It was expected, after the quite buggy main push yesterday. I expect even another maintenance tomorrmeow to bring back the C-store interactions (claiming ships etc).
You know it really takes the p**s always doing maintenance in UK/EU Prime Time, in the afternoon etc and now 17:30-19:00 when most people have time to play.
I scond that the late frequency of patches/maintenance outages is annoying, especially for European customers.
However, it should also be mentioned that the time they do this is in the morning of a normal working day for them. So if anything goes realy bad during the update/maintenance they have the complete working day to solve it. So for me, even living in Europe, the time is acceptable. Just the frequency they have those outages lately is by far suboptimal.
And to be fair, also their improved communication should be mentioned, they listed what they are working on already during the downtime. That's mutch better than the usual silence until it's done.