Server Downtimes

Ever since the EU servers were moved to the US, we've had to suffer having our servers taken down for patch releases etc during the height of our prime time. It's NEVER the US servers which are scheduled in their prime time, always ours.

This is now getting extremely irritating, especially with the hotfix due today. I mean, seriously, 8pm to 10pm UK time? for a lot of people, that's their evening's play gone.

Now, I fully understand that patches have to happen, and that they need to be done during the devs working hours, but 8pm is about 12pm PST, so why can't the devs just patch in their morning instead? Seriously... if you need pre-patch tinkering time before taking down the servers, do that the day BEFORE, then do the publish first thing the next day, 8 or 9am local time. That equates to roughly 5-6pm UK time, right when people are getting home from work, or sitting down to their dinner. It's also about right for most EU folks dinner time, too.

At least then, you still have all the devs there, and NO ONE's prime time is ruined by the patches.

Having had to deal with 4 PM to 6 PM downtime for the past seven years, I sympathise with your plight. It's not a lot of fun.

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Originally Posted by Arcanaville Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.

Prime time on a Friday night is no fun, it is sometimes unavoidable, and if I weren't at work during this downtime I would be pretty upset.
I do feel for you all.

see you on the other side.

At least it'll give me a chance to catch up on my Dragon Age 2 playthrough, CoX has been taking all my time lately.

*yawn*

Sorry FFM but our Aussie brethren have been having their prime time gaming hours disrupted by server downtime for 7 years. Please remember that the game is played all around the world so it's always someones prime time hours. It just so happens that it's your turn now.

It's a slap in the european faces,... again. Yesterdays regular downtime was pasted, why not patching it there. I was never upset about the scheduled down times but this is crap.

^ Actually, yes.. It almost certainly WAS ready yesterday or they wouldn't have posted that they'd be patching today, as they wouldn't have known it would BE ready. These things have to be tested and passed by QA before released, you know.

So yeah, they COULD have done the patch first thing this morning, IMO. But they probably thought that might not be enough notice, so end up doing it in prime time. Genius.

I just want to say that the attitude of "It sucked for me, so now that it sucks for you I'm going to gloat." does nothing but breed even more unnecessary contempt over what is already an annoying situation. I've been dealing with mid-day patches since the game began. My very fist play session ended with me being forcibly disconnected from the server at 2 PM, no more than an hour after I first logged in.

I prefer to sympathise with these inconveniences, rather than mock and belittle them.

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Originally Posted by Arcanaville Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.

Someone will be inconvenienced in whichever timeframe they decide to bring down the servers. As someone who lives in the +8 GMT time zone, I've had to put up with server down times that take place from 7pm to 9pm or thereabouts (due to US daylight savings), all the years of playing this game.

Surely, a server downtime taking place during Europe's prime time once in a while isn't such a big deal when taken in perspective.

Umm, yeah. Servers were down last week during US prime time. You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake.