I'd be surprised if 10% of those 60k players will actually give Epoch a try now. Private server players are autistic about this type of shit, unless most of those discord users are actual retoilet refugees lots of people will refuse to play on Ascension same way they refuse to play on Turtle.
Also if you never played on Ascension - Imagine worst parts of Russia combined with the worst parts of Latin America, that's your playerbase. It's retoilet players too poor for retail.