SOE posted this on their forums:
Important: We will perform maintenance beginning at 6:00 AM Pacific* on August 7, 2012. We expect this maintenance to take approximately 4 hours. This will impact the following services:
Login for all SOE games will be affected
Commerce transactions, including purchases on our websites and in-game marketplaces, will be unavailable
Forums will be read-only
Account management will be unavailable
We apologize for this interruption and will resume all affected services as soon as the maintenance is completed.
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