The age old denial from the “server community”:
this game is not particularly successful in server play.

Since always, most players have played solo or coop.

Who can blame them ?

Playing is servers CE is a crappy deal. No matter how good is your PC, the server gameplay is worse performance even if the freaking server is running in your own home, in the same network, right beside your gaming PC.

Instead of making it better by freeing your client game from a lot of things, playing in servers actually diminishes the performance of the game.

But the overall number of players have been the same average since a long time.

And I lived in Asia, while the solo scene for this game is quite normal, playing in servers in Asia is a worse nightmare.

That is because there is one “lie” (ok, not lie, because anyone can see this, but it is not said clearly): GPortal, provider of Official servers and many private servers, do not serve the hardware where the server is claimed to be. They only have actual server infra in some parts of Europe and USA, the other locations are served by VPN redirection.

I know for a fact they dont have servers in Brazil, and they dont have servers in China. (and yes, I consider “there” China. Sue me).

I am not really to doubt they dont have server in many other locations one can say they offer “local” servers either.