If you want a clear indication of how active people are on
EU, just download Xfire. Xfire logs your gameplay for almost every game out there and
EU is one of them.
This is from an hours played standpoint not how many players who have had a global.
Entropia Universe has logged 90,000 minutes of gameplay today by people who have Xfire and have it running while playing. I would post a link, but I do not have enough forum posts to do so.