Aussie Server Maintenance

Wrong as long as BW is running the same client with access to all 4 zones, they can't run individual maintenance windows. You can't have a newly updated client logging into a old server. For BW to provide different maintenance windows they would have to do some form of region locking or maybe a form of server revision locking.

So here's how the server revision locking would work. At 3:00AM CST both the NA East and West servers go down. No one has access to them for 4-8 hours. They come back up and only NA clients can download the new client so any europeans (in prime time) or aussies who play on North American Servers can't log in. Americans who play on European and Aussie Servers can't login either. Some time after midnight in Australia they start the 4-8 maintenance and at the end the Aussies get the new client and NA adn Aussie players can now log on to both North American and Aussie servers. Europeans can only log into European servers.

Now possible even before the Aussie Maintenance is complete, European servers come down for maintenance, the Europeans still can log on any servers. 4-8 hours later after the new client is downloaded, Europeans who play on North American servers are finally able to get back on.

So lets see the deployment team has worked at least a triple shift, Any European players who play on North American server have been down for upto 24 hour or even more. The Aussie players had upto 16 or possibly more hours without access NA servers and upto 8 or more hours off European servers. NA users wouldn't have access to Aussie servers for upto 8 or more hours and European Servers upto 16 or more hours.

So that would be a complete mess and they won't do that. That leaves region locking. IE if you live in NA, you only play on North American servers, etc. If they switched to that then they could have regional maintenance.

Maintenance times are during the day in Europe. Unless they run more than 8 hours, they are not in primetime even in Germany. The only place the this maintenance runs in prime time is Australia and the rest of the Oceanic region.

The only way to split maintenance is to region lock. If SWTOR had decided to region lock the game, no Aussies would have gotten early access. There would be no Europeans playing on North American servers. Everything would be locked to your region.

SWTOR could still do this but since they let the cat out of the bag so to speak and went World wide they would at least have to wait for the completion of their transfer tool before doing it.

All get access to the same time yeah, but you conveniently forget that this is the whole point of the argument for separate/rotated downtimes across the 3 regions. Same time globally does not work.
Secondly, upsetting any customer is bad, and saying the it's ok to upset less than half is even worse. There is a solution that means all customers get fairly treated. That's the answer.

Doesn't matter. Point is we have no downtimes during our nights. None. Is there a valid reason for this? No. No reason I have seen on this thread is a valid reason, it's just people saying that's the way it is, deal with it, can't be done, etc.
It can be done. Rotate the maintenance every month, or every 2/3 months, so all 3 regions get downtime at night in fair amounts.

I have to say as a Canadian player it is rather nice to be grouped in with the USA for once, because I have never really noticed down times except in beta and even then is was so minimal it was really nice.

There is a valid reason. Money. Right now, even though many of you are upset it's in all likelihood not feasible for BioWare to perform separate maintenance schedules. Voice your displeasure through emails and the Customer Service forum if you must because there's a thread like this every single week.

I am 100% in favor of having separate maintenance windows for the game depending on the region and I believe before the end of the year that will happen. Perhaps I will be proven wrong, but hopefully not.

Hi, that's good for you. Would you be against everyone having a share of night time maintenance?

First of all, you opened the box or downloaded the software (guessing download at $79.95) so you agreed to their terms. They would have reserved the right to bring the server down for maintenance when they wanted and there will be no guarranteed uptime in the terms. Terms which you agreed to. So tell me, how are they violating Fair Trade?

Sorry, could you explain a bit more. You say money, then don't give any details.