4h. downtime... a SATURDAY???

As much as I like BW fixing the game, I think that taking down the servers on a saturday is not very smart.

I am from the UK
I work all week and only have a few hours to play in the evenings

Saturday and Sunday I like to play swtor.

To take the EU servers down on a Saturday morning, is just plain stupid !

Would someone like to tell Bioware the we are 8 hours adrift from them ?

Its all fair and well to start the patches in the USA in the early hours of there time zone, but don't they understand its the day time over

in England and the EU ?

Sort this issue out please Bioware

@ThunderZstorm -- Seriously, if this is of such importance to you, you really should unsubscribe and leave the game and forums! You're exhibiting an excessive amount of nerd-rage and an overblown sense of entitlement, plus making assumptions on what is being patched and why with no knowledge of what the obviously urgent problem is that you're going to blow an artery. Do yourself a favor -- go out, get some fresh air doing something in the real world, and decide if this is worth the amount of negativity you're giving to it. In my own opinion, you're too far gone to ever be happy on this game, so do us all a favor too and leave.

First or second post on these forum's.

And last aswell.

I own every Bioware game ever made, have all the dlc you ever sold.

I enjoy playing Tor.

But now i ended my subscription.

Oh yes european player ofcourse, and sick and tired of this.

Was there not a better way to inform players of this? Like creating a completely new thread saying "Emergency Shutdown January 28th" rather than putting it under the January 31st one? That or putting it at the log in screen?

I am glad that Bioware is taking the time to fix some of the numerous problems with this game, however the way they notified people were rather poor. A large majority of players do not use the forums, those who do are just the vocal minority. I know there are other things to do (read, tv, another game, sleep, etc.) but I assume that many people are complaining because they were looking forward to being able to play and then for a lot of people it was "SURPRISE SHUTDOWN" along with "Oh, we let you know by putting it under the January 31st thread"

Thats what you do after work. On weekends you spend time enjoying games and things not related to work and on the evening spend time with friends.

But this is not possible if they keep *********** things up. EA is known for this and I doubt it will change anytime soon. Not until they have someone who knows more about geography and customer service.

This is one of the reasons games like WoW goes so smooth. They have good customer service and don't **** things up so often.

I dont have much free time.

I think i might be going back to wow unless they get this EU friendly.

What I would like to know is, if Guild Wars can do updates and patches, add/remove content without taking down the servers, how come these other companies can't do the same?

How would you say that to the players having disconnection issues to the point the game is unplayable?

Yay another file 13 thread where bioware tell you all to come and make your 'suggestions' so they can ignore 1 thread rather than 50 threads.