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HelinCarnate
04.19.2012 , 03:20 AM | #381
Quote: Originally Posted by Barthallis View Post
so apparently you did not pay an initial price when you bought the game? i have been playing the game a month i paid for the game and prepaid for 3 months so ive spent over 100$ on this game so far and this is the 7th time this has happened since i have started. 7 times as in 2 times this week, 2 times last week once the week before and 2 the week before that. thats a full week so the 15 beans only covers 3 weeks instead of the 30 days as advertised, not saying this is a game changer for me i do love this game and i have gotten time and have played but i do feel this is just a bit extensive, my main issue is i do not want to see this game lose any more accounts i would like to see it get bigger and bigger instead of smaller and smaller, they already have tons of dead servers due to population decreases and this is not going to make that any better .
Leaving the pvp rewards changes the way they were would have cost them more customers than would quit over an extra 2 hour and 15 min down time. And the ones that would quit over an extra couple hours a week to fix major issues are the type of people that the game would do better without anyway.
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Wiserza
04.19.2012 , 03:21 AM | #382
Quote: Originally Posted by DarkoDon View Post
Shall I grab my silver spoon as well. Like I said, do YOUR homeworks... I did mine already.
And like I said the interwebs a big place, I have done some looking and on ALL the official posts I could find there was nothing , so either you are smoking something, or you are pulling facts out of thin air, care to prove me wrong?

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Rezarect
04.19.2012 , 03:22 AM | #383
Quote: Originally Posted by maxilo View Post
lol you actually are ok with 28 hours of downtime in three weeks ?

ok i give up

For me anyway it's not the downtime (maintenance is needed i know) it is the fact that almost everytime they add any patch (not just an update, but a small patch) they screw the job up and close down 2 or 3 days later to fix it.

That is my complaint, rank amateurs they are making themselves look imo.
lol at least its not like that one time in EQ2 where the servers were down for like 2 or 3 days straight!...actually i think they did it twice....


It better not end up that way BW.... >_>

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UltimateLemon
04.19.2012 , 03:23 AM | #384
Quote: Originally Posted by HelinCarnate View Post
Leaving the pvp rewards changes the way they were would have cost them more customers than would quit over an extra 2 hour and 15 min down time. And the ones that would quit over an extra couple hours a week to fix major issues are the type of people that the game would do better without anyway.
Yeah, looking at the patch log, some of them definitely should have gone in ASAP. I just think they should try to implement rolling patch deployment on times with less traffic per region.

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Tigalo
04.19.2012 , 03:24 AM | #385
Quote: Originally Posted by Sparxysparx View Post
Hi there,

Please keep in mind that this is unscheduled maintenance.
http://www.swtor.com/patchnotes

Best of luck!
Except the world event issue with vendor overcharging, all of these could have waited until Tuesday
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Sparxysparx
04.19.2012 , 03:24 AM | #386
Quote: Originally Posted by Orst View Post
And I've had 24 hours downtime in the 112 hours of game time that I have had available to play. So 78% uptime for me. Not good at all.
Quote: Originally Posted by Sparxysparx View Post
Never said I was okay with it. Let's now count it in with my free time instead of 24 hours a day...
Let's pin free time on 5 hours a day average. It means I only had 80% server availability (theoretically)
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DarkoDon
04.19.2012 , 03:24 AM | #387
Quote: Originally Posted by Barthallis View Post
so apparently you did not pay an initial price when you bought the game? i have been playing the game a month i paid for the game and prepaid for 3 months so ive spent over 100$ on this game so far and this is the 7th time this has happened since i have started. 7 times as in 2 times this week, 2 times last week once the week before and 2 the week before that. thats a full week so the 15 beans only covers 3 weeks instead of the 30 days as advertised, not saying this is a game changer for me i do love this game and i have gotten time and have played but i do feel this is just a bit extensive, my main issue is i do not want to see this game lose any more accounts i would like to see it get bigger and bigger instead of smaller and smaller, they already have tons of dead servers due to population decreases and this is not going to make that any better .
And not to brag, or think i'm more entitled to opinions than you buuuut.... you paid a lil over $100, good, I payed $162 for the collector's addition, and an additional 6month sub. I should be just as upset as you if i were being wronged or ripped off, but despite me paying atleast $100 more than you did, i am not, cause I know these games need downtime expected or not. I agree with you totaly on seeing this game get bigger, but they can't do that without inputing things that should have been in upon release. I was a major fan of the game till it came out. I stopped playing for a couple months after the earlly release week and another 2 weeks after. The reason was because the game was flawed, unfinished and there was little to do with the functions/opyions. They have made it better within a couple months, enough for me to stand coming back after paying over $200 before seeing it.

While I feel the pain of those that want the game to flourish and bugs to be fixed, I can't sit here and flame bioware when they are actually doing it. Not instantly like this world wants it, but they have done alot. Instead of comparing downtimes to the time YOU personally CAN play, lets throw the fixes and content added into the equation and see what we get.
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Sparxysparx
04.19.2012 , 03:25 AM | #388
Quote: Originally Posted by Tigalo View Post
Except the world event issue with vendor overcharging, all of these could have waited until Tuesday
From my research, HeroEngine (the game engine that SWTOR uses) can be updated without any downtime at all. I don't know what's up anyway.
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Galavan
04.19.2012 , 03:25 AM | #389
Quote: Originally Posted by CaptainAsa View Post
My bad I paid 30 dollars for 90 days not 30 dollars for 86 days? sorry for the math.
Stop complaining. The game will be 100% usuable at 2am. Quit your job, leave school, go on the dole, do what you need to do to get the product you are paying for.

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UltimateLemon
04.19.2012 , 03:28 AM | #390
Quote: Originally Posted by Sparxysparx View Post
From my research, HeroEngine (the game engine that SWTOR uses) can be updated without any downtime at all. I don't know what's up anyway.
Engine might not require a restart but implementation might.