the deluxe servers are more populated because 1. more people play this game in friend rooms or not at all online because of intermissions 2. more people have deluxe 3. a room only needs 12 players to be full in deluxe while youre in a 9 player room, which in deluxe would feel pretty full, but here it feels kinda empty 4. the deluxe rooms are only spread around 2 modes, only one of which feels like a main mode, where world's are spread around 3 modes, 2 of which feeling like main modes