WARNING: Server Shutdown!

[Akujin]

That mostly makes me worry that it may be a short live event that is easily missable... :C

Well, sadly they've already said this. When 2.0 was first being announced Yoshi-P said they would continue on a grand storyline to bring the current world to an end, while ushering in the new one, to tie it all together. But its going to be a once in a lifetime sort of event, just as the Goobbue was a once in a life time thing, either you got it while it was available or you miss it forever. So something is going to happen and it will have an expiration time on how long it will be available to us before they have to finally hit the kill switch and everything goes down.

[Endemerrin]

I believe in an interview it was said that A Realm Reborn is currently on schedule for a 2013 launch. It has also been mentioned that servers are shutting down soon - probably some time in September or early October. It's going to be much longer than a month of downtime with that in mind.

Seems like the servers could be down for quite some time. Three months, five months, maybe more.