Logins for all SOE games will be down for 24 hours.

UPDATE, 3pm PDT: EQ and EQ2 servers are confirmed up! However, expect to see a lot of "Login Rejected" while zoning, but you should be able to immediately log back in.

UPDATE, 3:25pm PDT: EQ2 EU servers are reported to be giving a "fatal error" when attempting to login.

NOTE: This information has changed multiple times since originally published. This is the official maintenance notice as of late Sunday evening:

SOE will be performing maintenance beginning at 00:01AM Pacific on April 23, 2012. This will impact the following services:

• Logins for all SOE games will be affected from 00:01 AM Pacific to approximately 23:59 PM Pacific.
• Commerce transactions, including purchases on our websites and in-game marketplaces will be unavailable between from 00:01 AM Pacific to approximately 23:59 PM Pacific.
• Account management will be unavailable starting 00:01 AM to approximately 23:59 PM Pacific.
• Forums will be read-only starting at 00:01 AM to approximately 23:59 PM Pacific.
• All Games will be unavailable starting 12:01 AM to approximately 11:59 PM Pacific*

We apologize for this interruption and will resume all affected services as soon as the maintenance is completed.

Here's our handy Time Zone Converserion Tool to help you plan!

Source: SOE Forum Announcement

During the downtime you are welcome to join us in ZAM's IRC chat. Feldon of EQ2Wire also has set up a ZAM IRC java applet that you can use (will autojoin the #EQ2 channel).