maintenance, why so much

Lucky for you can play anytime you want. Think about others who play once a week, and poof its gone for 2 weeks in row.

Bioware please mix up your maintenance times so you are not always short changing the same customers. I don't think its a too difficult of concept to grasp is it?

They're doing a lot of maintenance in order to improve the game.

I wouldn't really give a toss how often they did maintenance if they did it inline with each server's local time, ie. NA server on NA times, Europe times for Europe and Asia Pacific times for Asia Pacific. But it just so happens they only ever do it during NA early morning which is my prime time so that's a whole day gone yet it's practically transparent for NA players.

It's just getting very frustrating with these constant interruptions. I unsubscribed for a while with this being one of the factors, heck in January there was a stint of 4 days in a friggen row where the servers were down during our prime time but I couldn't complain too much because the game hadn't been officially released here in Australia but now that it has it's perfectly reasonable to expect to be able to utilise the software like any and every other user.

Actually no I don't BECAUSE THE SERVERS ARE ALWAYS DOWN during PEAK TIMES IN PST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The down affects a majority of players on the WEST coast. Don't act like this is some sort plight only felt my Euro's or Pacific players.

Other MMO"s schedule their down times during peak low population times. BUT NOT THIS ONE! For whatever F'ing reason.

Personally, I'm very happy with ANY downtime at the moment. I cant play for more than 5-20 mins before my client locks up and needs a hard reboot. So any time theres DT, I hope it'll get fixed!

Also, knowing theres bugs being fixed, Im generally happy.

There are bugs, and bugs need to be fixed.

The downtime isn't that bad if you compare it to other games. World of Warcraft for instance was known for major down time during major updates, where people couldn't play, people lost items or spells, server rollbacks, etc... That's for one of their updates, they still did updates every Tuesday there after.

Then you have Rift, that game had updates every other day at times. The down time was insane, however many items were fixed or tweak rapidly. There was no "wait till Tuesday to enjoy content" it was "here's the content, crap we broke it, let us fix it, here you go".

I like downtime if it means the game and world I enjoy will actually let me play without game breaking bugs.

So more power too them.

However on that note, that isn't to say I don't sometimes get annoyed or mad when it goes down. I'm human, I enjoy the game, so yeah sometimes i get plans in game and then realize I have to cancel them. Just remember to check the forums often to see potential down times.

This downtime has killed two days this week for me too.. It always kills one day a week.. Sucks that it has to be at 12am PST..

change it to at least 2am like normal games. WoW is 3am pst.

Word.

While I actually would prefer that they do this (change to 2am PST) , I really have to facepalm for the sense of entitlement and the tone.

Seriously folks....they are FIXING stuff so your experience gets better....give em a little bit of a break


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