a lot of players will play it, this is for sure. as I did say, it is not a bad game. nice maps and others, good game.
but I do not like that much such fast games, that's all I can say.
for the protocol, some very little stats about aa2:
05.07. 21.00 - 102 players, 16 of them on modded servers
06.07. 21.06 - 130/13
07.07. 20.52 - 175/3
08.08. 21.03 - 135/2
11.07. 21.15 - 126/0
12.07. 20.55 - 136/6
see you tonight 
Of course the number of players on modded servers is way down. They have be given no choice but to play standard weapon servers if they want to gain honor. We had one server that was full and on the top of the list almost all day every day when it was modded. Now that it has been changed to standard weapons only, it is only 2/3 as busy or full at most times. I am not wanting to start a debate about the subject but just saying people had a choice before as to whether play either way, mods or no mods and have their activity counted. If there was so many die hard standard weapon players out there why didn't they have a server and campaigning to keep it going? We tried both ways and the number of people spoke for themselves.