Scheduled Maintenance for Game Update 1.3: June 26th, 2012

They piss on you and me and we pay them for it... not anymore.....

To the poster above....and what you quoted. When you say you "couldn't move", did you actually have an issue transferring servers, or did you make the CHOICE not to move? There's a big difference in there. As for the transfer service, it's not done yet. They stated way back when this first came about that there will be multiple phases of these transfers. This first phase was to give people an opportunity to help fill up some other servers and get them lively again.

As for 1.3, well the reason they had to focus on that is because they have a deadline to make. This is the way a business works. Once 1.3 goes out and the dust settles, apply any emergency fixes in the event they break something (my money is on they break something a la 1.2), then they can go back and finish up other server transfers (legacy merges, paid transfers to server of choice, etc)

Their decision to release 1.3 tomorrow is one of simple economics. I don't recall for certain but I believe BW/EA's fiscal calendar matches with the yearly calendar (i.e. Q1 ends March, Q2, June, etc). If they release before the end of the quarter multiple a couple things can happen:

1. It can can be listed as a release during their quarterly earnings call - This makes people think their progressing, etc
2. There are 2 things here people have been waiting for : Group Finder & Rated Warzones. There's a fairly good chances that folks will resub for these features at least to check them out (of course, folks could unsub as well, but I'm guessing they're banking on more resubs than unsubs). This goes to subscriber numbers in an attempt to staunch the lost numbers from last quarter.

These reasons are akin to why the game was released at the end of Q4 last year when most people would agree (after having their geekgasm b/c the game finally launched) that it was launched too early/incomplete/buggy, etc.

My reasons for this extrapolation? For both 1.1, and 1.2 releases, the update was released on the PTS about a month (give or take) before being released live. In that time there were multiple updates to the PTS. For 1.3, there was a single update, and relatively few (serious) issues answered to in the forums. It is possible that the reported issues were very easy fixes (i.e. not requiring extensive user testing) and/or development/QA/Project Mgmnt were satisfied with things as they were (notice i didn't say happy).

That being said, I would expect the patches over the next 2-3 weeks to contain a few more fixes than usual and wouldn't be surprised if there's an out of band updates 2 days after 1.3 ships (I've got a drink riding on that....my buddy thinks it'll be the next day).

Disclosure : I'm a fairly happy player, with 3 50s, who stopped PvP'ing after 1.2 shipped (Valor 54), but am still amazed by some of the issues/bugs that have been introduced/not fixed along the way (Sound fixes! Hello!)

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Maunga (50 Sage), Ocos (50 Commando), Yabmob (50 Shadow) - Former Space Slugger, now Harbinger

Are paid transfers being included with the release of 1.3 tomorrow?

Nope.

I didn't hear anyone talking about paid transfers coming out for tomorrow,so I'd have to so no.
Heck I was hoping the paid transfers would come out before 1.3,but I guess that's been pushed back.

thanks.

I was just wondering if we need to do anything.. like:

Cancel all your GTN listings
Collect all your emails
Pray our servers make it back up.
Write down what legacies you currently have

Other stuff?

Is it delayed again?

Are we there yet?