Look, if maintenance is prepping 30 minutes before actual servers go down for actual maintenance, why even allow me to launch the game??

Why am I, as a paying player, afforded the opportunity to waste my time typing in everything and pressing 'play', connecting to the title screen of the game, only to get the 'You've been logged out of the server' message when logging into my character??

Granted, this happened under the condition that I was currently logged into another world server, but still... The fact that this happens means it should just be capped from the launcher.

Stop allowing us to waste our time pressing 'Play' from the launcher, if logging into the game won't be possible anyway. I'd rather just get that information from the launcher and have the launcher close until the maintenance has concluded.