I will agree with you that some servers have far less people on them than others.
I will NOT agree that is the norm for a majority of the servers, though.
How much are you wanting to spend?
This laptop will eat any current game you throw at it: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834230141
My definition of dying/dead is the game is going to be shut down...that is dead.
Maybe what you meant was declining?
To success, it released, thus it can't be as successful as it could have been. (I hope you got that. )