2.1 live?

knowing that today is a scheduled (up to) 24hr server maintenance.. it is 5:39pm EST, I logged in just for shits & giggles to see what's going on (if I could even log in) and was greeted with a 10mb 'launcher' update, and proceeded to log in screen, to which I entered my PW, and was greeted to a 2.1gb update which I'm currently downloading. Is this THE patch? is it live already? or are the servers all going to be down? what's going on with this?

You can download the patch but you cannot play yet.

lame! what time zone are they basing the release off of?

It says 12 midnight PST to 12 midnight PST