Dethdlr Ashlanne has posted this over on Station.com:
Beginning at 12am PST on Tuesday, January 11th, ALL SOE games, subscription and commerce services will be unavailable for maintenance. We expect this maintenance to take approximately ten hours.
This might cause some forum accounts to temporarily lose permissions, due to the inability to verify account status while the maintenance is taking place. This is only temporary and normal permissions will return automatically once the maintenance is complete.
We apologize for this interruption and will resume the affected services as soon as the maintenance is completed.
I suspect this has something to do with DC Universe Online which launches worldwide on 1-11-11 but that’s just a guess on my part.
Update: News of this downtime has now been posted on Everquest2.com with conflicting estimates of how long things will be down:
Beginning at 12:00 AM PST on Tuesday, January 11, 2011, Session, SOE Accounts and Commerce, and the Station Store will be unavailable due to maintenance. We expect this maintenance to take approximately 4 hours. The total maintenance period will last approximately 7 hours.
During this time, our Session servers will be interrupted, which will prevent character log-ins for a period of up to two hours, beginning at 12:00 AM.
Players may also be prevented from making account purchases as well as purchases through the Station Store and their in-game stores, if applicable, from around 1:00 AM until 4:00 AM.
In addition, this might cause some forum accounts to temporarily lose forum permissions, due to the inability to verify account status while the maintenance is taking place. This is only temporary and normal permissions will return automatically once the maintenance is complete.
Downtimes listed are best estimates and are subject to change. We apologize for this interruption and will resume all affected services as soon as the maintenance is completed.
Which downtime announcement is closer to the truth? Guess we’ll have to wait and see.
I would assume that you’ve got it right about this downtime wasnt there something similar when free realms went live?
Looks like I’ll be more productive in the home office tomorrow at least.
It happen Monday at 10:00pm not midnight tuesday
@yoggie: Yeah, they adjusted it yet again last night. Always wonderful when scheduled downtime is determined by a random number generator. 🙂
@Dethdlr: Wish it was the same as the RNG they use for loot. I would never have downtime.
@steve
unless you are a monk. then you’d have downtime coming out of your ears.
Eq2 is polishing the brass on the Titanic. It’s all going down, man.