According to a recent announcement, the servers and official*forums will be down starting late on October 11th and leading into the 12th.* It's said that the downtime will start at around 9 PM Pacific and last upwards of 15 hours.* It appears they are doing some*work on the power system*at the Sega of America offices.
Update: The maintenance did not occur as planned. When a new date is scheduled, we'll be sure to post the news.*
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