Another Downtime tonight 13 April ***

Parts of Europe got the game at the same time as America. Australia/New Zealand never got the game until March 1, 2012, unless we imported and played on offshore servers (which wasn't an issue really, and we would have happily accepted that). Thus, not many Australians/Kiwi's will get the 30 day trial, despite us being effected the worst by the patches and maintenance.

The excuse for this was because EA/Bioware needed to create servers for this region.

With a post like that i doubt you've ever worked in software development either, i'd be surprised if you work at all except under a bridge.

Of 1 hour, its basically for a server reset to keep everything running smoothly, 1 hour is nothing, have a shower, something to eat, and done, let alone 4, 6 or 8 hours like BW does, and all in 1 week. 18 hours of downtime and counting this week woo hoo. No wonder they gave a free month out, at least its SOMETHING, I suggested this to them AGES ago for the issues people were having, least they have listened to 1 thing out of the 50 or so bug reports / suggestions I have done.

Fùck this forum's rules.

Don't be so sure. Devs can be a rather excitable lot. The guys I worked with were known for breaking monitors and the boss finally put a punching bag in the break room.

Lots of stress in a dev. house and it's gotta get vented somehow.

Rofl, couldn't help to agree with you there. I guess the bloke can't look outside his own area's cause here it is 2pm, others its 9 or 10pm, oh the irony.

I am quite satisfied that they will be this swift on repairing the bugs they accidently left in. I'd rather have this then to live for a few more weeks with some bugs.
I also quite hope they maybe downtune LR-5 Sentinel Droid in the new Flashpoint, Lost Island, on Hard-mode.

Actually if you had worked in software development you would know that while the initial coding and troubleshooting is hard, implementing a patch isn't. Its also more so the role of the network and administrator technicians then any software developer. The package should be prepared for deployment before it even touches the server, and that is done by the software developer, but the actual implementation of the deployed kit is done by network engineers and server administrators.

So really, any holdup's in the coding side would occur off-server, and not impair the customer base. Which is why many of the player base is annoyed and somewhat confused as to the lengthy patching times, and the chosen timezones, when technically the deployment of a professionally developed patch could be done at different intervals, and with a shorter period of time.

You're so lucky the game is down, cos now I have time to pick your trolling *** apart...

You clicked on this post, champ. You could've just breezed past.

Oh how I wish it was 10am, cos then I'd be at work and not worry. You do know that we live on something we like to call a PLANET. It has 24 hours in a day, and so depending on where you live, it can be a different time. So 10am for you, Mr Einstein, is not 10am for everyone else. It might just be 10pm Friday for some of us, which is a great time for playing games.
The irony of this almost escaped me. You see, patches are to fix things. Not to fix the things they fix. They have a test server for that.

u mad bro?

Okay, I would like to see numbers that show that SWTOR inconveniences the majority. You can't make a claim like that without showing us proof. YOU CAN'T. BW bases their down time on the Global population levels so they only affect a minority.