oldshatterhand Posted March 12, 2012 Share Posted March 12, 2012 (edited) As the title says, why will tomorrow's maintenance last 8 hours when there is no patch? All non-patch maintenances so far only lasted 4 hours. Edited March 12, 2012 by oldshatterhand Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keta Posted March 12, 2012 Share Posted March 12, 2012 (edited) That's how long they always alot, patch or not. Edited March 12, 2012 by Keta Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WortThree Posted March 12, 2012 Share Posted March 12, 2012 As the title says, why will tomorrow's maintenance last 8 hours when there is no patch? All non-patch maintenances so far only lasted 4 hours. Maybe extra time for people to take a shower who've been glued to the computer? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kailhun Posted March 12, 2012 Share Posted March 12, 2012 Give their mothers a chance to air the room, change the sheets and tidy up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goretzu Posted March 12, 2012 Share Posted March 12, 2012 Maybe extra time for people to take a shower who've been glued to the computer? A 4 hour shower? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LizardSF Posted March 12, 2012 Share Posted March 12, 2012 As the title says, why will tomorrow's maintenance last 8 hours when there is no patch? All non-patch maintenances so far only lasted 4 hours. Because BioWare personally hates you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spoonguy Posted March 12, 2012 Share Posted March 12, 2012 Cabinet J needs a complete type 7 upgrade due to the issues caused in the artifact chamber loss of power, that and they're obviously doing a jupiter level excess feed termination on flow coupling valves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holden_Dissent Posted March 12, 2012 Share Posted March 12, 2012 You hear about Pluto? That's messed up right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProxyKalevra Posted March 12, 2012 Share Posted March 12, 2012 (edited) really tho one thing wow did very well was the ability to patch and play as well as patch and tune the server behind the scenes.... i have no idea how they managed it but its impressive... swtor like most mmo's does the tuning and server side patches during maintenance like wow used to (if they could figure out how to do what blizz does in wow i am sure they would sacrifice all their first born's to the devil) so until the game has more work done on the codes etc we will have long maintenance periods like wow used to. Edited March 12, 2012 by Sireene Inappropriate Content Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
testszag Posted March 12, 2012 Share Posted March 12, 2012 bw is running an experiment. they want to see if somebody will make one of these threads every flippin time they do maintenance. so far, you havn't let them down. good job. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holden_Dissent Posted March 12, 2012 Share Posted March 12, 2012 bw is running an experiment. they want to see if somebody will make one of these threads every flippin time they do maintenance. so far, you havn't let them down. good job. We haven't seen the EU times gripe thread. When we do, the circle will be complete. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarthRavnos Posted March 12, 2012 Share Posted March 12, 2012 (edited) really tho one thing wow did very well was the ability to patch and play as well as patch and tune the server behind the scenes.... i have no idea how they managed it but its impressive... swtor like most mmo's does the tuning and server side patches during maintenance like wow used to (if they could figure out how to do what blizz does in wow i am sure they would sacrifice all their first born's to the devil) so until the game has more work done on the codes etc we will have long maintenance periods like wow used to. Not only WoW but practically everyone except BioWare does this. Guild Wars, Everquest 2, etc. They all do a form of background patching. You would think for $300 million we could get some of these pseudo standard things implemented. I seriously couldn't remember 4 or 8 hour patches since my Everquest days. Glad I am asleep or at work when that is going on. Edited March 12, 2012 by Sireene quote of edited post Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProxyKalevra Posted March 12, 2012 Share Posted March 12, 2012 Not only WoW but practically everyone except BioWare does this. Guild Wars, Everquest 2, etc. They all do a form of background patching. You would think for $300 million we could get some of these pseudo standard things implemented. I seriously couldn't remember 4 or 8 hour patches since my Everquest days. Glad I am asleep or at work when that is going on. i notice you listed games that have had years to get to that point... and if you played vanilla wow you must have slept for 4-8 hours every tues morning because i know wow used to have patches this long.... in fact it wasn't until somewhere around WotLK that wow really did away with long maintenance periods.... maybe we can reconvene this in a year or two when bioware has had a fair chance to get their game engine under control/ tuned up? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarthRavnos Posted March 12, 2012 Share Posted March 12, 2012 (edited) i notice you listed games that have had years to get to that point... and if you played vanilla wow you must have slept for 4-8 hours every tues morning because i know wow used to have patches this long.... in fact it wasn't until somewhere around WotLK that wow really did away with long maintenance periods.... maybe we can reconvene this in a year or two when bioware has had a fair chance to get their game engine under control/ tuned up? /offtopic on I am a developer by trade. Would it be acceptable if I told my boss that I can't program something that has already been done before, by multiple organizations, unless my boss gives me R&D 1-2 year lead time? I would probably get terminated or at the very least bumped off the project. Good software development is a balance between using OOTB functionality, using or purchasing existing functionality provided by libraries developed already, or in the last possible situation custom development to meet your needs. I am just saying... BioWare doesn't need to reinvent the wheel here. /offtopic off Edited March 12, 2012 by DarthRavnos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shinybum Posted March 12, 2012 Share Posted March 12, 2012 Cabinet J needs a complete type 7 upgrade due to the issues caused in the artifact chamber loss of power, that and they're obviously doing a jupiter level excess feed termination on flow coupling valves. Won't they have to rejig the oscillation overthruster if they do that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holden_Dissent Posted March 12, 2012 Share Posted March 12, 2012 I didn't know that about WoW. The last thing I heard was they were doing long maintenance every other week but still doing server resets weekly and maybe even every other day. I still think they have a long maintenance. Don't they? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goretzu Posted March 12, 2012 Share Posted March 12, 2012 We haven't seen the EU times gripe thread. When we do, the circle will be complete. The irony is when the EU population far outnumbers the US population, server maintance will still be done in EU medium peak time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carbonated Posted March 12, 2012 Share Posted March 12, 2012 We haven't seen the EU times gripe thread. When we do, the circle will be complete. Dont forget us aussies. we are here now with maintenance at like 7pm - whenever. One night a week without my addiction oh noes! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kthx Posted March 12, 2012 Share Posted March 12, 2012 Good software development is a balance between using OOTB functionality, using or purchasing existing functionality provided by libraries developed already, or in the last possible situation custom development to meet your needs. You describe exactly what Bioware has done, but you overestimate the ability to use out-of-the-box "functionality" in a new game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goretzu Posted March 12, 2012 Share Posted March 12, 2012 You describe exactly what Bioware has done, but you overestimate the ability to use out-of-the-box "functionality" in a new game. But have you underestimated their capablitlity to use into-the-box functionality? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarthRavnos Posted March 12, 2012 Share Posted March 12, 2012 You describe exactly what Bioware has done, but you overestimate the ability to use out-of-the-box "functionality" in a new game. I'm not going to detract from the OP's topic any further on the subject. But, I will say I don't feel I overestimated anything. Especially when you start with a $300 million budget for the project. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheOnlyKyrenS Posted March 12, 2012 Share Posted March 12, 2012 They are "airing out" the servers, installing the necessary software needed to stop cheating and that crap, just to get ready for 1.2 in early April. Don't expect a patch til then since 1.1.5 was the last one until 1.2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiddex Posted March 12, 2012 Share Posted March 12, 2012 They need the server power. what started as a friday afternoon minecraft multiplayer server got out of control. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldshatterhand Posted March 12, 2012 Author Share Posted March 12, 2012 It still doesn't explain how when they patched 1.1.5 for example it was just 4 hours and now 8 hours without patch? I live in eastern europe so for me the maintenance will be from 11 am to 7 pm, basically the whole day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charliff Posted March 12, 2012 Share Posted March 12, 2012 As the title says, why will tomorrow's maintenance last 8 hours when there is no patch? All non-patch maintenances so far only lasted 4 hours. Because Bioware thinks it's needed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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