As for where the hell is everyone????? heheheh common question!

That can be explained I think, I did some math ages ago, and here was my very basic reasoning.

For about a quarter of a million subs, where they play around 5 hours a month (which was a median average playtime number from an unreliable web resource) would mean that during each hour there would be around 2000 people online in a given hour, split between servers worldwide, I think that would mean between 50-150 online at anyone time on a consistent basis.

The numbers are very hard to interpret, but I think it's very hard to equate number of subscriptions to direct player activity.

If anyone else has any better math to determine the perception of players online against sub, please post here, my numbers are very rough and just to give an impression of scale from a single user perspective.