I hope you're right Enkie. The playercount dropped instantly when sa-mp switched to 0.3, because there isn't an official server list anymore. This was a nice advantage for LW's. When this changed, instantly the playercount dropped. I noticed last weeks that new players arrived, but it's just that we need to treat them less hard. I often kill them hard, and then they ragequit, I try to go soft on them now to let them stay, and maybe help a little with cash and some explenation of how to make money and play the game.
But I'm sceptic about the server update too, I don't think this will happen soon.