I like how they just now published numbers for a year that ended in March last year, hence they're really 2013 numbers, typical SE doing things all backwards, if anything it's bad investor reporting though Polygon are equally bad on their own. Anyway, I doubt the numbers will massively change at all, it's no surprise the game doesn't have nearly close to 1 million real subs as some people have already guesstimated how many actual active subs the game has, the 2.5 million "adventurers" numbers was always just PR spin on registered accounts.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...eased_another/

The cash shop is the perfect sign of this, usually when WoW clone MMOs such as ARR start under performing and not retaining enough subs, they push the F2P cash shop panic button. No, this game will never ever pull a WoW and maintain both a cash shop and a sub for an extended period of time i.e. more than a year, it's really silly to believe that.