Quote Originally Posted by Chocolys View Post
Why?. Unlike past maintenance they have not announced that the server won't come early than end of maintenance planned time, and "Please note that the duration is subject to change."
Because random opening times give advantage to the people that have no life outside gaming (or just use bots) and can afford to spend multiple hours constantly trying to log in time and time again.

If the maintenance ends at the specified time, everyone have the same, fair chance. Small, but "small" is always better than "none".