I think one of the reasons AS wasn't very popular was because it wasn't very known, I would talk to people who had absolutely no idea that there was an Asia server, so if it does get brought back there should be global announcements on the server about it.
What this guy said, something that ticked me off was the fact that there were no announcements on AS being shut down, the fact that it was put into a 'trial' period in December '13 was on the bottom of a front page announcement, somewhere that not many people read up to.
It always felt as if AS was neglected in the first place, how would one learn that AS was a thing if there was little-to-no publicity about it. No upgrades were done ever. Map updates were done last. If not, second last. They were absolutely no moderators. The ones who did help became in-active because AS was an independent community. We didn't have many hackers because all the players were proactive about keeping the community clean. People thought AS of a win-farm area whereas, contrary to popular belief we were probably the hardest region to 'win-farm' in (maybe due to the giant teams/ flame-wars between clans, HUGE Japanese teams [they eventually fled to US], and last but not least, the abundance of competent players who knew what they were doing to some extent). The only moderator we did indeed have went elsewhere, to AU to be precise (I don't blame him, he didn't have anything to do on AS anyways, look where he is now, a Sr. Mod!)
As Rihanna said (Something along the lines of...) - Are you going to
just gonna stand there and watch me *us* burn?