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snowmon
04.13.2012 , 01:51 AM | #51
@ work...../careface
lvl 55 PT DPS, ToFN Server

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JRonnie
04.13.2012 , 02:00 AM | #52
Patching 'again' in the middle of a Friday primetime night for Oceanics. Well played Bioware, well played.

Heaven forbid that a few night owls on the West Coast in the US should be inconvenienced on a weeknight.....

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Tiofrias
04.13.2012 , 02:17 AM | #53
Hope the fix it and, Bioware can provide the characters transfer into Oceania soon!!!!!!

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kidice
04.13.2012 , 02:20 AM | #54
Just read the EULA !

they are well within that, and you accept that EVERY time you log in.

Kids.....

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Comrade_Leader
04.13.2012 , 02:24 AM | #55
Quote: Originally Posted by Yomitako View Post
hey look, more crying and moaning about downtime. It never ends folks. As for the ones complaining, stop and think before you type.

Or would you rather the game remain up with game-breaking bugs or exploits? Either way, the same lot of you people are gonna come here and complain and whine anyways, so I guess it doesn't matter.

Way to look a gift horse in the mouth. I'm rather glad I don't know you in real life.
I suspect for many people the feeling is mutual.

If you disagree with someone else's viewpoint, either respond with civility and courtesy (and thus prove you are a mature, educated human being), or leave the thread alone and ignore the OP (and thus prove you are a mature, educated human being).

When you make personal attacks, it shows that you do not know how to think, defend your viewpoints, argue a case, or deal with your own emotions.

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Leggomy
04.13.2012 , 02:26 AM | #56
The downtime has to be in someone's prime time. Just going to have to put on those big boy (or girl) pants and get over not being able to play for a whole 4 hrs.

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Comrade_Leader
04.13.2012 , 02:26 AM | #57
Quote: Originally Posted by Nexdine View Post
I wish people would stop littering the boards with this trash.

A major release is put out. Issues pop up. Bioware fixes issues quickly. People go insane because the sense of entitlement kicks in due to being unable to play a game for a couple of hours.

Sheesh, Bioware even gave all the hard core players 30 days free only just now.

I seriously dislike it when they patch during anyone's primetime as does anyone else I would assume, but unfortunately it's prime time in multiple locations around the world sometime so someone has to get the short end of the patching stick. Just deal with it. Go out and see the sun for a change or read a book or something.

I wrote one angry post myself when they pulled a primetime patch to do something that benefited only free weekend players but my beef there was the sheer lack of notification combined with primetime... but what do people really think is going to happen when a big patch is put in place? Something crops up that needs fixing, and waiting won't do a thing, so they patch. And people QQ like mad.
Translation: "my angry posts are legitimate because they are about real issues, while your angry posts are just QQ". How perspective changes everything!

However, holding people to different standards to which we hold ourselves is usually called hypocrisy.

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Zhiroc
04.13.2012 , 02:30 AM | #58
I'll point out that there are other games out there that have lots of downtime. Eve Online, after 8 or so years of operation, has DAILY downtime. In the beginning, it used to last anywhere from 1-3 hours. And since they had only one server (and now only have 2, I think), there was not even the possibility of "staggering"

Plus the server would crash from time to time, and a restart took a minimum of 1 hour....

I believe that for one of their major content releases, the game was offline for a day (at least).

Welcome to the world of MMOs

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Comrade_Leader
04.13.2012 , 02:32 AM | #59
Quote: Originally Posted by RickRedOne View Post
You can't have it both ways. The forum had many posts with "WE WANT 1.2 NOW!!!"

So they gave it to us. Now they need to fix the things that they didn't have the time to do in order to get it out.
It sounds like you're blaming the forum\community for this state of affairs.

It is fairly obvious that much of the patching has been last-minute and rather rushed, including the eleventh hour yanking of ranked PvP. We are entering into a twilight zone where a new patch is needed to patch the patch.

Bioware needs to learn to do things right the first time around. I sympathise with the OP, because it does feel as though maintenance is being done too often, for too long, and for those of us in Oceania, the patching happens during the day. It is frustrating, particularly when one is paying.

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HelinCarnate
04.13.2012 , 02:34 AM | #60
Quote: Originally Posted by SilkyBazaar View Post
But why on a Friday night, 5PM to 9 PM local time is not a good way to maintain a happy customer base?

Please change your major patch night from Thursday so the Oceanic timezone don't also lose Friday night primetime as well with Emergency patches. Patching content on a Tuesday so we lose the occassional Wednesday I can live with.
Niether is having sound bug out everywhere you go. Lesser of 2 evils.
Dear BW,
Please nerf paper and buff rock. Scissors is fine as is.
Signed, Rock.
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