Im scared that people will leave and not come back, the reason why people are sad is because many play on the servers daily, and now they will be gone for months..
I have been 2 years with pingaz gmod, most of the times, i can play for a period of 3-4 months until everything goes to the shit.
I haven't been able to join rNd servers since 2012 and still, i like staying with the community in the forums.
I think everyone on the forums will come back, maybe we will lose the players that were new to our servers but more will come.