Wow you're completing misinterpreting the data.  that's characters, not people,  There isn't a million players.  not even anywhere near close to that.  The game didn't have anywhere near that many when it was live.    What's not included in the stats is how many of those million have been deleted or are even being played.   Now this is my own WAG, I would bet the 115k is pretty close to the actual size of the entire playerbase.  those numbers are all alts.