Fed Up With Weekly Downtimes

Its one day, you can live without it for a few hours. If you can only play the game on Tuesday nights..well perhaps an MMO isn't for you.

Lol... just. They go down when they start work. It's how work goes, you should know that and appreciate that.

Hey hunny I won't be home till 2am this morning, we are running maintenance.

Why so late?

Because someone threatened to unsub from SWTOR unless we changed OUR hours and lifestyle around to suit him.

But I don't think Eve has as many servers as SWTOR or other MMO's do, they have a fair number I think because of the economy and the size fo the game but just imagine taking Eve's server cluster size and multiplying it by the number of servers in SWTOR currently.

maintenance while very annoying its completely neccesary and keeps the game servers healthy and your client reatively bug free , i woke up at 8 am this morning hoping to do some warzones and was a tad disapointed the servers where offline . but i do understand why it happens and frankley so should you , go walk the dog or something

I feel for you, as I am not a kid, I remember seeing the first SW movie in the theater, and I was in my late 20's when I started with EQ1 at launch in 1999. So if you didn't begin with MMO's until a later generation of them, you will perhaps not understand the lack of sympathy and/or empathy from people who watched servers taken down with a) no warning for b) days at a time with c) no refunding or extension of gametime. Added to d) server queuing and e) running to retrieve one's corpse.....ah, those were the days! /sarcasm off. A dad or mom could probably accomplish nothing in the original EQ1 as a casual player. And we most certainly paid for well over a year to ALPHA EQ2, let alone beta it....I look at a game like SWTOR and think, how far have games come in rolling out beautifully smooth launches and being a wonderful environment with little downtime for casual players. And let there be rejoicing in the streets.

I'm sorry there's no convenient way for the game companies to roll out patches to separate time zones unless, like EQ2's Euro and Korean servers, they are literally run as separate companies. In which case, what the left hand did had no affect on the right hand. Not the case for BW.

This guy would hate Ultima Online. It has downtime every night.

wow people moaning cause the servers go down at midnight - ya ever thought about the people from the EU, whilst your cosy in your bed and us EU folk is awake the servers are down for us, and there as been times when for us the servers are not back online from 6pm to midnight, so thats all of our raids cancelled - but hey its prime time for the US folk then that's ok right ?

Confirming this. I am calling obvious troll is obvious on the OP

Mainenance fine, but how about revolving the "downtimes" so that the same timezone doesn't get done dry EVERY time?...

I have. WoW (at least 'til BC release when I quit), EQ, DAoC, and several others. It's a n inconvenience for some, no doubt but it's usually only a few hours of the week and I make good use of the time to get weekly chores done. It's kind of a tradition. Going to the big city for errands on server down day.