Quote Originally Posted by Jojoya View Post
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.
As I said it was confusing. I always thought that the newest announcement was the correct one. I guess it's not that way in other countries. I'm not the only one that was screwed up by this. The newest announcement was 6:00am, the old one was 3:00am. I, and others, thought it was an amendment.