I think it's interesting that fans will try to dispute a statement from SE itself this week, because they don't "feel" like it is true.

Except, those same people defend SE on everything else.

It's okay- Having a million players across games isn't bad. 500k used to be the standard for major success. The only game that is an outlier is WoW... and this game will never be that. So I think people should be happy that this game would traditionally have been a big success at 500-750k.