maintenance, why so much

Does it matter? i think Europe has a point. why not just wait and make all maintenance on Thursday? Why do they haft to push maintenance at any time they want? We need to know when we can play. I was in the middle of a recruiting drive for my guild and had half a dozen players on the edge of joining when I got the 15 min. notice?

Actually you can use that as a Perfect example, since Blizzard broke into the MMO buisness with WoW same as Bioware is doing with SWTOR. Age of Game doesn't matter, most if not all MMOs have these bugs at the beginning especially from new developers.

To be honest, I'd LOVE to see the numbers on how much business Bioware lost with to this week's horrendous downtime alone.

I'm glad Bioware and EA have at least some loyal subjects that are willing to take it out of their mouths long enough to jump to the defence of their gracious masters..

I am in America and I am not asleep that's a mute argument for pay and play. Its Pay to play not pay to wait.

Reporting this here.

As an Oceanic Player, with how much maintainance tehre has been going on, I'm paying for a subscription to a product that is not available during peak periods.

The amount of downtime may very well be necessary in terms of the latest patch, but thus far this week I have only received 2 out of the 4 days of playable peak subscription that I have paid for.

Schedule Oceanic maintainance during non-peak periods. Poor management imo.

I see no incentive to make the move from WoW permanent if the product is going to be unavailable during peak periods, regardless of whetehr there is a patch or not.

Your all pathetic , and so am I for even replying to this drivel
let the game develop FFS !!! It's going to need down times and patches to do so .Let the game improve , it's going to need down time and patches to do so .
Let the game expand , it's going to need down time and patches to do so .
Asking for time refunded is just weak . your almost begging . Games go down and need patches to get fixed END OF STORY . ALL Games do it FTP . PTP ALL OF THEM !!!!
As far as I know Patches and Maint, is normal even if not on Tuesdays , sometimes a patch just NEEDS to be done .
or we can let an exploit/cheat/[problem , persist untill you ask for refunds because your being forced to play with this " Problem"
Don't say Goodbye , don't say anything exit -----------> that way

Oh jesus christ. **** already. WoW has been running for 7 years and their server downtime STILL does not cater to time zones. If you're oceanic, your server will be down during peak hours on maintenance, rolling restart or patch days. Bioware isn't doing anything that other games haven't done when it concerns downtime. It's only inconvenient for you because you're oceanic and live in a different time zone. I've played WoW while living overseas (Japan) and had to adjust to the time zone and way maintenance days operate. I stuck it out because I realized that it wasn't some elaborate plot to snuff overseas players, but a matter of semantics and location of the developers maintaining the game I love being in a completely different time zone.

While you folks on the other end of the world are enjoying your day, 90% of us are asleep or trying to sleep, OR IN THE CASE OF AN MMO DEVELOPER deeply involed in server maintenance while everyone else sleeps.

I would like to be compensated with gametime, for every peak period (local/country) maintainance that any account has to endure.

Why pay for a product that is unusable at times when most convenient for most people in your area?

compared to newer MMOs this is a lot i played rift from launch and the downtime was very minimal, however yes compared to MMOs that are 6 years old or older this isn't a lot