You seem to have missed the point.
The entire purpose of this exercise was to reduce the number of regions available, so as to increase the player density in the remaining regions.
If we gave the players a fight they had any realistic hope of winning, that simply wouldn't have happened.
Remember, the alternative to this was never "do nothing." It was closing an entire continent, without any hope of fighting or changing it.
Anaris, you're telling a new player that they're wrong. You know, the people we're trying to attract. They're telling you this is driving people away, including them. You're getting feedback and ignoring it.
