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

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

Sorry, but this is absolutely redicilous. This is the same kind of reasoning, X killed Y, so it's right that A kills B too. I pay for this game and during the week I'm unable to play as my appartment at my university doesn't have a game grade rig standing. So yeah, I'm looking forward to playing a game in the weekends I'm paying for. TBH, if any other company would deliver a product so badly, I would cancel it.

It's always the same; it's always America first, Europe second (and Australia third, but considering you're all convicts, it's your own fault).

Oh get over yourself. For starters, Bioware is Canadian.

b-b-b-but EA is an american company!

That's it for me Im off.

CRITICAL UPDATES are applied IMMEDIATELY, way to convenient that they constantly fall on EURO peak times and US quite times....... waaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyy to convenient.

The servers are in Ireland

I have seen some stupid comments in my Life but this wins the Gold star *Golf clap.
I think your Tin foil hat is broken.

Well I just logged in after watching my favorite football (Soccer team, if your from the Americas!) team get knocked out of the FA Cup, SIGH!

Now I tried to join the server around 9.30am GMT, and of course I quickly became aware that the servers were going to be taken offline today, apparently for maintenance purposes.

I live in the UK, and if maintenance is required and urgently needed, then fine! I can be patient, and I'll fill my day with other arrangements, np!

However, I do feel a little confused!

You see I just logged in at 3.30pm GMT, and to my surprise! When the launcher opened, the client didn't download a single bloody file?

So exactly, what was the reason for the servers to be taken down during Europe's peak times? No offence Bioware! IMHO Your going about running your first MMO, completely wrong!

People would understand a lot more, if at the very least you would extend them the courtesy of explaining exactly why, this needed to be done, during these times!

Now the USA maybe a big country approx 3 billion in population, however I'm pretty sure last time I checked, if you added the population of all the countries within the European Union it was around 5 billion.

What exactly are you trying to say to your player base here?

What? You would rather have a possible 3 billion subscribers, as opposed to the combined possible 8 billion subscribers, you could have, if only you would just implemented a split zone maintenance schedule? I mean seriously! In today's economy were money is tight, this complete lack of customer consideration, is enough to cause people to unsubscribe!

Now i haven't been to the USA in about 2 years! However I'm pretty sure that, last time I was there! Saturdays and Sundays were still, largely considered to be the weekend! You know! Those two very short days you get off from work, were you can actually spend what little money you've made after you've paid all your household bills! To pursue your very own interests or hobbies, if you like!

Well like most things you pay for in your leisure time, IMO an MMO, can be classed, as a hobby or an interest, or even just a means of entertainment, like paying to watch a movie at the cinema etc, etc.

Who on earth in your company? Thinks it's a good idea! To charge people a monthly subscription, and then basically rob them of the time, using said product, for which they've actually paid for?

They say there's "Method in Madness", I say "Madness has no Method"!

Foolish! Very foolish, IMHO, and you could at least offer all European players 1 free day of gametime! Even CCP have done this in the past, with Eve Online, and they are a stubborn company.

I'm Australian and every MMO patches when I get home from work and finishes after I go to sleep. We'd been trying for years to get WoW to patch the Oceanic servers in the morning our time and it never happened. Know why? Because they were apart of the same data center as the US severs. If the EU wants separate patch times then deal with the fact that you won't be able to switch between US and EU servers.

Or you know, get a life or find something else to occupy your time with instead of ranting and raving like a spoiled child.

Thanks for playing, but try again next time.

PS

I'm sure if it was a bug affecting you that was fixed with this latest patch you wouldn't be complaining.