4h. downtime... a SATURDAY???

where is lead community manager?

get him here, right now!

Nope, but it might mean that more people could actually *log in* to the game to play....

If people are going to 'jump from the sinking ship' (LOL at use of hyperbole there) because of 4 hours of urgent maintenance, then there is likely nothing that BW could ever do to make them happy, and they will complain about the next thing that strikes their fancy.

People like that seem to be common in this genre of entertainment. Always looking for the newest, best, fastest, and most importantly PERFECT thing.

I'm not a fanboy (such a stupid word) not by any stretch of the imagination. I actually get a lot out of reading the threads posted by mature and thoughtful players who are actually objective and state the problems they have with the game intelligently. They are out there.

This one is not one of those threads. I am entertained however.

Even if they said something. We aer still gonna have this 70isp page.. Seriously.. People are gonna QQ regardless!

It's not about us us us us. It's about that Bioware is all about U.S. U.S. U.S. U.S. Get it? So there needs to be one maintenance for everyone? Make it in turns. Once during EU night time and once during US night time. How's that? Fair enough? We'll see how you react to downtimes up till 8:30 PM on a regular day. With a 12 hour notice.

Regards,
Kalantris

Same here, its like the nerd rage fuels my Laughter.

--girllookatthatbody

Still talking about you. I'm sorry

Yet this has nothing to do with planned maintenance, So your comment is irrelevant

Read it.

Or don't - here I'll save you the trouble.

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So, if you want to complain - cancel your sub and walk away. The only person you have any right to be upset at is yourself if you either a) didn't read what you agreed to, or b) thought that you would never in any way get inconvenienced. This is pretty standard for MMO's by the way.

HOWEVER - I don't want you to cancel. I want you to keep giving Bioware money so EA doesn't push this to the F2P graveyard. Unless you just really hate the game and don't think it has any chance, just deal with the growing pains people! For as much as EU players have been inconvenienced by these downtime, I have as well. But I've also played these games since EQ launched - this will happen with any decent game. Bioware isn't the first to have bad timing with fixes, and won't be the last. Don't fool yourself into thinking that there will be a "perfect" setup with a MMO company.