Thanx for your feedback guys.
I have checked the lobby at other times and the average seems to be around 1900 with totals of around half that figure at around 20.00 CET.
I think it's a pity though if as some of you have said, that many ppl play once and never again, or simply don't bother with MP at all. When I read about good sales figures, I often look forward to a nice full server every night. But that hasn't been happening now for quite a long time I regret to say. There are too many servers in fact and with an average of less than five players per server if they were to be distributed evenly, the level of enjoyment is diminished considerably IMHO.
In addition, the patches that enable some servers to host 50 players doesn't help either because ppl seem to be attracted to high capacity games. One full 50 player server infers two empty servers i.e. 50 minus 16 = 34. So while the 50 player game may prove to be an enjoyable experience, it also means other servers who may not have sufficient upstream capacity to host those type of games have to do without. That doesn't do the game any good in the long run.
