Quote Originally Posted by Ptolemy View Post
Should keep the servers live for those who don't make alpha/beta,then SE could just delay the "save" maintenance till a few weeks before 2.0 is ready to hit live if they do indeed give us a option to vote for bringing up the servers again after nov 1st, then it would be best to just delay the save maintenance till the finalized 2.0
They probably would have had this planned from the start if they were capable of doing it. It is probably a necessity that they take from Nov 1 to whenever 2.0 launches to make sure all character data has been transferred over.