well after being in the que 5 times from 2000 down to the front of the que, this time i just got told all realms are now in maintainenece.

So errr.... yeh thanks for that square.

I'm not actually sure why this company seems to be unable to roll out a patch without it crashing the servers for hours on end.

I get that crap can happen but surely you should be on constant standby for exactly that happening on patch days.