Why does the West keep paying the price?

Why pity them for the servers being down for a few hours? Do they not have anything else to do during those hours? I personally sleep through the maintenance times. In fact, the days I have Tuesday off I simply sleep in instead of getting up at 2AM like I normally do for work.

What other games have for server maintenance times is rather irrelevant.

No it's 2 am CST. I too am frustrated with the time frame they have chosen for maintenance EVERY week, and sometimes 2x per week. Getting ridiculous.

It's not an american game. It's a global game. People all around the world play it. It's not just Americans playing it. If they released it in america, and said they just want americans playing, then that'd be fine. They released it worldwide, and asked the world to play it.
I do think that 10pm isn't the best time for you, and I'm sorry for you. However, you're not alone. I believe the oceanics get royally stuffed, and Europe basically can't play for a large percentage of Tuesday, every week.
So, sorry matey, sucks, I know. You should do what I do when I can't play, watch a film, go out, do housework. That kind of thing. Sounds like I'm taking the mick, but I'm serious, you'll forget all about the game for those few hours, enjoy doing something else, and be less stressed over something that's out of your hands.

Suck it up, mate. Us Australian's have ALWAYS had maintenance done during our peak hours. So many boring Friday nights. Now, for the FIRST time we get a downtime which ends just as our peak hours begin, the American's start crying. Look back on all the American-time-based MMO's; Australian's were always left out until ToR. We finally got Aussie servers, free transfers to them & now a downtime which will hardly affect us. Just suck it up, we've had to deal with all of these problems in the past,

Oh, and I believe 250 people on the Republic fleet alone at 7pm in the evening is proof enough that us Aussies are a much larger gaming base than anyone cares to realise.

seriously why cry about it? its not going to change,so dont waste your time.

We in North America just assume you Aussies are fending off hordes of mutant bikers till at least 6:00 PM.

Nah, we're home by 5. Beer'o'clock.

I think this is the first time I logged on with a 10PM maint last night (West Coast USA) and I was really super annoyed cuz I just logged in. I can only imagine how annoying that is for the rest of the world. I think BW mentioned they did this maint at the special time due to some European holiday. The usual midnight maint does suck sometimes but I should be sleeping by then anyway

If they can't stagger servers for downtime, maybe they can rotate the maint somehow so it doesn't constantly suck for people.

At times, I can deal with it, BUT I do agree, it is the only mmo that I have played that patched during play time..most either did it at 2am (PST) or 4am(PST).. Im sure the real reason is its when the janitor goes home...."HEY CHUCK hit that red button when you leave for the night!"...
..But I have to leave early this week, so ill hit it 2 hours earlier......
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Some day they will change it to a "Normal" time, once they piss off the west coast..because as we all know west coasters dont game at night.....
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I'm and East Coast player who's PRIME play time is affected by the weekly maintenance (I don't work 9-5). Guess what, it's really not a big deal. On those morning I just don't play star wars. People will QQ about anything.