Off peak sucks even in Europe
Pretty sure the game is not dead and is still pulling huge numbers . But with the massively reduced XP gains from bots (which I do think is a good change even though the damage has been done and some people are level 300+ already ) it does mean that at times where the playerbase is lower than usual and bots make up the majority of the lobby gain XP is real slow.
Currently Im playing at 3 AM ( sure its late but that's just when some people have their free time ) and I find myself joining lobbies constantly finding that 40 of the 64 players are bots meaning I can play the game out for 15 minutes for a small amount of XP for the time played or go and find another lobby and hope that it has more players than bots.
I am not saying I want large amounts of XP back for killing bots but even in Europe there seems to be a lot of empty lobbies at certain times and maybe looking into having bots give more XP in gamemodes such as the main conquest/breakthrough matching where its intended to be players but there just aren't enough to fill lobbies. Or permanent double XP during those late hours to offset the reduced bot XP. I could also just be getting really unlucky with matchmaking at the moment , but personally I do not fancy leaving matches because there's just not enough players to find sessions where I will actually get xp.