They are doing much better from how many players they have. Collectively millions, whereas there are under 200 players on Metin2 SG right now.
Oh Roph...you make me laugh on this one. If SG population increased so would the number of GM's= problem solved.
Chris is only waiting for a population increase to hire more GMs as the team can already handle the server well at this moment.
SG has way more than 2k players that logon from time to time but like 200-300 are really active like you said.
Don't be hatin this server, it had 6k players active the first week of the server with 2 channels being FULL which was abolished by GF and I remember the GM's constantly banning hackers and scammers even at that time with so many players. Go look at the old posts and number of registered users is almost 150k.
SG is the best server to play all it takes for someone to quit Gayforge or US server is to try it!
I mean you should be honest... whats the point of playing on Gayforge or US servers Roph-...-? A private server is much better than these and YOU KNOW IT. 0$ money spent your awesome player vs 3k dollars spent and your shit due to corruption on GF/US.
And, at least in PRIVATE SERVERS you can achieve what you would otherwise achieve on US or GF in 3-4 years in 1 month...but remember, when your playing on these private, GF or US servers you should erase the "competition" factor due to corruption which gives players like me 90% of the fun in a MMORPG game. Seriously, if your aware of why you play any MMORPG you wouldn't pick US or GF servers perhaps even less corrupt private servers especially when there is a lot of money involved.
Personally, like many others I wouldn't be playing Metin in the first place if there was no fight between players on trying to achieve certain things *FAIRLY* (e.g, trying to make 9+ gear unlike private servers or trying to kill your arch-enemy *winks at Noob86) I am asking you: Would you want to bother trying to be the best poker player if cheaters are going to win at the end?
Lastly, I want to point out that on SG you can experience both fun and competition at constant rate. If you play continously like 30min-1hr per day you will have a good character in no time. In conclusion, if your playing Metin and you don't have fun while improving your character like a Pokemon game, QUIT RPG or MMORPG games.
XBox360 or Ps3 is much more suitable for you then

P.s,
If any legit hard working player is reading this, SELL YOUR ACCOUNT ON GF or US and spend 1/3 of the money on SG and you will be back at where you left on GF or US but without any corruption. Come ask some german players here if you need proof. All sold their accs and are 100% satisfied with fun amazing non corrupt server known as S.E.A.
Period.