I have 3k+ hours in D2 alone. Members in my clan have similar hours and they're telling me they are leaving come September DLC. They won't be buying it and they're going to look elsewhere for entertainment like valorant. I'm personally going to just stick to Cyberpunk, and when that's out; I'm out. Hackers are everywhere, and you know it's BAD when they're doing it in quickplay. Banning hackers is far too slow. It took 2 weeks for one I reported to get banned, I have noted down steam profiles of blatant hackers that I check on to see if they have had a game ban each day (sad I know but it lets me know Bungie isn't doing anything about it) and they still aren't getting banned. Hackers STREAMING have not been banned. Connections in crucible are awful. Peer to peer is garbage. "Connection based matchmaking" seems to be a lie. I do NOT expect this to change for the simple fact that Bungie buying dedicated servers will gain you nothing but additional expense. Players would be happy but you guys would be paying for it so why bother? Time gating and seasonal content is boring. The only reason I'm booting up the game is to finish off season stuff (and I'm booting it up far less often since everything is time gated),I might follow suit with my clanmates and not buy the next big expansion. May as well play next season as I have paid for it. Is losing me and members of my clan a big loss? Well no, you have plenty of people who boot up the game to run 2 strikes and farm patrols on EDZ. Then they'll fork out $40 on eververse so that'll be enough to keep you going. However what you are losing at least with me going is someone who helps players out who never have the chance to run end game content, or solve difficult secrets. When zero hour dropped I sat in the Farm local chat asking if teams needed help to run this mission. I have ran both normal and heroic combined over 100 times helping individual teams through. Across all raids I have sherpa'd 271 people, many of whom had never done a raid and wouldn't have had the chance to. I have raided with many more, have ran 575 raids combined and taught so many people mechanics who never would have got the chance thanks to LFG standards. I have had people tell me I have given them confidence in their abilities in raids and they feel that they can join other groups asking for experienced players now. This acts as a ripple effect. An experienced player teaching people what they know and in turn they take that knowledge to others, it ripples through the community. I'm not the only one who does it, many more do. But at least with myself and my friends, come September we're going to stop, and you're going to lose some of that ripple effect. You're still going to have people playing. You're still going to have people helping others, but with people like us you're losing us. Maybe it doesn't matter to you though. Each new eververse drop you'll see revenue go up, and if people are paying that's a good thing right? We'll see. Time will tell if this game can keep people beyond superficial skins.