UPDATED: Long Free Realms Maintenance is now finished.

Updated: Free Realms is back online and running.

Free Realms is currently down for Server Maintenance which will effect all SOE Games. The Free Realms Servers and all game servers are expected to be down for at least several hour. This Maintenance will not be bringing any game updates to Free Realms.

Be sure to register and join all your friends at FreeRealmsInsider.com for some fun while maintenance is going on! The official notice is attached below. The Servers are expected to come up at 12:00pm PST providing no issues come up.

As posted by Pex on the official SOE FR forums:

"We will be performing maintenance on the Session databases and Station Account services across all games on Wednesday, February 24, 2010. Maintenance will begin at 3:00 AM PST and is estimated to last until 12:00 PM PST. All game worlds will be unavailable for at least the first several hours of the estimated 9-hour maintenance. The Station Store and all commerce avenues will be unavailable for the entire duration of maintenance. This may also affect the performance of the forums and any or all accounts’ abilities to log in.

We apologize for any inconvenience and will resume the affected services as quickly as possible."

Updated: Free Realms is back online and running.

As posted by Pex on the official SOE FR forums:

We apologize for any inconvenience and will resume the affected services as quickly as possible."