Countdown?

[Ghosty2k1]

Hi

I was just on PSO and this countdown came on with some weird writing next to and it disconnected me,why does this happen?
most of the ships in US and EU were gone after and nobody was online

[springheeledjock]

Because it is the 1st wednesday of the month - servers are down for maintenance as usual.

[Ragnarok857]

Yeah, that happened when I was on a US server. That's simply a server shutdown