Patching on a weekend..Friday, Saturday, or Sunday should only be done if there is an emergency fix in a situation where the game would go down if it is not done right then. Weekends is when most players have the main game time scheduled and it is redicoulous to do this for a non emergency patch...and the game ran fine before they took the servers down. In the industry any industry updates or big projects are NEVER done, or started on a friday ( if the powers to be have any smarts) and God forbid on a weekend without being forced too to this. All SOE is doing with this is to alienate players even more.
R'ron