A good tip is to check Battlelog first and see details. There you will see if there are players inside server or not. 

I was thinking that the reason for more players what that dice dropped the support for BF5 last week. BF5 has been a joke. Lets hope BF6 is modern war and a good game :)

wow, def going to try BF4 again :) 

Havent played BF4 for a while but last time every server had fake player numbers. Are there really 7k players at this time? And is this PC or spread over all plattforms?