Feldon Due to EQ1’s transition to Free-to-Play, a scheduled Account Services downtime has been announced. It should not affect gameplay/logins for existing characters/accounts.
UPDATE: The original announcement has been superseded with a new one including revised information indicating that game logins will be unavailable for the first six hours of the maintenance window.
Maintenance Notice: Thursday, March 15, 2012
Important: In preparation for EverQuest’s transition to free-to-play, we will perform maintenance beginning at 12:01 AM Pacific* on March 15, 2012. This will impact the following services:
- Voice Chat will be unavailable for EverQuest II Players from 7:00 AM to approximately 9:00 AM Pacific*
- Account management will be unavailable starting at 12:01 AM to approximately 9:00 AM Pacific*
- Commerce transactions, including purchases on our websites and in-game marketplaces will be unavailable between 12:01 AM to approximately 9:00 AM Pacific*
- Forums will be read-only starting from 12:01 AM to 6:00 AM Pacific*
- Login for ALL games will be affected from 12:01 AM to 6:00 AM Pacific* (players already logged in should not be impacted)
We apologize for this interruption and will resume all affected services as soon as the maintenance is completed.
Time Zone Conversions
- PDT: March 15 @ 12:01am~9:00am
- EDT: March 15 @ 3:01am~12:00pm
- GMT: March 15 @ 7:01~16:00
- CET: March 15 @ 8:01~17:00
Here is the original version of the announcement from the EQ2 Forums:
Maintenance Notice: Thursday, March 15, 2012
Important: In preparation for EverQuest’s transition to free-to-play, we will perform maintenance beginning at 12:01 AM Pacific* on March 15, 2012. This will impact the following services:
- Account management will be unavailable starting at 12:01 AM to approximately 9:00 AM Pacific*
- Commerce transactions, including purchases on our websites and in-game marketplaces will be unavailable between 12:01 AM to approximately 9:00 AM Pacific*
- Forums will remain open during the downtime however you may lose permissions and experience occasional disconnects
- Existing users will be able to log into games, but new account creation will not be possible.
We apologize for this interruption and will resume all affected services as soon as the maintenance is completed.
And yes, I have adjusted for America being on Daylight time. I think. Someone check my math. 😉
Starting times for GMT and CET seem to be correct, but the end times should be 16:00 and 17:00, the downtime is 9h not 11h. On that note thanks for adding european timezones in a proper time format 🙂
Your math looks good to me.
I’m glad that for this downtime we’ll still be able to log in to EQ2. The last few extended commerce/account services downtimes it’s been a complete lock-in, and I missed getting on before the last one. Heck, the one before that I went to change characters like I’m so used to and basically got an ‘oops, you shouldn’t have done that’ and was done for the day. I mean, it should be pretty obvious not to kill everything to do prep work for one game’s long downtime, but given the happy-fun-time I’ve had with SOE’s account management system in the past, this seems to be a positive step.
EverQuest’s transition to free-to-play, wow I know I’ve been working 7days a week 12+plus hour shifts…..but dam first I heard of eq1 f2p
X’ing my fingers for some Triple Station Cash when it’s all said and done. Would like to get a year of EQ1.
They updated the info, login will be affected and I’d guess altong as well:
http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/posts/list.m?topic_id=516061&post_id=5731793#5731793