mufutiz Posted December 14, 2011 Share Posted December 14, 2011 Because companies like EA don't care. They know you are going to give them your money anyway, so why bother to put in extra effort. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoDahl Posted December 14, 2011 Share Posted December 14, 2011 I absolutely agree. With a world wide roll-out of an application, you need local or at least regional support/maintenance organizations. It's a little worrying that BW/EA hasn't given this more attention, EU is a huge market. Hang in there / R Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mooglyn Posted December 14, 2011 Share Posted December 14, 2011 Totally agree with the Fat slug.... i mean OP Slug. Posting Times such as 8am CST (only)....that dosent mean crap to me. Only time i care about is "CET", so ya im swedish (GMT+1) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigoldbear Posted December 14, 2011 Share Posted December 14, 2011 This has been the first valid thread making a complaint (of sorts) that I have read. It is 8.38 in England right now and I find myself available to log on, or at least be considered for it if my number came up. I have worked nights and I know BioWare has a few bucks in the bank, so a night shift crew in the States (presuming there isn't a viable European hub) would not be impossible to imagine. However, I think the real reason is that BioWare do not want to get ahead of themselves. they know the numbers they want to unload onto the servers each day (and we are still part of a stress test, which I am perfectly happy with) and this is an easy way to apply the brakes. Whatever the reason, I can live with it, mainly because there isn't an alternative. I always used to think I was an impatient sort, but it turns out I'm Buddhist Mink material compared to what I've seen on multiple wailing threads here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anakronist Posted December 14, 2011 Share Posted December 14, 2011 They should of sent the whole EU batch of preorders to an office in Europe to deal with the waves here, and kept the ones for US in the US. Because of the time difference it only makes sense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fireci Posted December 14, 2011 Share Posted December 14, 2011 (edited) I support this thread. Hopefully major maintenance won't be something like 08.00 EST to 13:00 EST which then for EU starts at 13.00 GMT then ends at 19.00 GMT. Worse for +1 and so on the further east you go. Edited December 14, 2011 by Fireci Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
revial Posted December 14, 2011 Share Posted December 14, 2011 You'd think that EU being a significantly larger market then US might make a difference. Do you really believe this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KakitaHoshi Posted December 14, 2011 Author Share Posted December 14, 2011 Totally agree with the Fat slug.... i mean OP Slug. Posting Times such as 8am CST (only)....that dosent mean crap to me. Only time i care about is "CET", so ya im swedish (GMT+1) It's cool, I am a fat Slug, my wife tells me so Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Siorac Posted December 14, 2011 Share Posted December 14, 2011 Finally, a reasonable thread. OP makes a good point, it seems rather strange that we have to wait until 3 pm for the next wave. Perhaps it would have been better to handle US and EU invites separately - though that would have led to massive QQing over Europeans getting in earlier than Americans simply because there have been less pre-orders from the old continent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erelenko Posted December 14, 2011 Share Posted December 14, 2011 Agree with op, we deserve some love here in europe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mooglyn Posted December 14, 2011 Share Posted December 14, 2011 It's cool, I am a fat Slug, my wife tells me so lol J/k ofc. All HAIL the Blue Slug ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidpop Posted December 14, 2011 Share Posted December 14, 2011 Do you really believe this? Our money is worth more, we demand special treatment Srsly tho, it would nice if EU servers was being run on a EU schedule. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KakitaHoshi Posted December 14, 2011 Author Share Posted December 14, 2011 (edited) Finally, a reasonable thread. . thank you OP makes a good point, it seems rather strange that we have to wait until 3 pm for the next wave. Perhaps it would have been better to handle US and EU invites separately - though that would have led to massive QQing over Europeans getting in earlier than Americans simply because there have been less pre-orders from the old continent. That's why i said: "now that launch is here " I completly understand why the first wave had to be on the same time. Yet it is day two now. I will not complain if some US citizen gets in while I sleep! And although gamers are a fickle bunch, i doubt most would mind that another part of the world gets service during their office times.... Edited December 14, 2011 by KakitaHoshi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tokosteef Posted December 14, 2011 Share Posted December 14, 2011 I agree. But they really dont care. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aardevark Posted December 14, 2011 Share Posted December 14, 2011 EU is the 53rd State didnt you know Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qui-Zan Posted December 14, 2011 Share Posted December 14, 2011 (edited) Denmark here...and we support OP 100%.....it's 9:48 here...and all is quiet at Bioware !!! but then again...im a September pree-order guy, so i have to waite till the weekend anywhooo !! Edited December 14, 2011 by Qui-Zan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sprasz Posted December 14, 2011 Share Posted December 14, 2011 Nobody is saying europeans don't get their waves, but that the waves are based around US work hours. Big difference. This. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kriiz Posted December 14, 2011 Share Posted December 14, 2011 Do you really believe this? EU Population 731,000,000 US Population 312,771,000 Yes we do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nighenhale Posted December 14, 2011 Share Posted December 14, 2011 Do you really believe this? I have no idea which market is bigger. I do know two things though: Europeans favor the PC over consoles, americans favor consoles over the PC and RPG's are in general a bigger thing in Europe than in the US. However the numbers get confusing because Europe has more languages. So I do not know if they sell more in the entire European region than in the US, but it would not surprise me. The numbers usually count per country instead of VS vs EU which makes it look like the american market is much larger. Again, only guess work on my part. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tausret Posted December 14, 2011 Share Posted December 14, 2011 They should of sent the whole EU batch of preorders to an office in Europe to deal with the waves here, and kept the ones for US in the US. Because of the time difference it only makes sense. Agree! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jedspeedy Posted December 14, 2011 Share Posted December 14, 2011 Agree with op Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simondel Posted December 14, 2011 Share Posted December 14, 2011 I fully agree. A bit of respect to EU players. We pay as much as US players. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skyrider_dk Posted December 14, 2011 Share Posted December 14, 2011 Nobody is saying europeans don't get their waves, but that the waves are based around US work hours. Big difference. Ohh sorry then i read this from first post wrong OR ? However, what i do not understand is that why, now that launch is here, Bioware Europe is held back by US office times. The European Servers are almost empty. Who is on there, has moved on from the starting areas. Bioware Europe staff is clocking in as I write. Why isn't Bioware Europe getting it's next share of invites? Why are they held back? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derbage Posted December 14, 2011 Share Posted December 14, 2011 Next thing you know us EU players have maintenances mid-day/late nights! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wisz_Rethon Posted December 14, 2011 Share Posted December 14, 2011 I support thi thread. And would like to see some gold text some way down the road. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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