I have suspected something like this is going on for a while now. Maybe a little pressure needs to be put on EA for them to look into it and stop it. (Edit) Who am I kidding, they ain’t gonna do . lol
You could use battlelog coupled with the betterbattlelog browser plugin and the true player count plugin
http://prntscr.com/hq57od
copy this link into the empty text box and hit enter. https://getbblog.com/plugins/user/160260.js
servers will show a second playercount like this http://prntscr.com/hq58pq
Thank you so much. For me it worked, for many but not all servers. BBL stopped development but it can still be downloaded. For Chrome users easy in the Chrome Plugin store and for Firefox users (me) this post has zhe link in it: https://github.com/brainfoolong/better-battlelog/raw/master/versions/4.9.2/bblog-signed.xpi
Have a nice Day, keep shootin
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