Fed Up With Weekly Downtimes

This, basically.

I don't think any rational person would debate that downtime for maintenance is not necessary. The inequality, however, arises from it being done at a (fairly) arbitrary time. Sure, this is probably the time with the least amount of CCUs, but that doesn't mean we are less of customers. Some of us don't have the same schedules as the majority of North America. Some of us live outside of North America. Do we pay less money monthly than you?

I think this would be less of an issue if the downtime wasn't multiple times a week (as it has been, recently). The game has been out for a few months now, there's no reason a better downtime schedule couldn't have been worked out by now.

Probably cos it's not cost-effective.

They have already said it simply is not possible to split the maintenance times up. Just going to have to deal with not being able to play for a few hours once a week. You will be ok trust me.

Your care for my feelings is flattering, but ill advised. You don't know me, as I do not know you, and I would never presume to. Maintenance knocks off 1/4 of my total playtime. A "few hours" could mean a lot more, in the right perspective.

Move to Australia where servers go down FREQUENTLY during PEAK PERIODS.

Be grateful that it is very late hours of the evening.

You will be a lot happier when you realize not everything is about you. If you havent noticed I am on here too. This is when I normally play. I accept the fact that I am not the only person in the world tho so I can relax and wait. Its one day a week usually and normally 4 hours. They had to take the servers down to remove the event anyways.

Is always strange people stating that every MMO has a weekly maintenance.
Rift never had weekly maintenance and was performing well. Yes they had weekly maintenance but it never interrupted gameplay or at best you just had to restart your client.
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Difference is on WoW at least Blizzard staggered the downtimes throughout the regions so that in each time zone the servers went down usually between 2am and 6am or those sort of hours.

That way they weren't constantly taking them down during one regions peak time.

You'll find a good majority of those telling you to deal with it are those in time zones who don't get affected by the times.

Well.. in all fairness WoW doesnt have maintainance every week anymore since cataclysm came out, but then again they now have an huge amounth of servers being brought down for emergency patches on seperate days now.

I wouldnt call them pink glasses, Id go with blinders.

Yeah I totally sympathise with the OP, partly because I'm European and if anyone gets really screwed by downtime, it's us!

I don't think that many of the responders are being entirely fair. It is of course true that WOW had weekly downtime as you rightly point out, however, that weekly downtime normally lasted an hour and was a different times depending on what part of the world you were in.

This is in no way similar to what happens here on SWTOR, they have made a financial choice to choose a single world downtime rather than tailor it to a broader spectrum of playtimes. They are a business and they have to be profitable however the facts remain and the similarities between WOW server downtime and SWTOR server downtime are not really a comparison between apples and apples.