FreeBSD did this too, right after I had just setup a local Minecraft server on an old Pentium D. It's a shame because it works perfectly for that purpose and now it'll just have to sit on FreeBSD 10 for the rest of it's life. I don't plan expose it to the outside world so that's OK for me, but surely 32-bit machines still have a purpose.
Blerg, sorry, I have no clue where I got mixed up on this. I think I got confused with Drangonfly because I was going to try that at shortly after I got FreeBSD set up just to compare. FreeBSD seems to be going strong with i386.