martin_riggs17

Yeah, it's just posturing. Honestly not being able to see the playercount would be better fitting for this kind of gameplay and I would fully support that being implemented. Smaller servers could gain new members much easier without the pressures of 3/40 hell.

I don't think that OP was being as innocent as he's trying to seem, but besides that, PC servers constantly fake their player counts. It's a very common issue, and if you look at the PC community tab you'll see dozens of servers fully loaded up with 255 players, with 125 more in queue, or something more outlandish like 255 ingame with 214748 in queue, which is entirely impossible in normal circumstances without faking it. I would assume those kinds of servers do that to be at the top of the player count list, giving them more publicity, but those kinds of servers usually aren't of very high quality.