Perringaiden Posted March 12, 2012 Share Posted March 12, 2012 A 4 hour shower? Some of the forum members need to scrub EXTRA hard to get the smell out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmanlong Posted March 12, 2012 Share Posted March 12, 2012 Bioware, Please let players who are not having fun cancel their account. I am tired of you forcing them to pay 15 dollars a month. Also, please allow them to play other games when the server is down or even possibly do something other than gaming - like go outside. It's not fair that they have to stare at a blank computer screen for 8 hours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevlarto Posted March 12, 2012 Share Posted March 12, 2012 We don't know what they do behind the scenes, if it takes 8 hours it takes 8 hours, if it takes less cool, we complain when things are broken we complain when they try to fix things, less face it we all just complain about every thing, the dev's can never do anything right it seems, I happy to see down time, patch or not they are doing something to improve the game play.. /shrug Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ROSS- 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. WoW doesn't have weekly maintenance any more? They did as of last December when I left. Granted, once their latest patch has been out awhile, they usually get by with just server restarts. I wouldn't expect BW to be at that point yet. Edited March 12, 2012 by Sireene reply to edited post Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diopter Posted March 12, 2012 Share Posted March 12, 2012 Won't they have to rejig the oscillation overthruster if they do that? I thought that at first as well, but then remembered that they have backwards compatible superconductors to rejig on the fly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pashgan Posted March 12, 2012 Share Posted March 12, 2012 (edited) Bioware to go green and save planet by cutting electricity for 8 hours in their datacenter. Or they simply don't know how to patch servers in 30 minutes a-la TRION. Edited March 12, 2012 by Pashgan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spoonguy Posted March 12, 2012 Share Posted March 12, 2012 (edited) Won't they have to rejig the oscillation overthruster if they do that? Depends on the J3, potentially every day unless they get the new T6-FBA couplings. Edited March 12, 2012 by spoonguy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SNEAKYSIX Posted March 12, 2012 Share Posted March 12, 2012 tomorrow's maintenance is to fix the 'SLAP NOob Emote'.. Due to unforseen issues the slap emote had become disabled. The emote allows you to SLAP another player who loots items in party that he has no need for. Anyone who clicks GREED you can press SLAP NOob Hotkey. This then sends a small electrical surge down their network,, emiting a current through their mouse. Only 85 volts but enough to get the message across. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrazedScotsman Posted March 12, 2012 Share Posted March 12, 2012 I get so much entertainment from this message board. So many people who are for and against anything will argue non stop for hours. Hater: 2+2=4, everyone knows that. Why can't it work like 2+2=4? Everyone else makes it work! Fanboy: Yes, 2+2=4 but there are 5 pieces so it's just not that simple. Troll: What does 2+2=4 have to do with the price of tea in Alaska. Nothing, that's what. BioWare just sucks at making games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bida Posted March 12, 2012 Share Posted March 12, 2012 Put yourself in Biowares shoes. You have a small amount of maintenance that shouldnt take too long, but there might some unforeseen glitch, so what do you do? Tell everyone that it should take 2 hours and risk the hate spam when you go overtime, or tell them it'll take 8 hours to be safe? Sounds like they are being safe to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MasterHan Posted March 12, 2012 Share Posted March 12, 2012 BTW Bio your maintenance time record was broken by Turbine and LotRO with 11,5 hours. So um... just don't try to break that, yeah. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phinion Posted March 12, 2012 Share Posted March 12, 2012 If they said that the maintenance would only be one hour and they ran into a problem you and many others would be here complaining that BW said the servers would be up and they are not. All they are doing is giving themselves extra time to finish things with a window for solving possible problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruuprect 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. It just pooped up LOLOLO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kailhun Posted March 12, 2012 Share Posted March 12, 2012 (edited) It just a five minute adjustment. Problem is, it's just one guy per every group of servers (US, EU etc.) with a 5.25 inch floppy. Edited March 12, 2012 by kailhun Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarthRavnos Posted March 12, 2012 Share Posted March 12, 2012 Put yourself in Biowares shoes. You have a small amount of maintenance that shouldnt take too long, but there might some unforeseen glitch, so what do you do? Tell everyone that it should take 2 hours and risk the hate spam when you go overtime, or tell them it'll take 8 hours to be safe? Sounds like they are being safe to me. This process of thinking is fine if the servers come up 6 hours early. You know... when the 2 hours of actual maintenance should be complete and the 6 hour cushion is no longer necessary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gokkus Posted March 12, 2012 Share Posted March 12, 2012 The point of this thread is to guess why they announced an 8 hour maintenance!? Because BW thinks they will need about 8 houres. /thread Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viscidslime Posted March 12, 2012 Share Posted March 12, 2012 tomorrow's maintenance is to fix the 'SLAP NOob Emote'.. Due to unforseen issues the slap emote had become disabled. The emote allows you to SLAP another player who loots items in party that he has no need for. Anyone who clicks GREED you can press SLAP NOob Hotkey. This then sends a small electrical surge down their network,, emiting a current through their mouse. Only 85 volts but enough to get the message across. Its funny how these emotes are doing CRAZY things.. What I want to know is, are the corrupt devs fired yet? .srsrly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarthRavnos Posted March 12, 2012 Share Posted March 12, 2012 The point of this thread is to guess why they announced an 8 hour maintenance!? Because BW thinks they will need about 8 houres. /thread ^---- This. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolfeisberg Posted March 12, 2012 Share Posted March 12, 2012 Because it starts at 2am CST and Bioware needs till 10am CST to complete it. so 10-2 equals 8 hours, that is why it is 8 hours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shinybum Posted March 12, 2012 Share Posted March 12, 2012 Depends on the J3, potentially every day unless they get the new T6-FBA couplings. Why not just reconfigure the GNDN conduits? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdmiralBlue Posted March 12, 2012 Share Posted March 12, 2012 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. Than your memory is *********** awful, grandpa. The reality is that everything, no matter what it is, requires maintenance and the amount of time required varies based on certain variables. Tomorrow's maintenance is projected to take eight hours, suck it up and deal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiam 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? Good one, ya got me to giggle for the day, thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stindlas Posted March 12, 2012 Share Posted March 12, 2012 Everyone likes to guess why or what goes on during these maintenance times. For the sake of the thread I will give my assumption now. I believe tomorrow they are going to use the 8 hour downtime to (manually) copy all of the toons that have been accepted to test 1.2 patch over to the test server. I know people are thinking oh that shouldnt take 8 hrs but if you have to do a manual search for each player then copy from one server over to another it could take quite a bit of time depending on the number of testers/toons involved. Just my 2 credits Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarthRavnos Posted March 12, 2012 Share Posted March 12, 2012 Than your memory is *********** awful, grandpa. The reality is that everything, no matter what it is, requires maintenance and the amount of time required varies based on certain variables. Tomorrow's maintenance is projected to take eight hours, suck it up and deal. Oh really slick? What rock have you been living under? I, and many others here, could give a lengthy list of games that implemented background downloads so you can still play while patching. Let me explain slow it down for you... Download while playing . .. ... .... ..... No server down time . .. ... .... ..... More play time . .. ... .... ..... No girlfriend for you I mean that pretty much outlines everything for you. Oh, and in the future. When referring to me as your grandfather you need to use a capital 'G'. Otherwise you're just being rude. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laezerus Posted March 12, 2012 Share Posted March 12, 2012 really tho one thing wow did very well was... What about Zork? That game was never down! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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