he just smiled and gave me a vegemite sandwich

[nattus_rattus]

You! Yes you Mr Turbine, Mr "lets take down the game servers at a quiet time." What about us? Us poor Australian DDO players, with wives, children and businesses, who finally get to sit down at 9pm after kids are in bed, wife is happy and work is finished, only to find the servers are dropped for maintenance between 9pm and midnight AUSTRALIAN Eastern Standard Time. How about you schedule a maintenance that doesn't effect us at this time? Ok, so we might be 1% of the playing population, but surely we deserve it? We gave you Pine Gap! We recently agreed a training facility for US soldier in the Northern Territory! We gave the world vegemite! Crocodile Dundee! We let Oprah in! How about just once every 6 years or so you schedule downtime at 7am to 10am AUSTRALIAN Eastern Standard Time - that is 5pm to 9pm US Eastern Standard Time. That wouldnt bother too many of you, as long as you knew it was all in a good cause, for your wonderful dear antipodean friends.

Anyway, i'm off to install Diablo 3.

Nattus

PS. its pronounced Ozzie! not OSSIE
PPS. yes, kangaroos really do hop down the streets
PPPS. watch out for the Drop Bears

[Aurora1979]

You! Yes you Mr Turbine, Mr "lets take down the game servers at a quiet time." What about us? Us poor Australian DDO players, with wives, children and businesses, who finally get to sit down at 9pm after kids are in bed, wife is happy and work is finished, only to find the servers are dropped for maintenance between 9pm and midnight AUSTRALIAN Eastern Standard Time. How about you schedule a maintenance that doesn't effect us at this time? Ok, so we might be 1% of the playing population, but surely we deserve it? We gave you Pine Gap! We recently agreed a training facility for US soldier in the Northern Territory! We gave the world vegemite! Crocodile Dundee! We let Oprah in! How about just once every 6 years or so you schedule downtime at 7am to 10am AUSTRALIAN Eastern Standard Time - that is 5pm to 9pm US Eastern Standard Time. That wouldnt bother too many of you, as long as you knew it was all in a good cause, for your wonderful dear antipodean friends.

Anyway, i'm off to install Diablo 3.

Nattus

PS. its pronounced Ozzie! not OSSIE
PPS. yes, kangaroos really do hop down the streets
PPPS. watch our for the Drop Bears

Yea its annoying me now to be honest.

Its not that they put the down time in the middle of the day here (U.K) on a bank holiday.

Its that the put the downtime in the middle of the day, on a bank holiday AGAIN!

Every single bloody time. Smacks of incomptetence and ignorance. Refusing to listen to the people that spoke out l,ast bank holiday when they done the same thing.

[fn_Chopper]

It's time to take action!

- We need to rant on the forums
- Australians must make a stand against the US and positively claim that there's no way we can afford F22's
- Hire up a Chinese speaking PM. That'll change everything!
- Feed the drop bears, there's nothing more virulent than drop-bear saliva

Struth Crikey Mate! Ur on a cracker.

[v.p.]

/signed from Russians. ;-)

[nattus_rattus]

It's time to take action!

- We need to rant on the forums
- Australians must make a stand against the US and positively claim that there's no way we can afford F22's
- Hire up a Chinese speaking PM. That'll change everything!
- Feed the drop bears, there's nothing more virulent than drop-bear saliva

Struth Crikey Mate! Ur on a cracker.

Ranting on forums is what made this nation great! Everyone should do it more, you just don't see enough of that kind of thing these days. Why, I hadn't had a rant on a forum for at least 13 minutes and my blood sugar level began to rise and I developed scabies. Now, I am a picture of health!

[trog_star]

i think citrus fruit help with that
it's not ranting on forums that makes this country great, it's just plain old ranting

[knightal]

really....its all very technical.

[Jasongnc]

No need to accommodate you now that you're playing D3....

[FrancisP.Fancypants]

We gave the world vegemite!

Yeah, but let's stick with the positive for now.

[Hokiewa]

No need to accommodate you now that you're playing D3....

In all honesty, if he thinks the downtime in DDO is bad, D3 isn't going to help his situation

[nattus_rattus]

No need to accommodate you now that you're playing D3....

It was a hastily typed reaction. I'm wasting time here instead. Same result, less twitching.

[Loromir]

We let Oprah in!

The problem is...you didn't keep her!!!!

[Jatner]

You gave the world Jason Donovan (and no, Kylie doesn't balance it out)

[nattus_rattus]

i think citrus fruit help with that
it's not ranting on forums that makes this country great, it's just plain old ranting

It's inshrined in one of the nations favourite songs. With huge apology to Moving Pictures....

well theres a little boy waiting at the keyboard of his 12GB box
He's been waiting down there, waiting half the day
The login retries just won't stop
He gets "login failed", his gaming's curtailed
He tries DDO again and he says

what about me
It isn't fair
I've had enough and the servers aren't there
Can't you see
I want to play
but you just patch more than you need

[nattus_rattus]

The problem is...you didn't keep her!!!!

We got upset when she nearly killed Hugh Jackman and sent her back.

[nattus_rattus]

You gave the world Jason Donovan (and no, Kylie doesn't balance it out)

Hmm true. We did invent WiFi though, that must count for something?

[Memnir]

What happens when Aussies can't log in:
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[nattus_rattus]

What happens when Aussies can't log in:
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[5chinoble]

You gave the world Jason Donovan (and no, Kylie doesn't balance it out)

yes it most definately does....drools

[trog_star]

It's inshrined in one of the nations favourite songs. With huge apology to Moving Pictures....

well theres a little boy waiting at the keyboard of his 12GB box
He's been waiting down there, waiting half the day
The login retries just won't stop
He gets "login failed", his gaming's curtailed
He tries DDO again and he says

what about me
It isn't fair
I've had enough and the servers aren't there
Can't you see
I want to play
but you just patch more than you need

I don't believe it.
you did more damage to that song than Shannon Nol

i'd like to thank down time for the fact i don't have you in voice comms right now.......