New to the game, is maintenance always this bad?Follow

I am in europe, so i was only able to play till 12 and its now nearly 10:30 at night and they are still doing maintenance. Is it always this bad? If so i think i may be leaving because it is a bit bad because i just wanna play, and only just getting it yesterday night and only been playing to play for a maximum of 2 hours since i got the game, really not showing me a good examble of the game : (

So is it always this bad?

Not poor, it happens.

And quite infrequently too. It's not like this happens every week, or even every month.

Just bad luck, that's all.

Seriously, this is not normal. Part of what's going on is patching in LoN Beta, and some major maintenance across ALL SOE platforms.

Usually downtime's an hour or so maybe once a week, if that, and an hour or two on Update day..

Hear here, and well said.
They just added the LoN database to all servers. AND added the front end to manage it. Just your unlucky timing.

Being another EU player, I have learnt to go getting some RL XP on update days. These are few and far between though and you really just have bad timing. Most GU's are done in a reasonable time, but every once in a while they put some major content into the game that makes the update that bit longer. It's a shame that they update the EU servers to a US schedule, but at least SOE are maintaining and updating the game.