For such a large company, it’s unbelievable that they continue to completely destroy their servers every Tuesday for maintenance. This might have been normal practice all those years ago but technology has improved and deployment without downtime is a solved problem. Their complacency is astounding.
I actually buy games off Steam when possible because of this issue.
Most companies that have their own in house farms need to do maintenance on them.
They haven’t sold their soul to Amazon/Microsoft/Google just yet for 24/7 uptime in the cloud.