I'm wondering if the OP came from another MMO, where they routinely shut down servers for maintenance?
GW's streaming update system means that they could move the entire game to another server, and you wouldn't even notice the difference, because it can be done while people are playing. Even if the servers were to become old or outdated, moving to a new server -SHOULD- mean no downtime, and unless we were told about it, we shouldn't even notice (at least, in theory. The best paid plans of mice and men...)
And GW will probably continue running for as long as ANet stays around. Even if they stop making GW eventually and move on to something else (GW2, for example,) they will more than likely keep the GW servers running to accomodate those who wish to play.
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