maintenance, why so much

OH.

Almost forgot...

I know you're trying to roll the patches out to all players at once, but seriously if you were to roll them out in waves based on where the servers are (so they're late night for ALL players) I know you'd get a WHOLE lot less complaining about it AND those who are up at odd hours could potentially play on servers that do not patch at those times (i.e. I, here on PST, could play - albeit with a much larger ping ofc - on an oceanic server) if they so chose.

I'm not really sure why you think it's so important to get it all out at once, but it seems like it's more about convenience to you than it is about anything else I can reasonably think of. Might wanna consider it...gonna lose players over this it seems from the posts I'm reading.

Lol well i would bet the Australian players would prefer to speak for themselves. You speak for yourself only.

Bioware... no more downtime and give us at least a weeks worth free for the time you have stolen from us. Yes stolen. I pay to play, not sit and wait for maintenance.

I would bet the majority of Australians understand the need for downtime and also understand they are in one very odd time zone compared to the rest of the world. Then there is the minority on here who simply are unreasonable. Its a whole 4 hours out of 24.

Bioware.

I know you justify it by saying "we're trying to maintain service" but really, more often than not it's 2 nights of outages per week, and the Asia Pacific people are hit once again by outages right in the middle of prime time.

How about if you're going to have a second outage during the week then you schedule it so that Asia Pacific people don't lose their friday or saturday nights prime time gaming?

This is becoming a deal breaker issue for me.

GFG another friggen friday night maintenance Woop woop bye bye subscribtion bye bye bioware i have tolerated this for this long waiting for improvements but its way more trouble than its worth

This.. I understanding the need for maintenance, so i can grudging accept the constant loss of my Tuesday gaming (although, I would have happy if the Asia-pac servers did not have the same maintenance schedule). I also understand that stuff happens and the needs for unscheduled maintenance happens but it feels like you are taking the piss. There are been a minimum of 2 outages in the Aussie prime-time bracket for the last 3 weeks.

Seriously, Seeing as there are dedicated Asia-Pac servers, could the maintenance for those servers be outside our primetime?

Theres 168 hours in a week. SWTOR goes down for maintenance once a week for 4-6 hours. Sometimes theres more downtime and sometimes less, so lets say its about 8 hours a week. Thats only about 5% downtime. How can you possibly complain about that and not feel like a spoiled brat?

"If we could give people a magic hat that would create for them the exact RPG experience they’d always dreamed of, they’d complain about the color of the hat.”
- Random Bioware Dev

Shut up. Stop whining. If you can't find something to do when the game is down go look in a mirror for where the fault lies (same as most of the other problems in your life). Flame me, cancel your subscription, write a letter, set things on fire...none of it will make Bioware give YOU your way. Just grow the hell up.

And yeah, the downtime happens to cut right through my primetime to play, but thats how it goes sometimes. If they change it, it will just screw someone else over. You can't please everyone, and never has that been more true than in MMOs. If you can't grasp that concept I would suggest you find a new hobby, but you'd probably just complain about it.


- TLDR -

"Heres a free month!"
YAAAAAAYYYY!!! BIOWARE RULES!

"Sorry, we have to do a little extra maintenance this week."
"YOU SUCK! HOW DARE YOU TREAT ME LIKE THIS!

I am not "the majority of Australians" but as a working aussie, these constant outages fall right in only playing hours. It feels like they are just taking the piss and disregarding our region all together.

I am mean.. whats the point of even having an Asia-Pac server anyways, if they get dropped with ever other server?

4 hours out of 24?

Work = 10 Hours
Sleep = 8 Hours
Travel Time = 2 Hours
Total time spent outside of house or incapacitated = 20 Hours..

So that 4 hours, is uhhh, the only game time for most people. here the servers went down at 5pm, peak time.

Just because an issue does not affect you like it may affect someone else does not mean you need to take the high and mighty road, coming on here puffing your e-chest out.