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?

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™.

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.

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.

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™.