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I agree and disagree here. As a person that has had a variety of schedule changes and late night or early morning playing sessions get interrupted by the maintenance, I can say that it is very annoying. But it is scheduled. I can anticipate the servers being shut down around 9am and I check periodically to see when they are back up.
Yes, this is an annoyance, especially for people that have this time set up for their daily game sessions.
But I would rather have that schedules downtime and have it fixed and maintained than have them do emergency maintenance on the server at 9:30 or 10pm on a Friday or Saturday. Which is exactly what happened to people on Protector last week.
And saying that 9am to 11am isn't their deadest time may not be completely true. When would you like them to do it? I have had a majority of my supergroup online and doing PvP or missions until 6 am here and there are still quite a few people playing. I have stayed on doing a Respec until the kicked us from the servers some mornings.
I understand the frustration of people not being able to get on the game when it is most convienent to them, and right now the hours of 9 am to 11 am are the most convienent for me to play as well.
The staggering of server downtime would possibly fix this complaint. If the east coast server went down at a different time than the west coast servers, at least you could have a server up to play on, but this may impede Cryptic from performing the tasks necessary, or doubling the amount of work and resources they need to allocate to it, which people will then complain about Cryptic not making new content of not offering Power customization.
And it is not like this happens all the time where the servers are down for hours at a time for days in a row. Only occasionally.
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Firstly:Nice post man
Secondly:I'm a noob so this is my first post
Thirdly:NOT EVERY COH PLAYER LIVES IN AMERICA.
To begin I had major problems installing and patching this game.Took me 2 days to get it up and running but that's a different story.To keep on topic with the quote yes I'm a nOOb.I live in New Zealand and friggin love this game so far but to have server downtime at, what for us is prime time (10pm-3am+) is a friggin joke for a game WHICH DEMANDS SUBSCRIPTION COSTS.
So I pay for a game which is down 3 times a week when I want to play?
HELL NO.
To be frank this is a joke for players outside of America.I play a lot of MMO and this has never...NEVER...been an issue.Most patch and do there service on the fly.Not even noticed.
Honestly get a clue COH employees and sort it out or your 150,000 subs, which is crap given the current state of the MMO market, will shrink as you are no doubt well aware.
Many people like me love your game.....LOVE IT....but to log in to only be told we have to sign off (2 hours my [censored].Normally it's 3-4) is complete garbage when other FREE and vastly more popular MMO's don't have anywhere near similar issues or constant downtime.
You do it on a Friday.ARE YOU COMPLETE MORONS?
Don't get me wrong.I love the game and you have answered many of my MMO dreams but I will not pay to play a game which I can never play when I want to.
I'm a gamer...not an idiot.
Cheers.
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well ther is the option if you dont like the dowentimes that you can play the EU version of the game... it have dowentime mroe fitting for EU players i my self live in denmark and have playede this game since launce and i got no problems whit the dowentime userlay it is from arunde 15.00 in the after noon to arunde 18.00 ( thats 3 pm to 6 pm) and it dont bother me at all i just make my day fit arunde it or go play an ohter game the houer or two the server is dowen
Jack
PS
Sorry for spelling errors i am word blind
and dont bother about the 1% ther this is sucks coss it dont relly love this game and the devs are yber!