their PoV, it's better to have a bit more downtime in order to fix the thousands of support tickets all saying "Y U NO FIX MY GAYM?!"

I'd rather have a few hours of downtime (which by the way, tends to happen during the middle of my day yet you don't hear me whining about it) than a broken game. THAT is what we're paying money for - constant problem-solving and development. You guys don't like it? Then go back to playing CoD or whatever other purile wastes of time are on the console market right now. As for how long it takes... Have ANY of you whiners ever attempted to code and then troubleshoot a 3D application? There is no "Fix the problem" button. It's an incredibly long, incredibly trying and incredibly complex process that nine times out of ten boils down to a single line of code buried somewhere in the middle of the other billions of lines of code. But of course I'm sure all of these facts pale into insignificance when compared to the fact that you happen to be bored out of your tiny minds for roughly four hours or so...

Favourite line for me is simple: "A blind, deaf comatose labotomy patient could feel my anger!" - Darth Baras