the game is 6 years old with a small player base is it worth the effort
Small player base? It's 8th on the list for peak concurrent players and it's 26th for current players online. It was nearly at 100K current players online a few weeks ago. And that's just Steam. It sold really well on GOG and Epic stores too. It's still one of the most played games and is still used by tech sites for benchmarking. So of course it would be worthwhile to use as a showcase for any new tech.