Another Downtime tonight 13 April ***

You are very right there that person should have thought that this is a new mmo and that there probably will be a few bugg issues and not say " ohh man this is unacceptable" well guess what you did accept it. And now that you are playing this game stop whining it's only 4 hours i think you can wait it out only think of it like this: this game will be alot better once they fix these issues better now then when you are on some "super important mission".

I'll just assume they forgot to nerf ninja nerf a few things.


'Um Director Sir? Based on our WZ statistical data from the previous 12 hours our team of chimps feel that the warriors definitely need a nerf. But also , sir, the orangutan team thinks bounty hunters, warriors, and sages should be nerfed. And of course, director, the gorillas say we should definitely nerf the operatives again and then rebuff marauders. '

I can. EQ2, WOW. In fact both had some serious downtime, worse than this. In WoW I ended up with either 42 or 43 days credit for all the downtime.

That said, no one likes downtime especially when it nails 'em right in their primetime but eh, rather that than bugs.

Actually I do not think they would consider the option to please everyone. I also don't think its Biowares call. EA likely hosts the servers, and EA is notorious for treating people outside of the USA with a lack of consideration, its one of their trademark reasons for why everyone tends to have a go at them. Late release dates, bad online servers, DLC that is only limited to America.

Now the logic of "But it was made in America so Americans should get the movie first". Well that same logic doesn't seem to apply to movies, or other media. See for example half of the fantasy movies these days which are set in New Zealand. Spartacus came out in America a full year in advance before screening here, and it was filmed in NZ, as well as half the cast being kiwi's.

The logic of "Its made in a this country, so it should come out here first" only works if it's applied on a broad spectrum to all media. Note that ME3 didn't get an early release in Canada, and Canada doesn't get patches and such directed at them, despite the game being made by a Canadian studio. So there is no reason that SW:TOR being made in America should mean patches are released with American customers in mind.

Then there is the really simple logic. If they didn't want to cater for international customers, why did they release internationally at all?

Oh and I agree, I saw bugger all wrong with 1.2 either, its why I'm throughly annoyed we need to be deprived of another 4 hours during prime time.

Well they owe us anyway, they promised us at least 8 hours downtime yesterday and they did not deliver, we only got 7

It does get tiring being an Australian, when everytime I try to play it seems like we have downtime. It's not that I don't understand the business side of things, but we always seem to get the short straw with international MMO's.

If we had to wait so long for them to get us a local server(s), then the local servers should at least be able to handle staggered downtime. I don't really care what the reason is, but if architected correctly then it would be possible.

I've had multiple local friends leave this game due to this reason, and while I am only a week into the game, it's definitely losing it's lustre. (bought it Saturday, have been unable to play 4 times since for one reason or another). Other games I enjoy have the same problem (Eve-Online - played since beta and still going), but at least they're downtime is 30mins-1hr and is predictable. They have a reason for it - centralised servers / single shard. Multiple server installations shouldn't need to be down at once.

I know it's been said, but it is very frustrating. Sort of like the game, not going anywhere just yet, just wishing MMO's in general would think about staggering patches for each of their representitve server farms..

That still leave 3 hours! Let me just get my pitchfork and torch...

Had the same thing. I thought it was just me being sucktacular or something. It was INCREDIBLY fast. Sorry it hit you too but I feel better knowing it wasn't me. After downtime, I guess I will log in and try it again and see if anything has changed cos that was a real bugger.

It is just another example of our being lied to, it is just shameful, Epic Fail!

( I am tired of fighting the QQ and so have decided to join them to see how it goes )

This guy. No emotional undertones, no nerdrage. A true Jedi. I wish I had half the Zen!