So we decided to fire up DayZ servers again, but found something somewhat appalling: Server list only shows Low, Medium, High population. For anyone attempting to grow a community, this is disastrous because people browsing servers never know if there are 0 or 15 people on a low population server, therefore it takes a much larger pool of people to grow a server's population; I assume at 20 on a 60 pop server, it finally goes to medium?
You see, hiding the # of players is pointless, as anyone who logs into a server can then shift-tab to overlay and see who is on the server at that moment anyhow. Hiding the population serves absolutely no purpose, other than discouraging people to rent servers.
Can you please do something about this? We just fired up 2 new servers, which are overpriced to begin with, and people can't even see that we actively have 8-12 people online during prime times, so folks figure the server is empty.
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