I, for one, think maintenances should not be this frequent and always during the peak gaming time of the same time-zone. Arena.net has, since GW1, provided constant service with little to no interruption for both the first and second game of the series. While they are being published by NCsoft, Arena.net is a fairly small company when compared to SquareEnix which should be working really hard right now to make this release as smooth as possible. (And we all know that the release has been so far extremely rocky and poorly prepared.)

Some may say that expecting no maintenance makes me a "spoiled" bastard or that I should play GW2 instead of whining here. But facts are facts, if a company can make servers run continuously, why can't Square do it? Or at least provide downtimes which do not affect each zone's peak hours?