SWTOR Servers Down on a Friday Night- Plus Scheduled Maintenance Jan 31st 4u6s4o

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Players were shocked by unexpected downtime last night right in the middle of Friday night/ Saturday morning gameplay for SWTOR. The forums went down, too, meaning frustrated players couldn’t even go rage about why they were kicked off their servers and an explanation as to what had happened. 6e573k

A forum post explained it earlier in the day but few people caught it. Most of us were Official forums goes onto explain the scheduled maintenance:

Scheduled Maintenance
Date: Tuesday, January 31st, 2012
Time: 2AM CST (12AM PST/3AM EST/8AM GMT/9AM CET) until 10AM CST (8AM PST/11AM EST/4PM GMT/5PM CET)
All 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™.
Read more at SWTOR forums.
So what was the reason for this peak playtime shut down? The patch notes explain that it was to roll out a service restart to address players having issues with getting booted to the game-breaking bug for those who were affected so good for BioWare for being on the ball with a fix right away. It’s too bad those not affected by the bug still had to suffer with the downtime but alas, that’s how it goes sometimes!

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Lisa has been an avid gamer since she was old enough to hold her first controller and a game writer for more than a decade. A child of the Nintendo generation, she believes they just don’t make games like they used to but sometimes, they make them even better! While consoles will always be her first love, Lisa spends most of her gaming time on the PC these days- on MMOs and first-person shooters in particular.