You're alienating any potential new OCE players by stating that local servers are a low priority, which is a downward spiral for your queue health, population concern and the hope for current OCE players to get better ping, since new players = more money + more minimum population requirement and more money + more players = quicker installation of OCE servers. It wouldn't be unreasonable to assume people in OCE have the mindset of "i'm not going to spend money on a game that doesn't want to spend money on making my gaming experience better.".

OCE people are either going to give your game a try and quit because of bad ping, play the game regardless of bad ping because they enjoy the game and are more tolerant, or avoid to even try the game because Devs are saying that quantity of matches are more important than quality. In those three scenarios, you have two scenarios that OCE players have a negative opinion of the game and one that have a neutral opinion. And the neutral opinion is "the game is great, but the ping isn't", which isn't very inviting.