10pm downtime? Really?

Sigh, you wanted the release date now you have it now you QQ about downtime

when does it stop

Why the sudden change to 10pm as a downtime? You've already alienated the West Coast, New Zealand and Australia in the past, by shutting down at Midnight, now, you gotta screw over the West even more, and go at 10pm?

The downtime is 8 hours, same as every other downtime. Why the early shutdown? Why move it more into primetime?

Oh, and @StephenReid....3 days notice? Looks like about a 1 day notice to me, but then again, they didn't teach them new fangled math-e-ma-matics at my grade school, high school or college.

Wow, this post is incredible! And here I was wondering what I was going to do with all my time now that the "Where is 1.2?!" thread has been closed. I should have guessed there would be more toddlers to wrangle around here.

Do you remember when there were all those people whining about how all they wanted was a date. Give us a date, Bioware. We just want a date. That is all we want! C'mon Bioware! Is it really so hard?

YES!

Yes, it is really that hard. Because as soon as they even give an estimate THIS happens. Stephen Reid never said you were getting three days notice. He answered someone's question about how much notice would be given and he said "generally" they like to give "three days" notice. He did not say we are definitely giving you three days notice. Do a little research, OP.

And yes, for the record, this is why they never give us dates. Because people behave like this when they do.

I think there was a bunch of people waiting to pounce on Bioware when they would announce the delay to 1.2.....


...but when that didn't happen, they had to quickly grasp at something else to gripe about. So they unwisely chose something like lack of notice....for something that we were told in early March that was coming "in early April".

Nope. 4th or 5th.

And in the other MMO's I played, the downtime was a consistent day, and a consistent time.

So you could schedule around it.

Rotating the maintenance schedule would be welcome. Every week West Coast/Oceanic gets hit...not every now and then, but every week. Your post is lobbied just like someone that hasn't had to deal with any Weekly maintenance whatsoever. lawl@mid-afternoon-gameplay

It's about more than that.

If this was a F2P MMO, no big deal. I'm not paying for the service, so they can bring down the servers anytime as far as I care.

But, here, I am paying for a service. The service is, access to their servers.

They set an established downtime window, they should live by it.

I'm an engineer. I deal, in precision. Precision measurements, precision estimates, precision in schedules and delivery dates.

I expect those that I do business with, to do the same.

Consider for example: Season tickets to the <INSERT NBA TEAM HERE>

You buy those tickets, with the expectation to gain entrance to the game, upon turning the ticket over at the gate.

If the team decides to suddenly change it's starting times to 3 in the morning, when you can't show up, you'd be a little peeved, wouldn't you? In fact, if suddenly, you had no use for those tickets because of the time change, you'd likely demand a refund from the front office, would you not?

A a player who plays once a week on Thursdays this downtime does bug me a little. I just wish they would keep maintenance on a fixed night instead of chopping and changing (this not first time it has been switched to a Thursday). I know it is an important patch, but seeing missed this Tuesday and we have waited this long for it, we could wait just a little longer until next Tuesday.


Bioware, not really fussed about your maintenance times, but please can you keep expected maintenance on a fixed night. It is not all that much to ask for.

You're so precise, yet your precision somehow missed the Licence Agreement you accepted. They can bring down the servers whenever they want without any notice. And you agreed to it.