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

server side patch is how I know.. It doesn;t affect the client you are using the same client you used yesterday.

They bring it down ONE saturday and that was enough to bring you over the edge? man...You must have a hard time functioning in society if you have that little patience for people.

BW is doing what they feel is best...They are trying to make the game better...people just don't realize that the only reason WoW can patch at different times is because all regions are on their own separate client...Its not the truth here.

I'm in NA and would agree to US Primetime downtime...Just because there's other things I can do. I'll have a fun time with my girlfriend...or maybe working...who knows, but the fact is I have other things I can do besides play this.

Well we can easily fill this in. This someone's primetime is always that of more average Europeans then average Americans. I don't really buy this 'someone will always get hit', when it's always the European community that takes the bullit. This isn't the first time, they also did it during the holiday. If you take such a stance, at least divide it evenly and rotate who's primetime you're going to ruin.

And intelligent people don't resort to sweeping generalisations. If you were actually not ignorant enough to know your stats, you would realise that most of the EU has similar obesity rates to the US.

Get yourself some knowledge and try again later.

lol you know they messed up bad when they are on a thread closing binge.

If the company we give money to for access to their servers when available were a true democracy instead of a business, I'd clone myself so I could vote for that twice. I hate not being able to play.

I agree with the OP
Living in Australia, I get one day with no game at all on Tuesday patch. I can live with that, being Oceanic timezone we are used to ge tthe shaft. But this extra patch is just the straw hat break s the Bantha's back!

I am REALLY curious to see if Bioware is going to get their act together when it comes to the 'official' Australia release. Somehow I am not holding my breath...

I managed my expectations, and now as far as this company's patch and maintenance routine are... they are VERY low

You know, that if you use your brain for 5 minutes and look at a clock you'll see the answer yourself? Let's talk GMT time here:

02:00 GMT - patching starts. 8 hour maintenance for the EU servers. It's around 6:00 PM in the US.
08:00 GMT - patching for the US servers starts. It's around 2AM in the US.
10:00 GMT - patching is complete for the EU servers. EU players can play.
16:00 GMT - patching is complete for the US servers. US players can play.

See? Separate maintenance, no version problems. I'm gonna prove it to you using an example - Jimmy - who's playing both on US and EU servers. He's playing ToR version 1.1, they're upgrading it to 1.2.

He's playing on the EU server. It goes down. He relogs to the US server. The version is still exactly the same. He continues to play. Then the US servers go down. For two hours poor Jimmy can't play. When the EU servers go up he patches his client and starts playing. When the US servers go up he can switch to them and the version is still exactly the same. It's entirely possible, it's just that Bioware fails so hard they're not even able to do it.

Regards,
Kalantris

Uhh, the reason is right there guy, plain as day.

You're coming into this thread, making a huge stink, insulting everyone around you, and generally farting up the place, and ForumAdmin is whacking you upside the head and telling you to stop being a **** poster and act like a freaking adult.

Your close minded outlook is scary.

And, yes threads are closed because these forums constantly explode with rants and flame wars between nerds who like to talk big through their keyboards. I always have to laugh when people bring up 'my freedoms are being repressed!' when really the mods just are trying to keep the filth and worthless QQ that doesn't contribute ANYTHING to a minimum.

Your conspiracy theories have no basis in fact.

Being militant and aggressive does not make people listen to you.

Insult and flame away, I only expect it from someone angry and raging.