Why the brazilian servers were shutdown due to "low player count" even tho there were servers with a far lower player count?

[yuhha]

Since the brazilian servers closed, i was checking out the other skial servers.
The reason given for their closure was that they didn't had enough players, but
while looking through the server list on the stats site, i noticed there were a lot
of servers with a very low player count, some even with 0. I then decided to check
their stats and some of them were just due to the time, but some of them only
get an average of 8 players or less during their respective peak times, far less
than the brazilian servers, those being PAYLOAD AU and HIGHTOWER EU.
there are also servers with irregular playercounts, like TURBINE+ EU and
2FORT+ NY 1, which have an average of 13 players at peak, but on somedays
peak at 30+ players. Meanwhile, the 2FORT+ BR server would get an average of
16-22 players and peak at full server capacity basically everyday. To be fair, the
normal 2FORT BR was dead, but the 2FORT+ one was still very active.
In light of this, i ask why was the brazilian server closed instead of those ones,
despite all of them getting far less players than us, especially the first 2 i mentioned.

 

[Bottiger]

I already explained this to you.

The host was having packet loss every few days, bad enough to cause the entire server to disconnect. Just today they went down for 1 hour. This is bad for our reputation. We don't have this problem in any other region and we have tried >5 hosts in Brazil, basically every single one I could find.

When we buy a server, we don't buy 1 TF2 server at a time. We buy bigger servers that are able to run multiple TF2 servers. This is because you get way more CPU and better performance than buying it from someone that sells individual TF2 servers. We cut out the middleman.

Removing PAYLOAD AU and HIGHTOWER EU would be pointless. We still have a lot of players in these regions so we wouldn't be able to cancel the entire server, unlike BR.

I'm sorry but I would suggest that you move to our US and NY servers. The BR region does not have enough players anymore.