I remember when the US servers first went down, Euro's thought America would play on their servers, didn't happen. When they finally brought back US servers, was it 8 months later? 9? The playerbase had mostly moved on.
I hopped in the discord the first month the US servers went down, offered to pay, was ignored, hopped back in the server again, offered to pay again, was ignored.

You guys really gonna vote now on anything? lol shits dead , deal with it, maybe arma 4 will come out and we can start fresh, new people aren't coming (and staying) in arma 3 BR.

Lots of people still play very old games, servers are still up for a game i bought in 1997, the US servers for that game never went down, thus the userbase never left.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/352700/Subspace_Continuum/

Originally just called subspace, a good game that held the test of time, 2d space ship battles never get old. I wonder if that game would have such longevity if it was ruined by people who didn't care about America.