Another Downtime tonight 13 April ***

If this game update was good I tell you I'm sick and play. But the money sounds good right about now.

The sad part is, I actually do have to work Saturday and Sunday.

Just wish they would put the gmt times for the downtimes again they used to but for some reason stopped doing this recently.

Oh my god!

BW reacted so fast that they have been able to make a patch that will solve some problems in the game that! There have been too many patches!


Ugh they are trying to fix it..... yes it is in the middle on the of the day ni some country's (it is in mine CET) But I do not mind if they fix things.

Whats unacceptable? The patch they just gave us with all the new content? or the rapid speed they are moving to fix small issues in the patch now that its gone live?

I would prefer the fixes over letting the small bugs ruin the game all together, better paying for a game they try to fix than a game they dont

Code is a fickle mistress, no amount of testing can ready you for small issues that pop up on all and some servers, sure you catch some things but other things dont make an appearance till after the fact.

You can't have it both ways. The forum had many posts with "WE WANT 1.2 NOW!!!"

So they gave it to us. Now they need to fix the things that they didn't have the time to do in order to get it out.

So now the patch has been pushed back a few hours, further interrupting oceanic playtime. 2 nights in a row. Seriously Bioware, **** you. You are a *********** joke. No patch notes or anything either. Learn to communicate with your playerbase you useless morons. Absolutely disgusted.

I like this game but this recent patch, the constant unannounced downtime, etc. A *********** joke. Get your **** together Bioware, you are failing hard.

Just assume that every major (1.x) patch will be followed by at least one and possibly two or three additional patches within a few days. I don't know why, but it seems like significant bugs slip through QA and the test server in every one. Also assume all patches will be done in Oceanic prime time, because that's the time period with the lowest number of players online and their server setup does not physically support patching different regions at different times (I believe that there are localized game servers but only one global login server).

As to why they patched on a Thursday instead of a Tuesday as normal... I have no idea. They should know by now that their QA process doesn't work well enough to avoid emergency patches being required and just assume that a day or two after a major release more downtime will be needed and plan for it.

Do it at night, not at freaking 1pm.

I wish people would stop littering the boards with this trash.

A major release is put out. Issues pop up. Bioware fixes issues quickly. People go insane because the sense of entitlement kicks in due to being unable to play a game for a couple of hours.

Sheesh, Bioware even gave all the hard core players 30 days free only just now.

I seriously dislike it when they patch during anyone's primetime as does anyone else I would assume, but unfortunately it's prime time in multiple locations around the world sometime so someone has to get the short end of the patching stick. Just deal with it. Go out and see the sun for a change or read a book or something.

I wrote one angry post myself when they pulled a primetime patch to do something that benefited only free weekend players but my beef there was the sheer lack of notification combined with primetime... but what do people really think is going to happen when a big patch is put in place? Something crops up that needs fixing, and waiting won't do a thing, so they patch. And people QQ like mad.