The way I see it, if they could afford to have Mateus as empty as it was for as long as it was, they could afford a few new worlds to alleviate this problem. Yeah, sure, it's mostly just expansion hype, might probably die down. But it remains a pretty shit business decision to put out a new expansion that a large player base won't even be able to access. "Try getting in on dead hours" is bad advice for the new player that could just as easily decide to play another game instead.