Ranked usually gets up to 10-12 concurrent ranked games during peak hours on a week day. As PoxBot said it can take a while to find someone for a custom game. The discord server is pretty active however and you can find an opponent at pretty much any hour.
Dying? Oh hunny. This game has been dead, re-animated, banished into limbo, brought back through a big bang, then snapped back into absolute entropy.
She's still kickin' i just signed in and played my first game in almost two months (work is a *****).
I play at least every other day. But I'm ps4, and can' really play ranked. Just solo, and only PvP against other ps4 folks.
Some of the best games ever made fall into obscurity. Sacrifice is one of the better games I've ever played and unfortunately it never got mass appeal that it should. RIP Yet it still kickin with its small playerbase and I visit at times