Quote Originally Posted by aesteval View Post
These long maintenances usually go the entire time because the servers won't be available for play before the weekly reset of new content happens and where there will be a rush to acquire certain things (ie: new housing, mats for new recipes - there's a rush on the MB for old mats madely newly relevant the moment the patch comes up.) If they did trim time off of the maint schedule it would be the servers going down later rather than coming up early - but better to be safe on case something goes really wrong and have too much time than too little.
Many typos and no edit on phone. ^_^ But anyway, we don't know how long maint actually takes in these cases because the servers will not be allowed to be opened up early due to fairness with these sort of content updates.