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?

Thats just PC.

wow, def going to try BF4 again :) 

Between quarantine and the fact that BFV just got dropped by EA/DICE there's a lot of people currently going back to BF4, so yeah it's quite populated currently for a 7 yo game.

Servers still have fake number fairly often but this allows to populate the servers these days - people see the number and join, usually around the same time, and it gets filled quickly

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 :)

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