User blog comment:Edward Mctimbers/Maintenance - March 25th (Completed)/@comment-75.65.70.209-20130325235932/@comment-1140008-20130326002226

That would make sense, but removal of an entire island, much less a main one would hurt many quests in the game that require you to go there.

It would be way too much work to rework those quests to go to other islands. Too much work for them, anyway.