Why pay for this....

It could be Fail Wars 2: The Epic Sequel for all i care but the one thing which captured me instantly:

SWTOR: Maintenance for the 2nd or 3rd time this week in my primetime for a block of 4-6hrs each

Guild Wars 2: In game message: An update was just performed restarting your client in 3mins. Voila done.

I can deal with down time maintenance if I'm not paying a subscription fee,

The math of subscriptions for this game


Subscription's for this game = Minimum Content per update = Four to five hour of down time per week = cash cow for EA

To be fair while you arent paying a sub-fee most will still pay something. Just for the specific bits they want.

I'd see the point being made for down time and your spent monies but considering that maintenance is most likely the most expensive thing for an mmo I'd say that your monies are going to exactly what you are thinking you are owed for your payment. Written in a text format to explode your brain with overly long sentence un-structure. Yeah I made that up...

So, does the OP also want to be paid back for the hours he sleeps, or when he's at work, or every other hour he doesn't spend on the game?

Bioware has not made us a great game. We have continuous lag. The game has been out for how long, and is pushing out new content very very slowly. Class balance in this game is a joke. We don't even have open world pvp. I doubt we'll ever hav open world pvp due to how bad the game handles people clustering together. Last and most importantly, the game was built around a horrible horrible engine, which is why we're probably experiencing so many issues to begin with.

This game was only fun for the stories. The warzone pvp is decent, but not the best. I agree with the OP on this thread. I don't mind downtime, but we're not seeing any gains what so ever. The servers are still laggy, and game is running like crap. People say be patient for new content, but how long are we really suppose to wait? Also, Bioware, as a company, is in shambles. Of course that is my opinion, but they've had major lay offs these last few months. Their investors are unhappy, and EA isn't helping at either. If you think Bioware has made such a great game, then why has the game lost so many subs?

Furthermore, it's not up to the community to make the game look good. It's up to the devs to fill our needs by providing us a game we're willing to spend money on a monthly basis. Continuous server downtimes doesn't help fill that need. It the downtimes were actually meaningful then it would be a different. This downtime will be for server stability, but we all know we're going to experience lag spikes tomorrow regardless.

cause it's fun....next.

Honestly, going F2P isn't as bad as it sounds. Of course right now it does but a lot of companies who run mmos are considering a F2P model. It brings more people in to your game when they release they have the option to opt out with no consequences on how much they've spent over the years. You aren't necessarily paying for the content they dish out, you are paying to log onto their server they provide and play. Blizzard themselves has considered going F2P. Considering the amount of revenue they have coming in from all their titles. It's safe to say they could remove it without a problem.

you've never played WoW have you?

Because the other 160 hours a week are well worth $15 a month.
Because they do communicate, they just don't answer every inane question that pops up on the forums. They need to be concentrating on developing the game and that is what they do.