Aussie Server Maintenance

Incorrect, large companies do this to you know? I work for a globally based company that has offices all over the world, rotating schedules are just part of the job. Do you really think EA/Bioware directors are paying attention to what time every worker shows up?

I honestly don't believe you have the knowledge and insight to make a comment like that and expect anyone to believe that you somehow know how every company runs it's day to day business?

AND, when it's 6pm, that means it's getting dark here & I've been outside for 12hours, battling poisonous critters and crocs for quite a lengthy period on one of those good weeks where I get to work during the day. Obviously you actually know nothing of this place.

Look it's pretty clear there are two sides to this argument. Those who believe the scheduled downtime at 2am US time is OK, and those who think the 7pm downtime in Australia is not OK.

Those who are for this time insist that it has to be all done at once, and that the people who are complaining are making a big deal out of a small problem.

The perfect solution is to have it rotate, so that one week it is 2am for US, next it's 2am for EU, then it's 2am for Australia! That way people are only inconvenienced a little over 1 day a month.

I'm sure everybody would be fine with that.

4 -6hrs 1day a week big woop

Go take your weekly shower
Clean your mums basement
Walk the dog
Spend time with your families

4hrs away from the computer won't kill you

I wonder if you missed the point on purpose just so you could post a sarcy reply. Or maybe you really dont understand.
I thought it was bad for Europe, but poor old australasia are getting shafted big time.

I don't like it, but it's only 1 day out of 7. But that 1 day becomes 1 year if you play the game for 7 years.

I've posted about this numerous times and even raised customer support tickets which BW which have been promptly closed without a care in the world, and no hint of a resolution (or even an explanation).

I've paid $79.95 for the game and now want to cancel my subscription, but that still leaves me $79.95 out of pocket. Anyone think I might have a case for Fair Trade Australia?

Before you trolls start to trash my post, I normally play 3 days a week - Monday to Wednesday for around 2-3 hours in the evening.

So your problem with the game is the server maintenence times? Of course they're not going to cater to some player raising tickets complaining about the maintenence times, and they're not going to change it just for you.

You paid $79.95 for the game yes? And you played it yes? Sorry buddy, you definitely have no case what so ever with Fair Trading. Get off your high horse and self-entitlement.

i did a little searching over why BW would decide to do maint the way they do and found this

As more and more companies are acquiring other companies with different and disparate databases there are complexities that come from merger and integration of the IT applications. Even in the organic growth, when a company grows across geographies, it is seen that multiple SAP systems may need to be merged.

In such situations, one major question that every CIO grapples with is should one have One Single SAP Global Instance or Separate Regional Instances.

TO properly evaluate, there are many things that need to think through. The pros and cons of the two different alternatives are a good startiing point for that evaluation and discussion.

Single Global Instance(maint)

Advantages

Maximum utilisation of SAP Functional Integration
Forces standardisation or commonality
Lower cost of on-going maintenance
Organisation-wide operational reporting is standard

Disadvantages

Various technical constraints that have to be managed
The online Transactional volume is heavy 24 hrs a day
Response time considerations across global WAN
Inability to accurately estimate client/server workload
More Business Unit impact when system unavailable

Separate Regional Instances (maint)

Advantages

Provides the greatest configuration flexibility between regions
Allows diversity
Reduces the issues with Technical Constraints

Disadvantages

Multiple separate data bases
SAP Functional Integration is limited
Organisation-wide operational reporting is non-standard
Cost of on-going maintenance is Higher
Commonality is manually maintained and is not forced by the software

Aussie based player.
No problem with maintance times. Keep as is pls. So I miss one day a week. Big wop!

And I see ppl complaining about maintance being 1 hr early this week.(lol step outside ur bubble)
So FYI Australia players our daylight savings ends soon so there be another time chg for some come maintance time google it now don't be left behind.

I like it. Gives me some free time to spend with the wife.