Actually earlier this year the actual player count was dropping a ton, but it's been picking back up lately (even without ***'s boost cause they shut down)
If you look here:
http://fgunz.net/page/statistics
you can see on the weekdays, the player count has been moving up a lot.
The static player account during the week was about 220 - 250 then on weekends 280
Now the past weeks I've been seeing 270+ for the most amount of people online, as you can see here;
http://puu.sh/kNzRX/44c721173f.png
If the player count keeps moving up I honestly think GunZ can probably die in about 4+ more years.
(FGunZ wise)
I do agree with this though;
a lot of my frends left me </3