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Another Downtime tonight 13 April ***

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Another Downtime tonight 13 April ***

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brovito
04.13.2012 , 05:21 AM | #131
People who are writing stop complaning, probably living in US. Well how about if maintanance will start 12 hours later, are you guys still able to say stop being mad? Of course not! I dont mind weekly maintanance. But 2 days in a row and middle of evening? Thats more than sucks! SW:TOR should have handled that maintanence time difference before releasing legacy patch! If we cannot able to play during day time, than how can bioware expect to earn money from us?

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GingerMagician
04.13.2012 , 05:21 AM | #132
Quote: Originally Posted by Karkais View Post
Dont complain, the downtime is to fix issues with the latest patch.

Id rather play without bugs than with them.
Well my experience of the patch was that I lost over 1200 warzone commendations as I had 650 merc comms which I bought at 3 wz coms for 1 merc and can now only trade them back at 1 for 1.

Secondly I am a cybertech and made several speeders to sell on the AH as was well advertised before the patch that they would become tradeable.When I put them on the AH it took my money and kept them on the AH but no one could see them and there was nothing displayed in the mount catagory.

Thirdly my endurance and cunning as a gunslinger with all buffs on me was reduced by around 40 points each with no menetion of this in any patch note and as a consequence my warzone damage was reduced about 15-20%.

Fourthly I had 750 champion commendations and these being now useless I had to click 1500 times to buy and open small credit boxes to turn these in.

Overall a complete disaster of a patch with so many easily avoidable mistakes and its no surprise to see a new 4 hour downtime now underway.

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jimixd
04.13.2012 , 05:21 AM | #133
Quote: Originally Posted by darrylhaines View Post
SWTOR is supposed to be a contender against wow.... look how they do the little things BW (like patch times) and you will be on the right track. Thing is, they have 3 server batches, US, EU, Asia (or something), not hard to start them off at different times so that they don't inconvenience the majority in the server time zones.
on that point... we have got separate us asia and euro servers so i dont see why all servers must go down at once.....

well i can imagine....

simply our buddies at bioware do not want to work at night time, poor little souls... i mean i would find it hard to get up at night for the extra few million dollars too..... im sure you guys all understand how hard that is....

I do just need to point out.... I have no problem with when they patch as long as they dont patch the day after a patch lol and as long as they actually stick to the times they post....servers in UK were meant to g down at 4pmBST yet here i am at 12:21BST


grrrrr.... still its sunny outside so i might brave fresh air :P

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DieAlteHexe
04.13.2012 , 05:22 AM | #134
Quote: Originally Posted by Magnesium View Post
I just wish they would stop using BST as a timezone, since the UK is back on GMT now and they are probably confusing people too easily.
I got tired of trying to sort it every time so I set another clock in Windows so that I can check easily from my toolbar.
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pairadox
04.13.2012 , 05:22 AM | #135
Quote: Originally Posted by xEminencex View Post
ive seen a few posts about doing it on a Tuesday
I aggree!!
Its 9:15pm on a friday, my partner is watching a movie, im relaxing to a few games of star wa... wait... a maintenance period yet again...
I understand most people from other countries dont give a hoot about anyone but themselves, but night time during the week is when most blokes jump on..
Do it during the day??? Not at 9pm on a Friday night.. Seriously.. Its not that difficult to see.
We may be a small minority, but we are a loud few
I see statements like that alot...

"Its all North Americas Fault! They think the world revolves around them, and dont care about anyone else." (granted that is a huge paraphrase of a lot of comments, not a direct quote of you.)

But the simple fact is... We... have no control over downtimes. We dont make them. They dont call us. Theres no North American Anti Everyone Else Downtime Meetings. EA or Bioware doesnt text us for our opinions on things....

They just do what they want. How they want, when they want.

So. Stop blaming us. Its not our fault. I get your frustration. I didnt do it though. And neither did anyone else living on this side of the pond. We got our own issues going on.

Love and Hugs

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Jurherrer
04.13.2012 , 05:23 AM | #136
I really do not understand this, it's a complete disrespect to your customers to schedule a maintenance in an afternoon (EU). I understand it has to be done, but some on! 4 months into the game and still all is in favor for the US? ask yourself this BioWare, how many people live in Europa and how many in the US! you are neglecting a HUGE potential customer base.

friends ask me already if they should try SWTOR and more and more I am "forced" to tell them no, the game is great, BioWare needs to learn a lot.

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Selvec
04.13.2012 , 05:23 AM | #137
Quote: Originally Posted by DieAlteHexe View Post
I have no problem at all with people expressing their discontent or being upset by it. Every durned time maint. occurs it's in my prime time. I'm not lovin' it either. I do think that they goofed on their decision but making a change now isn't as easy as some would like to think it is.

Well thats the thing, Australia/New Zealand is set up on a regional server thats different to the US/Europe ones. Remember, it was Bioware/EA's reasoning as to why we couldn't have SW:TOR at the same time as everyone else.

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Farcough
04.13.2012 , 05:23 AM | #138
Quote: Originally Posted by Magnesium View Post
I just wish they would stop using BST as a timezone, since the UK is back on GMT now and they are probably confusing people too easily.

Er... we are on BST now, not GMT.

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Katajinka
04.13.2012 , 05:24 AM | #139
Thing is I wouldn't whine if the patch had been applied a month ago (it was supposed to go live in March). Now we get imcomplete (no RWZ) patch after waiting so long for any changes in the game and it still isn't working properly. Test it better next time before releasing plx.

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Mortainius
04.13.2012 , 05:24 AM | #140
Quote: Originally Posted by KalTorrak View Post
Exactly... BUT, has Bioware yet to refund anyone? No lol. And I'm pretty sure people have experienced a LOT of bugs wrecking their playing experience (I know I have) with WoW (and no I'm not a fan boy defending them, just stating facts) at least I got $$$ back for my play experience being wrecked, or not being able to play at all, something I cannot say for BW.
Anyone who has had an active subscription is being given 30 days playtime added to their account on the 24th April. this argument is null and void...

Quote: Originally Posted by Magnesium View Post
I just wish they would stop using BST as a timezone, since the UK is back on GMT now and they are probably confusing people too easily.
This IS valid, the GMT time zone should be used at least when referencing the UK