korp, you seem to be under the impression that every ghetto wants to be #1. That simply isn't true. A lot of people just want to play with like minded people they can have fun with, because they already know they will never get #1 and are 100% ok with it. This "everybody will just leave the ghettoes and go to the top kd's" argument has been proven over and over to be bogus. The people who leave ghettoes now were the ones who left them before as well. The difference is that before, if they didn't have any contacts, they defected around a bit and then quit the game. Now they at least have a chance (via recruitment forum/channels) to get into a kd that suits them.

A lot of people are fine with playing in crappy kd's, because they're not willing to invest the time to get better themselves. So instead they trade in a couple of friends (rl or internet) and just have some casual fun instead.

Again, Mehul's line + improved cheating detection => dead game