Quote Originally Posted by Mijorious View Post
I'm annoyed because the announcement was confusing. My wife and I just started playing a short while ago and had a goal before maintenance. We were going to get all the requirements to get a home in-game. We busted our butts the last couple days because the last updated announcement was this:
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In order to reflect data of the North American data center expansion as well as to accompany Patch 4.57, we will be performing maintenance on all Worlds at the time below, during which FINAL FANTASY XIV will be unavailable.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause, and we thank you for your understanding.

[Date & Time]
Apr. 22, 2019 6:00 p.m. to Apr. 23, 2019 3:00 a.m. (PDT)
* Completion time is subject to change.

[Affected Worlds]
All Worlds
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The last thing we needed to do was get one more rank, which we planned on doing this morning before the servers go down at 6:00pm. So WHY did the servers go down at 3:00am this morning???? That was an OLD announcement! The newest one was above. Why did they start early?
They didn't start early. There are two separate maintenances going on which overlap.

The NA data center maintenance, which was announced as 3am Mon to 3am Tues PDT. SE had warned us well in advance that it was going to be a 24 hour maintenance.

The patch 4.57 maintenance for all worlds to implement World Visit, which is the time you listed. SE for whatever reason decided to have this maintenance at the same time as the NA data center maintenance (probably to minimize overall down time for the servers).

I'd absolutely agree that they should have been combined into a single announced instead of posting 2 separate announcements if that's your complaint. I spent a lot of time yesterday trying to remind players in my FC and linkshells about the extended maintenance for NA and some of them were confused just as you are.