Aussie Server Maintenance

True, I appreciate that. But at the same time I don't agree with BW leaving a job half done - giving us local servers but then shafting us with the maintenance MORE than any other MMO I've played.

You do know WoW was down more than up at launch?

Like none? Americans wouldn't be able to handle the 200ms+ pings and the 3 that tried would bring the forums down with their epic QQing like it was a Jerry Springer show.

Actually, the overwhelming opinion of the US players in these threads is that if the servers are down, go out, get laid, clean your mums basement, etc. So I'm sure they'll be practicing what they preach when their server is down, and not making a character on another regions server.

I wonder if they have re-run the queries that determine when 'off peak' is since the release of the oceanic servers?

When I look through the server lists. I will see many US servers at light, and all 3 Oceanic ones at "Very Heavy".

Perhaps if they re-checked the most convenient times, they might find something different.

' The upside is that players have no restrictions on where they can play - something many players in Oceanic regions continue to benefit from....'

Really? So no matter what servers we play on we can still benefit from prime time downtime?

So we get a choice of low ping, prime time downtime and no legacy (or start a new legacy with no information provided how this will effect transfers)

Or, high ping, all of our level50s, legacy and prime time downtime.

Thank you for providing such great benefits and still charging a undeserved subscription fee.

Which server? The Harbinger or Swiftsure?

6 days until my initial month's subscription runs out, I will not be renewing.

I sincerely hope BW loses a LOT of money in lost subs because of their crappy maintenance schedule and other issues.

They spent what 5-6 years developing this? The end result is a good game sure, but it's obvious they don't know how to run a business. I will never buy another BW / EA game and I will never recommend SWTOR to a friend (I've been badmouthing it for a while now and will continue to do so).

As for the idiots at EA - don't sell your game for $20 more in Australia, the Aussie $ is worth more than the US $ and the price difference can't be justified.

No, the services is provided per the ToS... so I'm pretty sure you're SoL as far as getting a refund for the time that you can't play.

Is that 2amPST?

If so, the US servers go down at 9:00AM GMT; the australia servers go down at 9:00AM GMT. Seems pretty clear.

Unlikely; the maintenance team is almost certainly a team that normally works at night, the same shift every day.

And really, you're making a lot of assumptions about the game infrastructure .... it's quite possible that the way it's designed requires that all live servers come down at the same time because the Data storage cluster of servers is just unavailable at that time.