Quote Originally Posted by Adire View Post
Never played a game with an upcoming expansion with this problem before, maybe it's just me.

Also, they're only doing the maintenance on NA servers. So I doubt this is correct.
Yeah, why would you do this world wide when you can use lower man power and separate it for each time zone through the up coming weeks, saving money, time and authenticity for the game? Why save money or player time when we can just shut all of it down for a good day... Or do piece by piece insuring everything is done correctly. Unless you have been a server admin, consultant, tester, repair, programming or variable x,y, data testing, there is more to a server then most "gamers" understand. NA wont be the only ones feeling this before the patch, also have to consider time, people, those who translate two very different languages, not only through word, but mathematically,