maintenance, why so much

That's down for me. I was wondering if he had some kind of an alert rather than polling a server status site.

I think we should all just be thankfull that EA don't make cars or run restaurants or hospitals.

Actually now that I've thought about that, it really does feel like I'm paying for some sort of fast food that looked amazing in the picture, but I have to go back to the window with and say, "you forgot my fries" or "I ordered this burger with extra cheese" or "WTEEEFF? THEY'RE NORMALLY OPEN BUT THE FRACKING DRIVE THROUGH IS CLOSED AND THEY'VE TAKEN MY MONEY AND LEFT ME WAITING FOR MY FOOD THAT IS DUE IN A FEW HOURS WHEN I'll BE BACK AT WORK AGAIN."

What's to be expected from the winners of The Inaugural Golden Poo Award of 2012? Oh but to be so special to win it not even a quarter of the way through the year; gratz indeed EA. The sad thing is that Bioware, once an amazing company, has been sucked into the fold of these bigwig, money grabbing, console game crunching noobs, aka Electronic Arts.

But really, lets all just be thankfull that Guild Wars 2 is very close and the smart ones won't have to deal with these cash grabbing EA muppets that aren't even worth a cunpfull of cold water

When WoW or any other mmo for that matter had unscheduled emergency maintenance, people cried that they should get back the time lost. They never did.

Now SWTOR has emergency maintenance and before anyone cries to make up for it, they did it cause they knew it was the right thing to do. Now look. You people expect even more now. lol. Read what you accept when you start an mmo, they make you scroll down and click accept.

We should all get a million dollars and a ferrari for the time lost. Yet people will still complain. Gotta love the masses.

Have not gone away competely. Play a Sentinel and see for urself.

Direct quote from the makers of the engine....

Official white paper could say that but specific implementation might prohibit it. For example, part of the some code might be intrinsically linked with the database, so if they do an update, they need to restart. Or possibly module or service outside HeroEngine may require a restart if they modify something related to it.

I really wish people would stop comparing TOR to vanilla WoW.

You don't sell someone a PC and say, "This little baby has 256MB of RAM. 7 Years ago you'd be paying through the nose for that kind of setup!"

TOR has a HUGE development team compared to Blizzard when WoW launched, as well as substantially larger budget.

Technology and development tools have come a long LONG way since then too. Developers are arguably better trained and more highly paid, and therefore more dedicated. Processing ability of modern computers is so much better compared to 7-10 years ago.

Hell, even creating animations and 3D models takes a fraction of the time compared to back then. 3DS Max was an infant, and trained individuals scarce. zBrush? Forget about it.

So why, oh why are people constantly comparing this launch, and first year in operation to something that happened almost a decade ago, in the fastest evolving industry in the world?

Sigh, another down time. Is it so that people can't level to 50 or legacy level 6? This smells of a conspiracy, especially for Asia-Pacific players where the down time is during peak play time.

You haven't played many MMOs then.

It's back up. I'm on it right now.