Will you sign a petition to get the servers on?

They won't be on because CCP will be discussing data obtained from the last weekend amongst themselves. They monitor the game and collect data, not relying solely on people to tell them bugs.

They wouldn't be able to do this if the servers were on all week - they'd have no time to discuss and analyse data. This data does help fixing balance issues.

Haha, if only. CCP is one of the only games companies who actively try to look out for their employees. You often hear of employees working for 100-120 hours a week to hit a deadline. Frankly, I'd prefer CCP take their time about analysing data and developing the game, so that we can have a decent relationship with our devs instead of them being half dead all the time.

The servers will be on based on the schedule laid out previously. These kinds of posts are the reason people are reluctant to give a little extra sometimes, because of the worry that people like you, and others on this thread, will assume it is always possible and demand it. Just chill out. Complaining about CCP following the rules that they set in the beginning is just ridiculous.

3 days to grab data, sort it all out, look at it, discuss it, look at possible changes, implement those changes. Really 3 days is not that long at all to do all that (depending how many staff are working on that part). I'd rather them take their time to get it the best it can be then to rush through it and have a below sub par game.

Two things. CCP aren't rolling out hotfixes for DUST, as they have to push the updates through the Sony servers to do so. That takes time on Sony's part to test, so it's much more sensible to push a new build through every couple of months.

Also, half an hour to grab data each downtime. On Monday, after the data is grabbed, they organise it into days, types, etc. Tuesday, they analyse it in teams, breaking the data down into anti-infantry, anti-vehicle, anti-building, etc. Wednesday, they get together and discuss it, suggesting any possibly changes, balance issues, etc.

Again, not saying that this is what happens, but a day for data analysis and a day for a meeting is reasonable. If you add an extra day to the testing time, it will take that much longer to do all of the analysis.

Edit: Also, the merc pack was made so that you can have extra stuff on release, not so you can have exclusive access to the beta. The access was a bonus. You can just play Slay every week and get a weekend beta key from that.

Excuse me, good Mr. OP.

But you have no idea what you are talking about. The truth is , you JUST WANNA PLAY D******** and don't care if there isa good reason to not play.

I mean, come on. You think CCP is just malevolently saying "Bwa haha. We could give them an extra day, BUT WE WON'T!!!! MUAH HA HA HA HA"

No... They have a legitamite reason. Patience my friend. Plus, playing 12+ hours a day isn't good for your health. View this as a nice breather.