I have a feeling this is being done on purpose so more people buy CoH2 in June, the timing tells you everything. MVGame
The timing was set by Ubisoft/Quazal for when they wanted us off their servers. We would have tried to move sooner but THQ wasn't interested in investing the money to make that happen, and had no money so it's kind of academic. We started the process shortly after the SEGA purchase.
Ideally we wouldn't be doing it at the same time we were finishing the sequel, and would have had this finished and locked away before the end of last year.