Aussie Server Maintenance

There is only one game client for all 3 regions. You can't have 3 separate maintenance times with only 1 client.

Bioware has the option to region lock the servers and then separate maintenance times. This would mean all red zone players will not be able to play the game! Not to mention that people playing on servers that better suit their play times would be forced to go to servers in there region.

Other option is to rotate times so that everyone is affected equally. Problem with this option is the actual employees. How would you feel if your employers said well we are changing your hours every Tuesday. Very few people would bother to stay in a job like that.

I generally play at all times. Though I prefer late night early morning. I generally am playing during patch times. When patches happen during my frequent play times I just find something else to do.

Scheduled maintenance once a week will not kill anyone. If scheduled maintenance is that big a deal to people they really need to take a good hard look in a mirror.

How would you feel as an employee and your boss told you oh yeah to make our customers happy you have to change your hours every Tuesday.

You would flip out end of story.

Except that, for people who have work/school during the day, those 4-6 hours are all we have without resorting to unreasonable shifts in rescheduling our day:
I can't reasonably play for 4-6 hours in the morning and then go into work 4-6 hours late.
I can't reasonable go into work 4-6 hours early and then go home and play.
I can't reasonably play all through the night and then go to work (even with 4 hours' sleep).
I can't reasonably play while I'm at work instead of working.
I can't reasonably call in sick every Tuesday.

The "it's only 4-6 hours" argument is a fallacy when that's 90-100% of the available playing time for that day.

So don't play that day. The world gonna end if you don't play 1 day per week?

That's kinda the problem; it's not like I have a choice whether to play that day or not.

Last month I at least had an hour or 2 to unwind, do some dailies, check my mail, finish off that class quest on Taris so I could (go somewhere more fun). Nothing too serious.
Then, 7pm, cook dinner & catch up on some tv, or head out to a mate's place. no big deal.

Now, and for the next 6-8 months, we're basically excluded from playing on Tuesdays without resorting to unreasonable alternatives.
We're not being given a choice if we want to play on Tuesday evenings or not.
We've had that choice taken away from us; it's choice-theft.

And again the world will not end if you can't play every day of the week. Without region locking or forcing employees to rotate unreasonable hours nothing is going to change.

A hobby is healthy. An addiction is very very bad!

YOU would flip out!
Some of us who have to work each day to get a project completed are faced with that scenario every day, I get it all the time, not just on Tuesdays either my weekends are often used for project completion on a job site 3 hours away, and it's not difficult at all. For doing this we get paid accordingly + overtime and then given 2 days off. If one finds difficulty trying handle their current job, it's probably time to exhaust career options elsewhere.

I doubt you have to rotate 1 shift a week. Most people would flip out at having to do that. Hard enough to work night shift. let alone be jumping down to a day shift or evening shift one day a week.

I worked 16 hours a day with only 1 or 2 days off a month. I will tell you now many people won't do that either. Even with the compensation it is very hard on the body!

Again it is 1 day a week you can't play. I am positive the world will not end after that one day! It is not like they secretly changed the times for the maintenance.

Remember I play the same time as the oceanic players and I don't think it is a big deal!

SOE shut down European Galaxy servers at a different time from the US servers... (Except for when there was a patch) Not that hard for them to do it.

Just be grateful you can give them your money.