Finally a company that looks after its subscribers

I'm content and feel it was generous of Bioware/EA. I have to say at the risk of sounding a broken record..they're doing what they can as best they can as fast as they can, in my opinion. I wish there weren't so many self-entitled, hateful critics constantly bashing these guys. Patience is a virtue.

It happened in vanilla only. Might have happened once or twice in TBC as well which i cant remember but that's about it.

There's a pattern there...and a reason.

Which is fine tbh... in this early stage of the game it's beneficial. I'd be raising an eyebrow if they did this further down the line though.

No link means that it's no different than simply creating a list of dates in order to support a certain position.

small patch = 200mb.
maybe my definition of small is different from other people but that seems more like a medium.

Doing what they can the best they can? That's the problem. "The best they can" is bad. It shows they don't know what they're doing. There have been a LOT of issues that came down to pure unprofessionalism and laziness.

This isn't about being self-entitled. This isn't about being hateful. This is about calling out gross incompetence. Things like this, things like a lot of the bugs in the game...they just shouldn't happen if the devs knew and properly used best practices. There is a clear trail of consistent errors traceable to incompetence, laziness, negligence. Things like saying bugs are fixed when it takes less than a minute to go into the game after a patch and see that the bug that was claimed fixed was not fixed. Things like the diplomacy bug that shows the devs don't even understand how floats work. Things like the issue today...if only ONE dev had bothered to log in and take a look around--ONE dev, five minutes--they could have just extended the patch downtime, said there was a problem, but not looked like complete asses by revealing the level of their ineptitude. This is supposed to be one of the top MMOs ever to be released but it's being developed and managed like it's some college kid's class project. Sorry if I insulted any college kids who know and use development and testing best practices.

Patience is a virtue. So is knowing when to replace what was supposed to be a 'top' dev team that just can't handle their project and show no signs of improving.

Nah i dont think swtor will be in trouble i think it will last years like Star Wars Galaxies.

"All servers are now back up and running! Please note that you will download a small patch upon login (approx. 200MB). Thank you for your patience. As a reminder, due to today's unexpected maintenance, all active subscribers will receive a full day of game time as compensation"

you wouldn't see blizzard do this,

Er.... Blizzard did do that, several times.