I agree that it's weird, but the chat system in this game is not intuitive (speaking from a new player's perspective). The need/greed thing is MMO 101. If people start needing things they can't use, I'll just leave the group and re-queue, and explain why I'm doing so. I figure if more people do that, the ninjas will…
So the servers are down for maintenance? It's not just me? I knew they were going to be down this morning, but I thought they were supposed to done by now and there is no message in the launcher (but then, there are no messages at all in my launcher)