Just seen this game averages only 9.2k players per day on steam. Wonder how many only use uplay like me.
I think many have and play it via Uplay since 1) You can find a cheaper key for it and 2) it was coming free with the nvidia cards. They'll probably pick up quite a few more folks after this weekend with their "free weekend" promotion.
I don't think the existing community for the game community will go anywhere. For a lot of people it has been "the game" they've been waiting for since Swat 4/previous R6 games, myself included.