This is still a thing. Getting worse it seems.
Faking the number of players in a map is not the way, it further deceives the consumer/player.
If you want to help us and fix this, the issue is the REGIONAL LOCKED server/lobby system. When a player sees 3 players they expect to play with those 3 players in a map, they NEVER go into a map with 3 players because of the servers being regionally locked.
Faking this number only makes this issue worse. Give us the ability to have NOT REGIONALLY LOCKED server/lobbies