Extended Maintenance

SWTOR's policy specifically prohibits many people from posting comments to this thread making references to trolls, trolling, or other forms of adverse commentary. In no way am I specifically calling anyone a troll, of course. After all, I could be violating policy if I did.

In order that my comments remain pertinent to this conversation, I would ask any of the posters here a simple question - what titles do you have from your time on the PTS? I am also curious to know how familiar these same posters are with the changes in 1.3. Also, is there some level of understanding present regarding the unique challenges of such a large game patch amongt the negative-posters?

No they are not.

No, YOU'RE the one missing the point. The point is that extended maintenance is NOT a failure or a sign of incompetence.

I have to admit, one of the perks to big patches like this is coming onto the forums and watching all the flaming whiners piss and moan. People act like Bioware has the only game where maintenance has been extended past projected times.

Your right, at least the first time they do it.

How many times has it been now...

3, 4+ plus removing ranked warzones from 1.2 because they realized it didnt work, not to mention the rubbish armor designs, the epic loading screens (and my comp runs with all graphics on high seamlessly), even with all settigns on low. The lack of open world pvp, the failure of ilum. need i go on?

this is most definitely incompetence

It's more about communication, communication breakdown is the biggest issue socially. The issue people are having with BioWare is that they post information in a pacifist manner, most Dev comments are vague and clouded with clauses from the policies to deflect players. "Maintenance may be extended" Well the pope may take a dump and it just may sprout legs and become a super hero. Just because something could happen doesn't mean it should be assumed it will, even still when the maintenance is extended there's practically no information on it. Servers were supposed to be up at 6am CDT, I got on to download the patch and didn't see an update til 9am CDT. Just to put the cherry on top of this, why is it that BioWare updates their twitter page before the forums? Does that seem entirely illogical to anyone else that a company would post information about their own product on another company's website before updating their own? I hate Twitter, I've never bothered to use it so why is it that if I want to know what's going on I can't use this site? That's in though, it's just all illogical. I'm sure though if BW were posting it's game update comments on a site that wasn't as popular as Twitter you'd all be upset then.