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Shingara
04.19.2012 , 01:57 AM | #171
I think its time they split the servers into regional sections, let us have there downtime in the night, eu in the night and oceana in the night. Thats only for the main downtime though.

If its an emergency patch that really needs to happen before the weekly mat then the servers should go down with an hours warning after the patch has been created to go onto the servers, not just when the americans have gone to beddy byes.
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blazercscz
04.19.2012 , 01:57 AM | #172
WoW may go down during Oceanic prime periods but its ONCE a week and at the exact same time each week ALSO its LATER in the arvo eg 10pm giving people in ocenaic time periods to actaully play a lil bit and GET ready for down time not just come home and go oh damn cant play

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CaptainAsa
04.19.2012 , 01:57 AM | #173
Yes We are complaining. And We love the game or we would not be so mad because its off right now. just give me my game i payed for and stop making us sit around in the middle of play to get your latest patch right now. i can wait till whatever day you tell me to fix the boss wont spawn . Or the quest is stuck, Just let us know when and where we cant play thats all you really need to do.

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maxilo
04.19.2012 , 01:58 AM | #174
Quote: Originally Posted by MstSage View Post
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.
no you can't use it. surely game companies would have learned all the lessons that Blizzard didn't know about ?

I have been involved with many many games and yes indeed for the first few weeks you have to accept this kind of thing.

We are 4 months in...... I think it's reasonable to expect a better service from them ?

4 months. we have empty servers. No comment made
4 months. we still are getting server outage twice a week (not always but often) we get a thank you for our patience
4 months. Bugs that were in beta still around. no comment made
4 months. maintenance still at terrible times (even though they said they would change. was said before release)

i have probably missed lots of things out but hey

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Venill
04.19.2012 , 01:58 AM | #175
Quote: Originally Posted by llesna View Post
If this is the worst downtime you've seen in an online game, you've not played many. I'm being serious. Anyone who's been round the gaming circuit for a while will have experienced firsthand or at least heard of awful downtime in online games over the last ten years. In comparison, SWTOR has managed amazingly.

Personally I'm HAPPY when there's downtime to put new patches in, as hopefully it means bugfixes, especially for some of the issues introduced in 1.2.

As for the progress of the game, you're right that the game needs more than has been done, but to suggest tha nothing noticeable has changed, "well, that's just like your opinion, man...".

The game needs to keep up the update pace and possibly even quicken it, but complaining about maintenance? Seriously?
when I played EQ we had a server down for 2 weeks, a few of us played on another server and formed a guild called the gameless, as we were from the nameless. So a maintenance patch here and there to fix bugs is no biggy really, frustrating yes. Back then you could not level a character in 2 weeks like you can now.
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Barthallis
04.19.2012 , 01:58 AM | #176
Quote: Originally Posted by Paladn View Post
To be honest, I'd LOVE to see the numbers on how much business Bioware lost with to this week's horrendous downtime alone.
agreed and i love this game but this is exactly the type of stuff that makes ppl go to other games and i would really hate to see this just become another MMO that is bein given away for free in a year

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JohnStoops
04.19.2012 , 01:59 AM | #177
Quote: Originally Posted by Tigalo View Post
Anarchy Online, Star Wars Galaxies, World of Warcraft, City of Heroes, Tabula Rasa, Fallen Earth, Age of Conan, RIFT and more.


Of all thos, the only game that was more adept at brining down the servers every time I had planned to play was AO.
just to further tigalo's comment ....why shouldn't we complain they are doing us a disservice by making a maintenance time and doing it a another time with no warning they are not in compliance with the agreement that we have all designated compliance too ....tell me that the maintenance couldnt have waited til the designated time

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Dinusz
04.19.2012 , 02:00 AM | #178
As an Oceanic player I personally like coming to these threads to laugh at the Europeans complain about a server going down at midday and how unfair/rediculous it is of Bioware.

Patches get deployed, the game [Apparently] gets fixed and we move on.

Lets be serious though - Its been what, 4 or 5 peak night shut downs from 5pm > 9/10pm AEST in the last 2 weeks? I'm all for having a game that runs smoothly and keeps ontop of their bugs but this is getting rather depressing.

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Xenirath
04.19.2012 , 02:00 AM | #179
Downtime to fix bugs, fine by me
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Smokey_the_Bear
04.19.2012 , 02:00 AM | #180
Guys, I'm normally the first to whine about excessive down times, but c'mon... it's four hours and we need it. They have a lot of fixes rolling out that really just can't wait. The sound bug for example, while many will live with it as I was, I keep missing warzone pops on a low pop server because I have to re-log.

There are other issues being resolved... The only thing I am not looking forward to is "Warzone's will not start until both teams are full" - while its a great fix that makes sense, it means pvp pops went from starting around 2pm to 7pm. Then they die at 3am.
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