Again maintenance during Aussie prime time

[Helli]

So will this be standard practice that maintenance will be during the start of Aussie prime time? Thanks a lot to all you whining americans that screwed us over in yet another game.
Every damn game we cop maintenance and can't play....
Just for once it would be nice if it wasn't us that gets the short end of the stick on everything.

We already pay more than anywhere else.
We already have worse latency than anywhere else.
And we get to lose our ability to play during our prime time.

So tell me how this is fair?

[Freyar]

It isn't, but it's got to be done when staff are available and preferably when concurrently connected users is at it's lowest. They have the numbers, we don't, but we can hypothesize from other games.

[AsHerO]

nice chick ugot there. Well dont worry, ur not the ony 1. i took 3days off fro work just to geek a little and now this crp happens. i feel you

[KraggyKor]

So will this be standard practice that maintenance will be during the start of Aussie prime time?

Probably.

As I have posted before, Aussies suffer because your government and ISPs make it not worth a company's while to set up a server farm locally: ask Blizzard, they wanted to set up a WOW farm, they really did, but had to walk about due to the onerous regulations and commercial demands made upon them.

[Helli]

Probably.

As I have posted before, Aussies suffer because your government and ISPs make it not worth a company's while to set up a server farm locally: ask Blizzard, they wanted to set up a WOW farm, they really did, but had to walk about due to the onerous regulations and commercial demands made upon them.

Already debunked this oft-repeated lie. As I posted in another thread where you spewed out this garbage:

This is very outdated and also not very factual information. In fact there is one ISP that has continuously invited Blizzard to open servers in Australia, with Blizzard totally ignoring them (Internode). Blizzard claimed that the biggest ISP here was the roadblock (Telstra) because their infrastructure went through a single fibre-optic line in San Diego (problem with this claim is that Optus, not Telstra own that line). This puts a large shadow over the accuracy of Blizzard's claims. Blizzard's other claim is it is not economically viable. And in fact later, Blizzard came out and said oh wait maybe it was Optus we were talking to, we don't recall.
(source: http://delimiter.com.au/2010/11/09/a...simon-hackett/ and subsequent linked articles)

There has been servers opened in Australia by quite a number of game companies: EA games have, LOL does, and I know there are others I can't think of off the top of my head.

So instead of just throwing out that same nonsensical piece of garbage every time Australia is mentioned, read for comprehension and understanding.
You may learn something.

[mrwuss]

Someone will always get the shaft. Personally I am happy it is not during my play time.

Thanks for taking one for the team.

[Ahielia]

Maintenance will always be during someone's prime time.
And so they do it when the least amount of players are being affected.

What would you have them do, never do maintenance on their servers, or do maintenance when a lot more players are going to play?

[Helli]

Maintenance will always be during someone's prime time.
And so they do it when the least amount of players are being affected.

What would you have them do, never do maintenance on their servers, or do maintenance when a lot more players are going to play?

Oh we couldn't have more people affected now could we (read americans). Heck that would hardly be fair to ruin their play experience. /sarcasm

[Altena]

Dude it's 2hrs long.. And it isn't even our peak time. 5-7pm? Most of us barely get off work before 5:30.. let alone get home and eat.

[FleshOpera]

...somebody doesn't like Americans lol