Peeps!
The problem here is that if we get 3 nights of maintenance, during our peak hours, this is almost half the week, well if you live in Aust and have a full time job like me anyway.. That's all, maintenance itself is required, hell I WANT them to fix the bugs!! Most of us "off-peak" players understand that, and don't normally have a problem with "Maintenance Day". You just deal with it..
But as the OP has stated.. Almost half a week of being unable to play is quite annoying for a game that requires recurring payments.
If only half the servers went down at a time, or something like that, this gripe would forever be over!