They used to tell us months in advance, now we would have gotten maybe 2 weeks notice if they had not delayed it, i know the last world merge they gave us 2 months to prepare, this time they told us on march 3rd it would be on the 16th, also there was VERY little data regarding exactly what would be in the update and when it was scheduled to take place. Then when they postponed it they told us it was supposed to have been in april but they moved it to may. I saw a lot about "next major update" but not a lot on when it was. I think it is because of the change of FFXI staff, they don't like to give us a lot of advanced notice. I know the last major update they had job adjustments coming out just 3 days before the maintenance. Before that they would keep us in suspense for 3 mo or so giving out a tidbit here and there so we were ALL hyped up by the time it got here lol