10pm downtime? Really?

First of all, he's from New Jersey, that's not in America, it's a separate entity!

Actually, going from his twitter the *DIRECT* quote that I believe you are referring to was

"As a general rule of thumb we often give at least three days' notice. Generally..."

so, i believe that you misread into it a bit too deeply (granted on twitter with 140 character limit, i am not expecting novels)

Man, people see what they want to see and hear what they want to hear. Nothing on Earth is going to change that.

I have to say, this thread has been entertaining on a morbidly curious level. All the QQing made the Forum soggy... and I do believe it was only the OP and maybe one or two others that were doing the QQing.

Nope. When the people in Europe couldn't play I said Bioware should split up the maintenance times.

You know what? They still should. I'm willing to bet the number of people inconvenienced by downtimes when they'd like to play is far greater than the number of people who play on different servers in significantly different regions and would be inconvenienced by out-of-sync clients for ~8 hours or so every so often.

Yes, I'm resigned to losing 2 extra hours of playtime. I'll probably play Witcher 2 or something. Not really that big a deal to me.

'Course, I also tend to be a solitary player, so it's not like I have regularly scheduled guild events or anything.

Yeah totally. It is what it is. Thursday is the patch day, and that is what we agreed to let them have the freedom to decide. I don't see where the QQing is coming from really. We all clicked on 'Agree' before we even created our accounts.

HMMMM wonder if OP is married or planning to be... just hope the **lucky bride isn't fashionably late for the big day... can just hear the argument now...

This is not the what was contractually agreed...luv
You said Saturday at 11am... It's now 11:10am... you lied!!!

But, but.... its ...

NO buts... you realise that by being 10minutes late I dont get to MY reception on time, I probably wont get to log into SWTOR until 12:10am now.... that means primetime for me is 10mins less ... You just dont realise the effect this will have on my relationship with you, my Guild, the Forums...

But, but.....

NO! You just never considered my feelings did you... ITS OVER!!

But, But.... Oh thank my lucky stars... you sad excuse for a West Coaster
And btw... I've been having an affair with ya best man, and guild officer .. deal with it!!

There's a difference between a patch day and maintenance time. Is this your first MMO?

If you can't go a single day without playing because they're ADDING CONTENT, you need to really, really, really get a hold of yourself and pull your head out. Go outside. Go to work. Go watch a movie. Go read a book. Go try and get a girlfriend. If you fail at all of those, then just get out of my game and never come back. In fact, never play any MMOs ever again because you're nothing but an albatross around everyone's neck.

What if you was on the East Coast and wanted to play a hour or so before going to work? With the time set for it as is...those of you on the West Coast can. East Coast players tho servers donot come back up until 9am..:P Allways going to be someone who will not like the times. Deal with it and move on. Life is never consistently convenient.

Don't know why the hell the op is moaning. Try living in Europe and see how maintenance / patching gets in the way.

10pm - 6am or 6am - 2pm?

I think you've got it better buddy

Unfortunately we can't lie to ourselves. It is part of our country. We just try to keep it covered like a skin disease even when we go to the beach.