for the record turf takeover games are also half empty many hours of the day across all regions
i try to play in the afternoon european servers are half empty constantly
and american servers are empty because its like the middle of the night over there
games will usually start empty and slowly fill up on the 2nd or 3rd garden if you are lucky to have the game fill up at all.
and then plenty of people just leave as they dont like the game is already in the middle and usually unbalanced to one side
the next game people will leave before the next round will start and its a cycle
almost every time players do not want to be plants
and its actually hard to find full games many hours of the day
and people say the game is "just fine"
by this time many people should have been higher ranks
but 90% + of players i see are rank 200 and under
this also shows the game is not being played a lot
its been 3 months and 90%+ sub 200 rank
maybe not 200 but like 500 and under at best
half way into the blue rank plate