EA is slowly choking BF1 to death so they can prop up BF5 without spending any capital on server capacity. The game cant justify the expenditure on its own bc its bombed so badly.
Lol probably would be just us three. Unless… someone advertised the server in multiple forums like here and on Reddit and we set a date at least a month into the future. Someone could even message every player they play battlefield with on the playstation of the upcoming server seed date. i.e. everytime you play a game of conquest, you message all the players on the scoreboard. That way, you might be able to achieve a critical mass of players to keep a server going. But its gonna be a lot of work to let everyone know.