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SWTOR Maintenance 16th October 2012

October 16, 2012 by

UPDATE: The server downtime ended up being on the 12-hour mark – there’s been no word from BioWare on why. Judging by the comments you posted below, there’s some bemusement at the time taken.

An eight hour maintenance this week, and to confuse things, our changeover to daylight saving means the quoted times from BioWare may be incorrect. From what we can see the local times for the maintenance are:

AEDT: 6pm-2am (not 5pm as quoted)

AWST: 3pm-11pm

NZDT: 8pm-4am

BioWare’s info:

Hello everyone, we wanted to let you know that we will be performing scheduled maintenance for eight hours on Tuesday, October 16th, 2012 from 2AM CDT (12AM PDT/3AM EDT/8AM BST/9AM CEST/5PM AEDT) until 10AM CDT (8AM PDT/11AM EDT/4PM BST/5PM CEST/1AM AEDT). All game servers and SWTOR.com will be offline during this period. This maintenance is expected to take no more than eight hours, but could be extended.

This weekly maintenance is done in order to make general improvements and to check performance of the game so that we can continue to provide a consistent, quality experience. Quite often (but not always) after a maintenance period there will be a patch to download. After the maintenance, please login via the launcher to download the latest patch. If your launcher was open during the maintenance, you must close and reopen it for a fresh login.

Please Note: maintenance has been extended two hours longer than our original post on Friday.

Scheduled Maintenance

Date: Tuesday, October 16th, 2012

Time: 2AM CDT (12AM PDT/3AM EDT/8AM BST/9AM CEST/5PM AEDT) until 10AM CDT (8AM PDT/11AM EDT/4PM BST/5PM CEST/1AM AEDT)

All game servers and SWTOR.com will be offline during this period. This maintenance is expected to take no more than eight hours.

Thank you for your patience as we maintain service for Star Wars™: The Old Republic™.

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SWTOR Server Maintenance 8th October

October 8, 2012 by

It’s a standard four-hour maintenance downtime this Tuesday evening, and possibly no patch incoming either which can be a good thing or bad thing depending on how you look at it.

Local time conversions, with the daylight savings conversions now we’re back in that timeframe:

AEDT: 6pm-9pm

AWST: 4pm-7pm

NZDT: 8pm-11pm

The official word in full from BioWare:

Hello everyone, we wanted to let you know that we will be performing scheduled maintenance for four hours on Tuesday, October 9th, 2012 from 2AM CDT (12AM PDT/3AM EDT/8AM BST/9AM CEST/5PM AEST) until 6AM CDT (4AM PDT/7AM EDT/12PM BST/1PM CEST/9PM AEST). All game servers will be offline during this period. This maintenance is expected to take no more than four hours, but could be extended.

This maintenance is done in order to make general improvements and to check performance of the game so that we can continue to provide a consistent, quality experience. Quite often (but not always) after a maintenance period there will be a patch to download. After the maintenance, please login via the launcher to download the latest patch. If your launcher was open during the maintenance, you must close and reopen it for a fresh login.

Scheduled Maintenance

Date: Tuesday, October 9th, 2012

Time: 2AM CDT (12AM PDT/3AM EDT/8AM BST/9AM CEST/5PM AEST) until 6AM CDT (4AM PDT/7AM EDT/12PM BST/1PM CEST/9PM AEST)

All game servers will be offline during this period. This maintenance is expected to take no more than four hours.

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SWTOR: Patch On The Fly

October 2, 2012 by

Here’s an interesting development – a new patch is coming for SWTOR (likely to be 1.4.1) overnight, but the servers won’t need to come down.

So at 2am AEST (Midnight AWST and 4am NZST) you just need to log out and restart, download the patch and you’re good to go.

We’ll have the full patch  notes for you of course.

Here’s the blurb from BioWare:

Hello everyone, we wanted to let you know that we will be deploying a patch on Tuesday, October 2nd, 2012 at 10AM CDT (8AM PDT/11AM EDT/4 PM BST/5PM CEST/1AM AEST). All game servers will remain online during this period. Please be sure to restart your game launcher at 11AM CDT (9AM PDT/12PM EDT/5 PM BST/6PM CEST/2AM AEST) in order to download the deployed patch. If your launcher was open during the deployment, you must close and reopen it for a fresh login. Patch notes will be made available shortly after deployment.

Patch Deployment

Date: Tuesday, October 2nd, 2012

Time: 10AM CDT (8AM PDT/11AM EDT/4 PM BST/5PM CEST/1AM AEST)

All game servers will remain online during this period. Please be sure to restart your game launcher at 11AM CDT (9AM PDT/12PM EDT/5 PM BST/6PM CEST/2AM AEST) in order to download the deployed patch.

Thank you for your patience as we maintain service for Star Wars™: The Old Republic™.

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SWTOR Server Maintenance 18th September 2012 (Updated)

September 17, 2012 by

UPDATE: BioWare have tweeted that the maintenance has been extended, with no ETA at this stage for when servers will be up.

It’s a long downtime this Tuesday night: 8 hours. It could be 1.4 dropping though it seems a little early for that. Either way you won’t be having any quality SWTOR time this Tuesday.

Here are the time conversions:

AEST: 5pm-1am
AWST: 3pm-11pm
NZST: 7pm-3am

And now for the official blurb from BioWare:

 

Hello everyone, we wanted to let you know that we will be performing scheduled maintenance for eight hours on Tuesday, September 18th, 2012 from 2AM CDT (12AM PDT/3AM EDT/8AM BST/9AM CEST/5PM AEST) until 10AM CDT (8AM PDT/11AM EDT/4PM BST/5PM CEST/1AM AEST). All game servers and SWTOR.com will be offline during this period. This maintenance is expected to take no more than eight hours, but could be extended.

This weekly maintenance is done in order to make general improvements and to check performance of the game so that we can continue to provide a consistent, quality experience. Quite often (but not always) after a maintenance period there will be a patch to download. After the maintenance, please login via the launcher to download the latest patch. If your launcher was open during the maintenance, you must close and reopen it for a fresh login.
Scheduled Maintenance

Date: Tuesday, September 18th, 2012

Time: 2AM CDT (12AM PDT/3AM EDT/8AM BST/9AM CEST/5PM AEST) until 10AM CDT (8AM PDT/11AM EDT/4PM BST/5PM CEST/1AM AEST)

All game servers and SWTOR.com will be offline during this period. This maintenance is expected to take no more than eight hours.

Thank you for your patience as we maintain service for Star Wars™: The Old Republic™.

Over to you: are you putting money on 1.4 dropping?

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SWTOR Server Downtime September 11 2012

September 11, 2012 by

A three-hour maintenance is the plan this week, here’s hoping it doesn’t extend as long as last week’s.

Time conversions for you:

AEST: 5pm-8pm
AWST: 3pm-6pm
NZST: 7pm-10pm

The full details from BioWare:

Scheduled Maintenance: September 11th, 2012 | 09.08.2012, 03:41 PM

Hello everyone, we wanted to let you know that we will be performing scheduled maintenance for three hours on Tuesday, September 11th, 2012 from 2AM CDT (12AM PDT/3AM EDT/8AM BST/9AM CEST/5PM AEST) until 5AM CDT (3AM PDT/6AM EDT/11AM BST/12PM CEST/8PM AEST). All game servers will be offline during this period. This maintenance is expected to take no more than three hours, but could be extended.

This maintenance is done in order to make general improvements and to check performance of the game so that we can continue to provide a consistent, quality experience. Quite often (but not always) after a maintenance period there will be a patch to download. After the maintenance, please login via the launcher to download the latest patch. If your launcher was open during the maintenance, you must close and reopen it for a fresh login.

Scheduled Maintenance

Date: Tuesday, September 11th, 2012

Time: 2AM CDT (12AM PDT/3AM EDT/8AM BST/9AM CEST/5PM AEST) until 5AM CDT (3AM PDT/6AM EDT/11AM BST/12PM CEST/8PM AEST

All game servers will be offline during this period. This maintenance is expected to take no more than three hours.

Thank you for your patience as we maintain service for Star Wars™: The Old Republic™.
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SWTOR: Maintenance Changed to Wednesday 5th Sept

September 2, 2012 by

After a week off maintenance, it’s back this week with a four-hour downtime on a different day. Due to the US Labor Day holiday, they’ve bumped the downtime back 24 hours to Wednesday evening. There’ll be a patch to download afterwards and we’ll post the patch notes once we have them.

Here’s the time conversions:

AEST: 5pm-9pm
AWST: 3pm-7pm
NZST: 7pm-11pm

The full details from BioWare:

Hi everyone,

We wanted to inform you all that due to the Labor Day holiday on Monday, September 3rd, 2012, we will be moving next week’s scheduled maintenance to Wednesday, September 5th, 2012.

We will be performing scheduled maintenance for four hours on Wednesday, September 5th, 2012 from 2AM CDT (12AM PDT/3AM EDT/8AM BST/9AM CEST/5PM AEST) until 6AM CDT (4AM PDT/7AM EDT/12PM BST/1PM CEST/9PM AEST). All game servers and SWTOR.com will be offline during this period. This maintenance is expected to take no more than four hours, but could be extended.

This maintenance is done in order to make general improvements and to check performance of the game so that we can continue to provide a consistent, quality experience. Quite often (but not always) after a maintenance period there will be a patch to download. After the maintenance, please login via the launcher to download the latest patch. If your launcher was open during the maintenance, you must close and reopen it for a fresh login.

Scheduled Maintenance

Date: Wednesday, September 5th, 2012

Time: 2AM CDT (12AM PDT/3AM EDT/8AM BST/9AM CEST/5PM AEST) until 6AM CDT (4AM PDT/7AM EDT/12PM BST/1PM CEST/9PM AEST)

All game servers and SWTOR.com will be offline during this period. This maintenance is expected to take no more than four hours.

Thank you for your patience as we maintain service for Star Wars™: The Old Republic™.

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SWTOR: No Maintenance Tonight

August 28, 2012 by

In case you hadn’t heard, there’s no server downtime this Tuesday night.

Enjoy the extra play time – or show how truly dedicated you are to a loved one by still spending time with them anyway.

Or not.

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SWTOR Server Downtime: August 21st 2012

August 21, 2012 by

A standard four hour maintenance downtime for SWTOR tonight. If you want something SWTOR-related to do while you’re waiting, don’t forget to check out the latest episode of our podcast!

The time conversions:

AEST: 5pm-9pm

AWST: 3pm-7pm

NZST: 7pm-11pm

Bioware’s blurb:

 

Hello everyone, we wanted to let you know that we will be performing scheduled maintenance for four hours on Tuesday, August 21st, 2012 from 2AM CDT (12AM PDT/3AM EDT/8AM BST/9AM CEST/5PM AEST) until 6AM CDT (4AM PDT/7AM EDT/12PM BST/1PM CEST/9PM AEST). All game servers will be offline during this period. This maintenance is expected to take no more than four hours, but could be extended.

This maintenance is done in order to make general improvements and to check performance of the game so that we can continue to provide a consistent, quality experience. Quite often (but not always) after a maintenance period there will be a patch to download. After the maintenance, please login via the launcher to download the latest patch. If your launcher was open during the maintenance, you must close and reopen it for a fresh login.

Scheduled Maintenance

Date: Tuesday, August 21st, 2012

Time: 2AM CDT (12AM PDT/3AM EDT/8AM BST/9AM CEST/5PM AEST) until 6AM CDT (4AM PDT/7AM EDT/12PM BST/1PM CEST/9PM AEST)

All game servers will be offline during this period. This maintenance is expected to take no more than four hours.

Thank you for your patience as we maintain service for Star Wars™: The Old Republic™.

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SWTOR: Server Downtime Tonight

August 16, 2012 by

We jinxed things on Monday saying that we’d maybe get through the week without a maintenance downtime. Given the issues with the world event some have had, I’m not surprised they’ve had to patch the game, which is what is happening for two hours this afternoon:

AEST: 5pm-7pm
AWST: 3pm-5pm
NZST: 7pm-9pm

At least it’s only two hours early in the evening. The full BioWare blurb:

We will be deploying a patch and performing an unscheduled maintenance this Thursday, August 16th, 2012. Patch notes will be made available shortly after the servers come back up.

The servers and SWTOR.com will be down for two hours on Thursday, August 16th, 2012 from 2AM CDT (12AM PDT/3AM EDT/8 AM BST/9AM CEST/5PM AEST) until 4AM CDT (2AM PDT/5AM EDT/10AM BST/11AM CEST/7PM AEST). All game servers will be offline during this period. This maintenance is expected to take no more than two hours, but could be extended.

After the maintenance, please login via the launcher to download the latest patch. If your launcher was open during the maintenance, you must close and reopen it for a fresh login.

Maintenance

Date: Thursday, August 16th, 2012

Time: 2AM CDT (12AM PDT/3AM EDT/8 AM BST/9AM CEST/5PM AEST) until 4AM CDT (2AM PDT/5AM EDT/10AM BST/11AM CEST/7PM AEST)

All game servers and SWTOR.com will be offline during this period. This game maintenance is expected to take no more than two hours.

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SWTOR: No Maintenance Tonight

August 14, 2012 by

Good news – with the two maintenance downtimes last week, BioWare have decided to go without one tonight. It could happen later in the week but at this stage it looks like it could be a maintenance free week.

So no excuse to not play some SWTOR this evening – or at least watch the video on the upcoming world event.

If you’re feeling really kind, we’re still seeking the feedback of our podcast listeners – please take 2 minutes if you can to let us know what you think!

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SWTOR: Unexpected Maintenance Tonight (Updated)

August 9, 2012 by

UPDATE: most servers are back up and SWTOR Patch 1.3.5a consists of one thing, being the expected fix to EC:

1.3.5a Patch Notes
08/09/2012

Flashpoints and Operations
Operations

    Explosive Conflict

    • The Minefield Probe Droids are now able to be revealed during the encounter with Colonel Vorgath.

 

An unexpected maintenance is hitting tonight:

AEST 5pm-7pm

AWST: 3pm-5pm

NZST: 7pm-9m

At least it’s only two hours and there will be a patch (we’ll post the patch notes once available)

 

The full blurb from BioWare:

We will be deploying a patch and performing an unscheduled maintenance this Thursday, August 9th, 2012. Patch notes will be made available shortly after the servers come back up.
The servers and SWTOR.com will be down for two hours on Thursday, August 9th, 2012 from 2AM CDT (12AM PDT/3AM EDT/8 AM BST/9AM CEST/5PM AEST) until 4AM CDT (2AM PDT/5AM EDT/10AM BST/11AM CEST/7PM AEST). All game servers will be offline during this period. This maintenance is expected to take no more than two hours, but could be extended.

After the maintenance, please login via the launcher to download the latest patch. If your launcher was open during the maintenance, you must close and reopen it for a fresh login.

Maintenance

Date: Thursday, August 9th, 2012

Time: 2AM CDT (12AM PDT/3AM EDT/8 AM BST/9AM CEST/5PM AEST) until 4AM CDT (2AM PDT/5AM EDT/10AM BST/11AM CEST/7PM AEST)

All game servers and SWTOR.com will be offline during this period. This game maintenance is expected to take no more than two hours.

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SWTOR Maintenance: August 7th 2012

August 5, 2012 by

A bit of  a longer server downtime this Tuesday night, coming in at 6 hours. The time conversions for you:

AEST: 5pm-11pm

AWST: 3pm-pm

NZST: 7pm-1am

The full info from BioWare:

Hello everyone, we wanted to let you know that we will be performing scheduled maintenance for six hours on Tuesday, August 7th, 2012 from 2AM CDT (12AM PDT/3AM EDT/8 AM BST/9AM CEST/5PM AEST) until 8AM CDT (6AM PDT/9AM EDT/2PM BST/3PM CEST/11PM AEST). All game servers and SWTOR.com will be offline during this period. This maintenance is expected to take no more than six hours, but could be extended.

This weekly maintenance is done in order to make general improvements and to check performance of the game so that we can continue to provide a consistent, quality experience. Quite often (but not always) after a maintenance period there will be a patch to download. After the maintenance, please login via the launcher to download the latest patch. If your launcher was open during the maintenance, you must close and reopen it for a fresh login.

Scheduled Maintenance

Date: August 7th, 2012

Time: 2AM CDT (12AM PDT/3AM EDT/8 AM BST/9AM CEST/5PM AEST) until 8AM CDT (6AM PDT/9AM EDT/2PM BST/3PM CEST/11PM AEST)

All game servers and SWTOR.com will be offline during this period. This maintenance is expected to take no more than six hours.

Thank you for your patience as we maintain service for Star Wars™: The Old Republic™.

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