Just picked up word from The Black Scorpion that The Sims 3 Store will be undergoing scheduled maintenance at 11PM tonight for a number of hours.  If you check your Messages inbox at the Official Sims 3 Site, you should see the following note:

The Sims 3 Store will be undergoing scheduled maintenance tonight  for several hours starting at 11:00pm PDT. During this time, users will be unable to make purchases.

We thank you for your patience.

The Sims Web Team

We can only assume they are getting things ready for the release of Barnacle Bay.  While they haven’t announced a release date themselves, IGN was told we should expect it on or near September 23 (which is a Thursday, after all).  Will it come tomorrow?  It’s possible, we’ll just have to wait and see.