I know they are needed. I believe when I'm told that there are games out there that have it much worse - with even more frequent maintenances, or the lack of them which means the game suffers that much more.

But does it really have to be like this? It's basically a routine now (I don't even think "emergency" is still needed in the Lodestone post titles): maintenance to push the patch live, next day or the day after another maintenance because of whatever ~unforeseen~ issues. So much so they might as well call it planned, instead of emergency. And the sad thing is, this doesn't make it any less annoying.

I'm just really curious about what on earth goes wrong time after time, with pretty much every patch, so that it has to be like this.