Yea, I think I posted right after you linked that. I thought leaving out part of the world was pretty ridiculous and had to post it. I have never heard of something as bad as this.
Apparantly another feature of the hotfix is to totally remove areas of the map letting paying players fall to their death and lose everything on them without warning.
http://www.mortalonline.com/forums/54982-hotfix-patch-1-3-0-5-another-test-f…