Hate to say this but it has a lot more to do with the players than the game. The community as whole is completely toxic between PvP only players shitting on players that are only play pve or players that attempt to do both, to the players that cry for nerfs or complain about how difficult weapons are to obtain or how unfair it is that a weapon is locked behind crucible enough is enough there’s a reason bungie doesn’t care one way or another about what the community thinks and it’s because of the self entitled mentality most players have. Then you factor in that there are continuous bugs a lack of loot ( this being a looter shooter means a lack of loot is a bad thing) constant repeats of weapon and armor drops the elitism of raid only players and Ta-da you have a massive player drop off. The lack of content is also a factor in this hacking and cheating are major issues a silent game developer that won’t even acknowledge the community except when nerfs need to be applied and once again you have players leaving that are dissatisfied or bored. This will continue until after penumbra when bungie takes full control of the game which is when things should change but that being said there’s bigger issues that need to be addressed and that’s the community as a whole until bungie implements a system where you Can block problem players because let’s face it the report feature is useless better matchmaking and a better loot pool things will continue down this path. People are over the negativity and it’s driving players out and chasing away many new ones Edited for spelling Edit so let me make my point clear here I’m not saying every player is toxic at all but from friends that I have that stopped playing to friends that refuse to play one of the major factors is toxic players. A toxic player doesn’t have to be some troll in the forum it can be a person that quits mid match or doesn’t help in gambit it is a person that doesn’t kill a damn thing in a strike but insists on rushing ahead or refuses to revive teammates. A toxic player is the elitism that happens on lfg for raid teams or on the lfg in general that there are different ways of being toxic that most don’t think about . When you factor that in with the major issues the game faces and issues the game has such as lack of content and being repetitive you lose players