Take Battlebit Remastered as an example because that's a game I played to death when it came out and I sort of hop in the servers that are still active. I don't even necessarily think it's the bullshit chat moderation that has killed off the game's playerbase I think too many people potentially got scared away from all the negative review hack accusation spam that's going about the place and it's completely ridiculous. I maybe encountered one actual hacker in the wild and he ended up getting banned to the credit of the devs and this was on an official server. Recently had a game of battlebit and sure enough there was an actual retard accusing someone of hacking but he did get completely roasted by everybody in chat.

And you validated this how? I am going to be honest but your competency level last time is not enough for me to trust you to say nay or yay.

I think the chat stuff, is actually killing it since it's a damocles sword mainly hanging over the western world (presume their language tracking of e.g chinese is less )and since there is an agreement to get on the master list a server does not live or die by its own community, it dies by the devs mods hands and we know easy it is to trust faggots, haha thus creating less incentive to run a server.