yeah, imo it'd be a stupid move... I can't say the servers are really full with ppl, if you hop around in a bunch of games you run into the same ppl pretty quick. but they do have an MASSIVE fanbase, and those ppl did NOT switch to BBC2 (most of em don't even have it). I got an friend from that, all he does is play this game like 20 hours a week, so yeah no lack of ppl...
but I agree, EA couldn't be move vague about the issue with this email...
and yeah this is the first of those rumors that SEEMED to be true...
(like 90% of my friend list playing this game believed in it...)
and I'm like just gonna try make it by 1 jan
