maintenance, why so much

Lovely. Another downtime between 7pm to 1am; 2nd time since Monday. I understand there are bug fixes that needs to be made but unless these are P1 bugs, it really should be rounded up and deployed in one go if the deployment time is 6 hours.

Heck it must be absolutely nightmarish to whoever is deploying these fixes.

If my kid is retarded, sure I'll say what an excellent kid he/she is. but we all know better, My kid could do a 10 piece puzzle in 6 hours. So be it. it's my kid. but seriously, comparing a 2012 mmo with a 2004 mmo is seriously more developmentally challenged than my fictional child. Look, I'm not complaining, but can't we do better? My email never goes down. Facebook rarely goes down. But yet we have have 6 hour down times every time I want to play?

I'm going to have to agree that this game does have excessive downtime. I've been playing MMO's for 15 years and can't recall ever having multi-hour maintenances 2-3 times per week. I would rather they just save all these fixes and put them all in during 1 long downtime than make half my week unplayable. Makes my $15/month subscription not seem worth it.

Also, having regional downtimes makes much more sense than the blanket format they're doing now. At least we'd be able to play other servers while waiting.

I'm not trying to sound like a whiner here, I do love the game and don't plan on quitting anytime soon. I know in the end the fixes will make the game better. But the downtime IS a little excessive.

Uhm... yes it does.

what are you talking about i am complaining with you i am pissed the sever maintenance takes place at this time it is when i play

^ This. Excellent.

totally agreed i want this game to be huge, i was on rift when it started i seen the huge surge of people they got at the beginning, and than i also seen accounts drop over the following 6 month period due to just stuff like this and now look where rift is almost giving their game away for 14 dollars a copy now. i would be really upset if thats where this game ended up

REIMBURSE GAMETIME FOR OCEANIC PLAYERS!

If we can't play during peak periods, I demand to be compensated or do you expect the average player to stay up to the wee hours of hte morning or to stay home all day simply to be able to use the product.

I have a job. I can only play during peak periods as many other players can. Hence why they are peak periods. If the product is unavailble during these times I expect to be compensated.

While I wouldn't ever seriously suggest that, my god it would be entertaining. This forum would literally explode.

They should just make downtimes region specific.Every other mmo i've played has done this.To lump everyone into the same maintenence time is just lazy.I don't understand why Bioware refuse to fix this.
And the amount of downtime the last week or so has been unacceptable.I dont know what todays downtime is for.Some info would be good