1 million active players, but how many of them are bots and alts?

[TheNight]

Far more when you realize that on Materia alone, bots outnumber actual players by 3:1, and on some of the servers, like Zurvan, even more like 8:1

For a player base of 19000 players on Materia, bots make up a good 10,000 of those.

Precisely. It's also rather sad when some of those bots also purchase housing, an extremely limited resource in this game. We have gotten to the point where one would not know whether a player is a player or a bot.