Yep, the hardware update isn't scheduled to be done until 2 PM EDT, so as of now there's still 5 or so minutes remaining-- and that's just an estimate, anyway; it will take as long as it takes.
it has been officially 10 hours of down time and only seconds past the posted ETA. It is now acceptable to begin complaining and demanding compensation now. As you were.
It should have just been stated as an all day thing. Having done smaller hardware replacements in my own job, there's no way 6 hours is enough time for a server this large. Perhaps if everything was configured in advance and the only thing left was a data transfer and cable swaps then MAYBE but that still requires everything else to be perfect. Complications do happen, quite frequently. Since PC-NA is the first group to be swapped there's just a plain expectation that there would be issues, and they will likely last a few days even once it is booted up.
The misplaced optimism when players go 'well, even if the server is not up there's still a few minutes left to the scheduled maintenance'... oh to have that innocence
I only I was not little [censored][censored] and moved on from this dying game and its extended mainenances
Would you prefer that this much-needed and long-overdue hardware upgrade not happen? If you've moved on from this game, then what does it matter to you whether there's a hardware upgrade going on or how long it's taking?