No one stops you from going to play on USA server though you may struggle to find a game even more than you do here on RU
i think having multiple servers keeps the game alive.
We can agree to disagree on that though the two server did only one thing it split the community it 2 and that, just because 2 people cant grow up and ignore each other...
The result is, games take longer to fill on both side and that is the worst thing that could happen to war2 if hacking is bad well guess what an empty server is.
Most players that come play the game are taking on their free time to relax and have a few games if that time is spent waiting for a game half of the time or worse, no wonder why most of us get bored and start looking for other occupations this is what will ultimately kill the game and strip it from people that have a life...
So yeah toxicity is bad that is for sure, most adult people may still be able to deal with it, ignore or bypass it and avoid these people, but having to plan in advance when to connect just to try and have people to play with or wait for people to show up ugh pretty sure that is a good reason to quit why would you even waste your time like that...
What would have made more sense would have been to have a persistent squelch and more soft punishment like server wide squelch for people that are known to be toxic so that new player have them squelched by default. Things like that...
Think about it:
You ban that one guy you hate or do not like then maybe that one person you just banned hangs out with a bunch of other people who he behaves better with.
And maybe some of these other players behave a lot better with you and would be nice to have in your own games from time to time but because you just banned one person they actually could play with they will have less players to play with.
And when you are not here well they may show up and not be able to fill their games.
Before you know it they also will stop playing because they can do the math and now they don't feel like it is worth the wait.
This is how war2 will die, the only remaining players being people that clearly have a lot of time to waste or nothing better to do in their lives.