Tbh tho, at around midnight PDT yesterday and im sure similarly to other days, there is only like 1-3 full rooms of execution, maybe one-two in an NA server and one-two in an Asia or EUR server.
This isn’t close to the case when it comes to OBJ and SW.
There are way too many servers being unused right now, even if you keep 1 server up for each region it wouldn’t be fair to the others who have to play with higher ping or else you would still need multiple servers per server. Even then, these servers are saturated with high level’d/exe-savvy players.
Overall I think what they meant by this being better long run is that when the game comes out of beta they’d rather have just the main Dirty Bomb esque modes (Obj/sw) available and then afterwards it’d be better for Execution if it was re-released afterwards (no notice of this happening but its possible especially if our playerbase explodes after release), instead of it scaring people away with how sad it looks (low play time/servers)
It’s better to remove it now before more new players come in than later so they don’t have to witness the multiple empty servers and in the only filled servers, they will be matched against the players who actually have experience with Execution.
This is very reminiscent of our current ranked situation.
They will likely just lose almost every game while not knowing what’s going on and be alienated from the game, or the mode anyway; though there are many friendly players in Execution who are willing to teach the mode and the game in general, it isn’t really enough to justify keeping it at this point in time.
PS/TL:DR: I do enjoy Execution whenever I do play it and the sense of community and pace change it gives and would prefer it to still be here as well, but I can see that it’s really not good for new players coming in if we want what’s best for the game to grow right now.