Sarova Posted October 24, 2017 Share Posted October 24, 2017 Weird hours? Now they always have maintenance during their night... That are normal work hours for Americans? Learned something new here today... It doesn't matter. You have every right to complain, I just don't see what the big deal is. Anyway, G'day. I understand Biomild's point. If like me you played WoW for many years, you will have been spoiled by their ability to run maintenance at different (and therefore more player convenient), times for European and American servers (and any other places around the world where they offered servers). SWTOR is a much smaller game worldwide, so they are not going to put in the resources to offer convenient maintenance times for all of us; they are going to pander to their own first, same as with cinema & TV shows - American audiences matter first. I expect if BW was an EU company we'd be pretty happy. Hearthstone (also a Blizzard game) iirc altered their Weds reset times to benefit prime time US players which put a lot of EU and the rest of the world out but it doesn't stop me playing. Biomild - remember there is worse to come if you don't like downtime - the next update is going to be even longer so non-Americans will lose a day's sub to maintenance. I don't think I will be upset about £0.29 pence!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tsillah Posted October 24, 2017 Share Posted October 24, 2017 I understand Biomild's point. If like me you played WoW for many years, you will have been spoiled by their ability to run maintenance at different (and therefore more player convenient), times for European and American servers (and any other places around the world where they offered servers). SWTOR is a much smaller game worldwide, so they are not going to put in the resources to offer convenient maintenance times for all of us Not really. This game went live in 2011 with over 200 servers and 2 million. Even then they wouldn't do separate maintenance times so it's not about that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eshvara Posted October 24, 2017 Share Posted October 24, 2017 I understand Biomild's point. If like me you played WoW for many years, you will have been spoiled by their ability to run maintenance at different (and therefore more player convenient), times for European and American servers (and any other places around the world where they offered servers). SWTOR is a much smaller game worldwide, so they are not going to put in the resources to offer convenient maintenance times for all of us; they are going to pander to their own first, same as with cinema & TV shows - American audiences matter first. I expect if BW was an EU company we'd be pretty happy. Hearthstone (also a Blizzard game) iirc altered their Weds reset times to benefit prime time US players which put a lot of EU and the rest of the world out but it doesn't stop me playing. Biomild - remember there is worse to come if you don't like downtime - the next update is going to be even longer so non-Americans will lose a day's sub to maintenance. I don't think I will be upset about £0.29 pence!! Yeah, the way WoW was handled was indeed nice. I understand that people want to play, but for me personally at least, I feel like I just can't complain anymore, I've had this in quite a few games I played so I guess I feel like I just can't get worked up about it. And for the "it doesn't matter" part, I edited out something as I didn't want to go on and on into the conversation. So that wasn't related to his post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Costello Posted October 24, 2017 Share Posted October 24, 2017 Bioware please be careful during the maintenance today please, I suddenly got the feeling something will go terribly wrong with the hardware updates that will force you to do the server merges way ahead of time That seems like a good thing. Server mergers good. So Server mergers sooner better. If you don't want server mergers your out of luck anyway and holding out for more 2 weeks before you enjoymant is curtailed by having to avoid world quests seems unlikely to result in happiness. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eshvara Posted October 24, 2017 Share Posted October 24, 2017 That seems like a good thing. Server mergers good. So Server mergers sooner better. If you don't want server mergers your out of luck anyway and holding out for more 2 weeks before you enjoymant is curtailed by having to avoid world quests seems unlikely to result in happiness. Unplanned things hardly bear fruits! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Costello Posted October 24, 2017 Share Posted October 24, 2017 Unplanned things hardly bear fruits! Things going ahead of schedule and not delayed would be amazing if just for the novelty factor. I full expect that server mergers will be delayed, which is a fairly smart play. If you subscribed to keep your character name, if it looks to expire before the merger goes ahead you will have to subscribe again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eshvara Posted October 24, 2017 Share Posted October 24, 2017 Things going ahead of schedule and not delayed would be amazing if just for the novelty factor. I full expect that server mergers will be delayed, which is a fairly smart play. If you subscribed to keep your character name, if it looks to expire before the merger goes ahead you will have to subscribe again. While them being on time is great, I prefer delay over a game full with errors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stonehewn Posted October 24, 2017 Share Posted October 24, 2017 I demand an explanation! Also compensation...and possibly a cookie. It is now almost 1710 GMT and I can't get to my server. At this rate, I may have to actually go for a walk or something... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eshvara Posted October 24, 2017 Share Posted October 24, 2017 I demand an explanation! Also compensation...and possibly a cookie. It is now almost 1710 GMT and I can't get to my server. At this rate, I may have to actually go for a walk or something... Isn't it still 50minutes? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stonehewn Posted October 24, 2017 Share Posted October 24, 2017 Isn't it still 50minutes? It's 1715 GMT. The schedule said 1700. Of course, I'm guessing the genius in charge forgot about adjusting for Daylight Saving... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tsillah Posted October 24, 2017 Share Posted October 24, 2017 It's 1715 GMT. The schedule said 1700. Of course, I'm guessing the genius in charge forgot about adjusting for Daylight Saving... No, you forgot to do that actually. It's still not 17h00 GMT yet for another 40-something minutes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarova Posted October 24, 2017 Share Posted October 24, 2017 (edited) It's 1715 GMT. The schedule said 1700. Of course, I'm guessing the genius in charge forgot about adjusting for Daylight Saving... Edit - they should be up 6pm BST. Edited October 24, 2017 by Sarova Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eshvara Posted October 24, 2017 Share Posted October 24, 2017 No, you forgot to do that actually. It's still not 17h00 GMT yet for another 40-something minutes. Hah, I knew I was right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
golemoni Posted October 24, 2017 Share Posted October 24, 2017 lol people you that have gone crazy. We pay money to play they have to adapt to our time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tsillah Posted October 24, 2017 Share Posted October 24, 2017 Hah, I knew I was right. You were indeed. The UK is currently on BST which is GMT+1, so you need to add the +1 to adjust for summer time. Next weekend the UK and most of the western world changes back to winter time and then the UK will be on GMT again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eshvara Posted October 24, 2017 Share Posted October 24, 2017 You were indeed. The UK is currently on BST which is GMT+1, so you need to add the +1 to adjust for summer time. Next weekend the UK and most of the western world changes back to winter time and then the UK will be on GMT again. Well, this seems like an easy to understand post! Now we can all be less confused about time.:p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AbbadunkJr Posted October 24, 2017 Share Posted October 24, 2017 So? Here we're it's now 90 minutes past the time for this maintenence to be finished.. What's taking so long XD? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eshvara Posted October 24, 2017 Share Posted October 24, 2017 (edited) I wish I lived in the future!(I think) Edited October 24, 2017 by Eshvara Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old_Rellyk Posted October 24, 2017 Share Posted October 24, 2017 So? Here we're it's now 90 minutes past the time for this maintenence to be finished.. What's taking so long XD? It's actually 25 mins TO the 1700GMT that they posted Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AbbadunkJr Posted October 24, 2017 Share Posted October 24, 2017 Yea just read up a bit, live in holland, I moved here from the US, so still figuring out these time zones XD! LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DieAlteHexe Posted October 24, 2017 Share Posted October 24, 2017 Isn't it still 50minutes? Yes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
orangenee Posted October 24, 2017 Share Posted October 24, 2017 It's 1715 GMT. The schedule said 1700. Of course, I'm guessing the genius in charge forgot about adjusting for Daylight Saving... Always catches me off guard that. Never mind, back to normal on Sunday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dev Post EricMusco Posted October 24, 2017 Author Dev Post Share Posted October 24, 2017 Hey folks, We are still dealing with a last minute issue and are going to extend maintenance by one hour. I will let you know of any additional information as I have it. -eric Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Batwer Posted October 24, 2017 Share Posted October 24, 2017 Here we're it's now 1 minute past the time for this maintenence to be finished.. What's taking so long? :D:p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eshvara Posted October 24, 2017 Share Posted October 24, 2017 Hey folks, We are still dealing with a last minute issue and are going to extend maintenance by one hour. I will let you know of any additional information as I have it. -eric Thanks for the update! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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