SWTOR Maintenance 16th October 2012

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™.