It was more like a huge uproar. The community was so upset about it, that the CM had to open a new area, where everyone could ask Innogames directly, in order to ease the tension. If it´s going to do any good, that remains to be seen (since IG hasn´t answered on the questions set, yet).
However, there´s nothing that can be interpreted as a "success" there. There might have been a lot of registrations for the according world (W78). But anyone, who is reading the forum regular, knows that many of them have registered only because they want to strike those, who are willing to accept the new contents. A few told, that they´ll register only to see how it is and then delete their accounts. Others choose to try their luck there (without investing money in buyable advantages), because they were out of real alternatives. The only other world, that started at the same time, was set with rather difficult settings, which were interesting only for experienced players.
So, using the number of registrations as a proof of success wouldn´t work. By the way, when all that uproar started after the announcement, even the CM from the ch-servers had to log in and support his german comrade, who had to take all the blaming for IGs questionable decisions. Cole said, that he´ll try to keep the new changes away from the ch-servers as long as possible, but that he can´t decide against what is ordered from IG.
You see, I do know a thing or two about the situation.