Upcoming Patch Tomorrow, February 9th, 2012

I can't believe its another Ilum fix... When I hit 50 that place better be awesome as much trouble as its seemed to cause in game.

Sorry but Ilum pvp has been broken since launch and this patch is not going to fix that, its just going to fix 1 part of the broken. Again not a priority.

What is broken? Besides the valor and credit caused by this last patch?

The word broken gets thrown around way too much now a days.

LogicalPremise

I applaud your post, you are a very smart fellow. I understand that because I am in Australia my laws are very different to that of the U.S.

We have the ACCC - this stands for Australian Competition & Consumer Commision
this umbrella if you will protects customers (consumers) from various things.
1 could say that if a company did not uphold to their agreement (written or verbal), 1 could get compensation. obviously I am being extremely general and I am not giving details for obvious reasons (I have no examples).

What I am saying is I agree and disagree with their methods of delivering the patching structure and I understand they will probably never ever ever ever read this post.

I feel better knowing more people feel the same (even though I had a fair idea most would), I just wanted some insight into the people that this bug was affecting and how they could justify bringing down the server, time and time again. especially when they are complaining about the downtime also. catch 22.

I must admit, I feel better about writing as I am a fairly anti-social person and to put my thoughts out there for others to listen to helps me feel loved.

Thank You all.

P.S. if you don't like my posts, I still love you for reading them.

OK, i rolled repub. my toons name is weirdbeard, i'm on tython. BTW also, they've only gone over the time they've said it would take once and all the other downtimes have come under the estimated time, if that helps.

Alot of people who are 50 play for PVP, and getting those kill credits for weekly/daily are some of what they PAY each month to do same as you, And it was ruined by Biowares patch, So Bioware is fixing a mistake they made.

Servers are going down for up to 4 hours, Get used to it. SWTOR is not the first mmo to put in hotfixes outside regular scheduled patch days

Still at work for 1hr, I will be on then. You are correct, they have a template that states 4hrs and they don't change it. this ensures if they finish early, people are happier than if they stated 1hr and took 4hrs.

kk, logging out, logging back in an hour.

Couple of points:

First, I agree. Bioware has decided, for whatever reasons, that the patching methods they are using is what is best. I'm not sure why they made this choice, and their current decisions fly directly in the face of the blog post they made a few days ago about how they prioritize patches, so I doubt they are going to be further ... ah, forthcoming about their reasoning.

The ACCC I am familiar with , as my cousin was a junior VP with the retailer Woolworth's some time back when they tangled with them. The primary problem I have is that they are far too dependent on litigation and restriction of access to markets. They have good records when it comes to dealing with anti-trust issues or illegal pricing deals, but a more ... ahem, should I say , timid record when it comes to dealing with software issues.

Their only real recourse is to argue from Parts four and five of the TPA, about unconscionability and consumer practices. The former can be applied to binding arbitration if and only if said arbitration has already transpired and legal findings indicate the neutral arbitrator is not acting in a neutral manner.

Long story short, until and unless someone threatens legal action over this debacle or can illustrate how Bioware isn't making any actions to address the issue, I'm not sure the ACCC or the European trade commissions CAN do anything.

Pity, really.

They analysed this bug. Now they can fix it. They fix it.
Thats what BW is ought to do.

The OP cleary does not understand how this works.
So what if they would do it on maintenance day?
Then the Maintenance would last 8 hours instead of 4.

There is just no reason to complain.

This is an MMO and it just launched.

If you only want one patch per week, go play an MMO that has been out for several years.