Pasted here from the announcements:
This weekend, from Friday, March 25 at 4pm PDT to Sunday, March 27 at 9pm PDT we will be hosting our Preview Event Grand Finale!
During the specified times there will be 2 energy elevators and frequent lottery prizes given out.
The servers will go down Sunday, March 27 at 9pm PDT and the Preview Event will come to a close and all characters will be deleted. Your accounts will be preserved.
Then, on April 1st, at 2pm PDT our wonderful little world will open it's doors once more to any player who had created a preview event account as a special 'Early Access Weekend.' If you're reading this now on our official forums, that's you!
Early Access players will have the whole weekend to get a head start before our official launch on April 4th.
Additionally, any player with a preview event account will also receive a special in-game gift that will be given to any character created on that account.
Preview event accounts are all accounts create before Sunday, March 27 9pm PDT.
Thank you again for making the Spiral Knights Preview Event such a success. Be sure to join us this weekend and tell your friends- the only way to get in on the Early Access Weekend and receive our in-game gift is to create an account before Sunday, March 27 9pm PDT!
Sunday, March 27 before 9pm PDT is also the last chance to buy energy with our bonus offer! Stock up now for launch!
Awesome!!!!!! Woohoo *FRIDAY* April 1st at 5pm EST APRIL FOOLS!!!!!!!!
**** Will the forums be closed when the game closes?