It took too many hits because EA/Bioware did absolutely nothing for 8 months.
Unlike the US/EU that got smashed and had to consolidate, the APAC servers had to take hit after hit after hit as EA/Bioware made every dopey decision under the sun and we still had players....
And while we waited for 8 months 100s of people stopped playing until today when EA/BIOWARE realised "DEEEERRPPP THERES NOT ENOUGH PEOPLEZ TO MERGE NOWS!"