w8 has now closed. I'm proud to report that Bat Country maintained ownership of Bazooko Circus (and the naming rights to Bat County) right up to when the plug was pulled.
Wow! You hung on to the bitter end. I finally had to stop ages ago but man it was hard to ignore those awful "come back or we'll delete your character" emails.
I'd probably still be playing on one of the newer worlds if not for the horrible 2.0 upgrade, which was basically The West's version of SWG's CU. Ever since that happened I've pretty much been playing out of stubbornness.