Another Downtime tonight 13 April ***

Unless they stagger patches for each time zone,
A task in itself,
Even then,
Someone, somewhere is going to be hit during their
own personal 'fun time'.

If you want to make them listen, cancel for a month or more, en masse.

I can't help but wonder if by simplifying maintenance schedules for their teams they opened a can of worms customer service wise.

Blizzards method of keeping USA, European and Asia-pacific servers separate with their own times for maintenance kept many a player happy.
However many people I know would have loved to be able to play with friends in the states without first paying blizzard for another account >.>;

Most of all, I was able to raid last night..... smoothly, without errors or disconnects on a MAJOR patch day... this a HUGE success, one that blizzard never pulled off at any point during vanilla.

However, for those who are "relatively" new to MMO's downtime like this is super common.
There were days when we would have days of playtime refunded because on patch day we couldn't get into molten core due to the servers crashing every 5 minutes.

This is pretty smooth sailing, and having obtained an extra 30 days for free i'm in no position to complain even if this does eat into my time. I will simply head over to the SC2 ladders during this downtime.

Be happy! be positive.... Bioware are FIXING the game for us.

Dont complain, the downtime is to fix issues with the latest patch.

Id rather play without bugs than with them.

The only thing i am complaining about is that its during the day, which is my spare time....nothing else.

I agree but its not hard to change, they just implemented it completely wrong, if they did it the way you are saying which is very hard to change (as in integrated into EVERYTHING) then when cross server Groups / WZ's etc come in then it should be all across all of them (including all america, all EU etc, but I very much doubt they did this) so it SHOULD be an easy fix, its just like the bug / performance issues in this game, they just ignore them and pretend they are not a problem hoping the people complaining will just either shut up and keep paying or leave (I'm guessing they are hoping for the first, specially EA)

Wouldn't it be better to fully test the game first then release a patch? I did hear some mention that 1.2 was being delayed cause they didn't want to make the same mistakes as in the past and wanted to release a polished product. All the unsubscribes then they scramble and give out 30 free days. My only question is what kind of moron is running this company.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH! Awesome!

Love that movie!

"Pardon me...I think you have my stapler..."

For what exactly?

Must have been you couldnt log in or some major problem for them to be that generous or else you are a BW stooge.

Play without bugs, not in this world, they had bugs from day one that hasn't been fixed

So the servers are off, so what. Everytime there is downtime one of these moaners threads pops up. They have to fix something deal with it, it's not the end of the world though some people act like it just might be.