I believe this was a best-of-intentions bad idea, but am willing to let the statistics do the talking. The MC server went up around the time of the spike above the # in week 32.
There isn't alot that can be gleaned from this data yet, except that maybe some of the people who are saying that they wouldn't be playing FL instead of MC anyways aren't really telling us the truth. It may be very early days and this will probably bounce back some (I really hope it does), but here is where it is at right now. The next week or two will show us the real trend.