Aussie Server Maintenance

Actually its not even that hard adding a tab to select regions is fairly easy and there really wont be all that many playing an alt on a downtime server. There already are other mmos out there that alow access on every region with seperate downtime frames. That really isnt the biggest problem.

And yes you are right, most people who are complaining about it care about it because it effects them, they probebly dont care if it effects others. Then again the vast majority of people who are fine with it and/or tell people to learn to live and deal with it are the ones that are NOT effect by it, dont care that it cuts into someone elses time but DO care that it may start to cut into their time.

Right now down time has little to no effect on me, it hardly ever cuts into my play time and when it does, like you I have better things to do then getting all worked up about it.
I have plenty in my life. friends, movies other games, heck even the metaphoric mango tree is an option! But I do see the way its being done right now isnt really fair, I have no problem sacrificing some of MY time in attembt to make down time more fair for all of us.

Scheduled maintenance can never affect me as I plan my playing times around it...

Though my preferred time is around now.

Like I said I am fine with any system they implement...

They don't have to do that, but they have decided that's what they're going to do.
meanwhile I have 35 mins to play tonight (typing while in loading screen, plenty of time) and when our DST starts in April the servers will already be shut down by the time I get home from work. Repeat until October. -.-'

Pointless to argue that it's an all american game, so we have to put up with it. That's as silly as saying if it weren't for the British crew, sets, and actors, a new hope wouldn't have been made, and in turn, swtor would never exist!

Right its really not a hard concept to grasp.... But I will play along so they patch the U.S. servers on Tuesday night and they also patch the oceanic servers on Tuesday at midnight. Well on Tuesday morning when you log into the game in Australia and decide to log into an U.S. server which hasn't been updated yet as it is Monday still.... then what?

Beside the nightmare of keeping the software jiving correctly there is the issue with the people who want to play and there is a maintenance going on. So lets say on Tuesday night in the U.S. while the servers are down everyone wanting to play goes "Hey look the oceanic servers are open!" and they all start flooding into your total of 3 servers and crash them all... then what?

With that said they have to pick a universal time for the maintenance... well not to be crude but the U.S. has more players than the other 2 server groups and you wouldn't even be playing this game without Bioware, EA and Lucas arts which just all happen to be U.S. companies. So are you really that shocked?

When Australia cranks out a MMO that I want to play and makes the maintenance times during my prime time guess what I'll either deal with it or quit....

lol I love how you ignore the 2 major reasons for a universal time and pick out the 3rd one just thrown in for good measure....

Not to be crude, or a septic tank (that's slang for yank because they are full of $&@#) but it wouldn't matter if only 1 Australian player was playing. We all PAY the same subscription fee so we all expect the same game access and quality experience. Not server downtime in our busiest play times. It is an issue that needs to be addressed and I don't really care how it is done, you can theorize you brains out, I simply pay a fee and expect the same access as any other paying customer.

And maybe you threw the 3rd one in for the sole purpose of antagonising people.

We get the universal maintenance time, just rotate the time slot so that every region has maintenance during prime time at some point or the other. THAT would be fair.