qmidget Posted April 27, 2012 Share Posted April 27, 2012 (edited) Friday night prime time server downtime is getting beyond a joke. Please only take the server down on fri-sun to fix game breaking bugs. Minor bugs can wait till the next week. Edited April 27, 2012 by qmidget Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilkyBazaar Posted April 27, 2012 Share Posted April 27, 2012 GAWHAHWA? An new MMO has maintenance, I never would have guessed. So you lose a few hours of game time, cry me a river, build me a bridge, and get over it. But why repeatedly take it off line on a Friday night smack in the middle of prime time hours. If they are going to repeatedly shut down in prime time without rethinking their policy about bringing servers down world wide at the same time, I will be gone once the next game that has appeal comes along. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kthx Posted April 27, 2012 Share Posted April 27, 2012 (edited) this affects ppl in Europe in the middle of the Saturday if im not mistaken You are mistaken. The maintenance will occur 0900-1300 CEST on Friday. Edited April 27, 2012 by Kthx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrykerOne Posted April 27, 2012 Share Posted April 27, 2012 Rumour has is all those new Taun Taun Pets will be turned into Pandas. I hope so... I like pandas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrykerOne Posted April 27, 2012 Share Posted April 27, 2012 Agreed. There's no reason they can't have separate down times by the regions. In fact, that they DON'T do this is very amateurish and shows a misunderstanding of their product and customer base. Actually, the devs have said that regional maintenance times are physically impossible at the moment because there is only one global login server and it has to be taken down during maintenance. The game servers are localized but one single login / account server handles every player in the world. Could they switch to regional downtimes? Yes. But not without re-doing the login server and changing a bunch of code in both the game and the patcher, so it would be an expensive and time-consuming change that would end up increasing the cost of running the game since they'd have to patch 3+ times instead of once and maintain multiple login servers. My guess is that they have crunched the numbers and decided that going to regional downtimes would cost them more than losing a few EU / Asian / Australian players that are tired of maintenance during their main play hours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regurgitate Posted April 27, 2012 Share Posted April 27, 2012 They moved it to 6am a few weeks ago, do this again please BW. THANKS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iras_ Posted April 27, 2012 Share Posted April 27, 2012 Unsubscribe if they didn't fix the sound issue this time. Do you hear BioWare? I love your games but you'll lose my money if you disappoint me again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gomigakari Posted April 27, 2012 Share Posted April 27, 2012 American who believes there is nothing in the world besides himself. FYI Timezones exist and they mean that something that happens at 2am your time can be happening at 10am in another zone, but at the same time, mind**** huh Here for your information to releave the ignorance in these threads Time Zone and how they affect others besides just lil ole you You know, you're right - let's do it when it's convenient for YOU. We are being insensitive if we get what WE want and YOU don't get what YOU want. We are intolerant if we do not allow you to do what you want at the expense of what we want. The day a European company makes an MMO I play and wants to to maintenance on their schedule, I'll be the last guy trashing them. Maybe you can get some government welfare to cover your MMO play time in Europe. It wouldn't surprise me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drakkip Posted April 27, 2012 Share Posted April 27, 2012 Didn't you hear? PETA got on BWs case for only giving the hamsters one days rest and for under feeding them. So to avoid a rather large add campaign (featuring nude PETA supporting actresses), to bring attention to BW's cruelty to server hamsters, BW desided to hold an additional maintenance as required to give the hamsters a well deserved break! /giggle On a serious note I think they put patch notes in after each patch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GRINnBARRETT Posted April 27, 2012 Share Posted April 27, 2012 Guess I should have forgone the NFL draft party if I planned on playing tonight. No worries - hope they fix...something. FTR, double weekly maintenance sucks, even if bugs are being fixed. See ya Monday.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarthKatt Posted April 27, 2012 Share Posted April 27, 2012 Ok last time I checked..... 2:47am is not 3:00am. Thanks for shutting down the servers for no warning.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azurax Posted April 27, 2012 Share Posted April 27, 2012 Guess I should have forgone the NFL draft party if I planned on playing tonight. No worries - hope they fix...something. FTR, double weekly maintenance sucks, even if bugs are being fixed. See ya Monday.. Going with this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HyperThomas Posted April 27, 2012 Share Posted April 27, 2012 We are paying $15 a month for this game, yet can only play 22 days a month because of these stupid maintenance times, they go right through Oceanic prime time (most of us can only play at this time, due to other real life commitments such as work and family). They need to do something about this, bad service, from a good company, with a good game... make it 3/3. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Po_The_Ad Posted April 27, 2012 Share Posted April 27, 2012 Why punish the same group of players for every maint? I work 9 hours a day and want to come home, relax and play some swtor, but 1 or 2 days a week I can't do that because you do maintenance at the same time. Why not switch the patch to the morning hours when no one is on the damn game? Why would you shut it down at peak times? I just don't get it. If I can't play, then what the hell am I paying for? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozzyla Posted April 27, 2012 Share Posted April 27, 2012 BioFail Again on Friday night, peek playing time? You guys not to bright are you? spend so much to get peeps to sub then treat the ones that sub like crap. With so much choice of MMOs now days you would think the so called "brains" there would not keep doing this crap! Oz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Padarik Posted April 27, 2012 Share Posted April 27, 2012 I wonder if this has anything to do with some of the tranfers for oceanic players screwing up? Not really too big a deal tbh a few more hours of not playing isn't that hard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luciferhawke Posted April 27, 2012 Share Posted April 27, 2012 guess they are making the most out of giving a free month Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elmillia Posted April 27, 2012 Share Posted April 27, 2012 Whatever this patch is, it could have waited until Tuesday >.< Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darka Posted April 27, 2012 Share Posted April 27, 2012 I can say I am annoyed, but Ill get over it To The Pub! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MRSA Posted April 27, 2012 Share Posted April 27, 2012 This is getting old really fast guys. Need to get on the ball and maybe talk to that other new game (thats been on the ball since beta) and get some pointers. I really like the starwars theme but come on this is getting very old. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
implementofwar Posted April 27, 2012 Share Posted April 27, 2012 Bioware, This maintenance is getting "noticeable". Please figure out a way to patch or do maintenance within an hour like most MMORPG's. Test your changes on test machines before applying them to the live servers so that when you patch it does not take hours. It should take as fast as a file copy and a reboot (aka minutes instead of hours). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hyuplee Posted April 27, 2012 Share Posted April 27, 2012 it's Friday Prime time for us aussie server ffs I used to defend bioware, but this is getting ridiculous....can't you wait until next tuesday? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
funktion Posted April 27, 2012 Share Posted April 27, 2012 ya it seems whatever my days off are. either tues/weds, or weds/thrus or thrus/fri. that there is stupid maint and i lose a whole night of playing!!!! ***. pick a time and stick with it. you already have the worst main times in all of mmo history at least just make it 1 night a week instead of 2 or 3.. FFS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ladido Posted April 27, 2012 Share Posted April 27, 2012 I don't get it... Euopean players whining that they shut the servers down on peak hour.... Im for Europe (CEST) and they shut the server down 9 in the morning. Peak hour ins't untill another 12 hours, atleast on my server Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xanthas Posted April 27, 2012 Share Posted April 27, 2012 Two maintenance periods a week is a little silly imo. Move the server closure time ahead by two hours and this wouldn't be such a problem for people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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