1: I believe WG did research already and realized west coast has most f2p player base on NA. 2: majority of people who lives middle and east NA will go play on EU. 3: new EU(NA) version will become like NA west few years ago, you will only have around 3000-4000 players online. 4: Crew 2.0 is coming too 5: there will be no SA anymore. WG decided to give up. 6: I live in West coast, I fucked up.