+rep. I totally agree. Good job. I liked the story and I too hope that
MA noticed and will take a few minutes to make up something next time (or at least just tell us that servers are being tested).
The pop-up in game is an interesting idea. This kind of news should be reported on the client loader but for those currently in-game it would be nice to have a news icon appear (where the information and question icon appears) that will allow the in-game users know about new news, especially if there is no advanced warning. In the mean time, a red broadcast message of "News updated on client loader" will suffice. No new coding and not a lot of manual effort. Just a thought.
Have fun,
NFG