I have not really seen anyone talk about this or Bungie say anything about this, so if there is information out there that i've missed please let me know. When I first finished the campaign and unlocked free roam me and my buddy were really excited about overthrow and free roam in the Pale Heart. When we were first doing overthrow I thought "i can't wait till the servers are stable and we can get 9 people running around doing this" it sounded like a lot of fun. We finished the campaign on day 1 so we assumed that the reason we never saw anyone was because not very many people had finished the campaign yet, or it had something to do with the server issues where people just weren't connecting. Well, were now 3 weeks in and the Pale Heart just feels dead. Such a beautiful lush enviorment and atmosphere now just feels like desolate lonely wasteland. I really don't understand why it's not a public area. Maybe having 9 players in this enviorment is too taxing? okay i can undestand that. So why not just cap the area to 6 or 3 players but still be public? It's become such a chore just to play free roam with other people. Sure you can matchmake into overthrow but half the time I load in and either no one is there or ill spawn in one area like the blooming and one person will be in the landing and another person in the impasse. So okay matchmaking sucks, i'll just go to find a fireteam finder. Well there is no option for overthrow in fireteam finder. There isn't even a Pale Heart option in the free roam section. Let's go back to LFG and make a post then. well there's no option for overthrow there either. so i have to post in the anything section where my post gets buried in about 30 seconds. Now for the biggest glaring issue with the Pale Heart. If your in an area and overthrow has any progress on it your fireteam is set to closed (even though in my settings it says public), you're not able to invite anyone, no one can join on you because "the activity you're trying to join is about to end!" or "the fireteam you're trying to join is at capacity" while you're alone on Level 1. So the only way you can get an LFG group is to make a post and wait in orbit until everyone joins, then fly into the area. oh someone got their class item or killed the boss they needed and left? back to orbit if you want to invite someone else. A lot of people are unaware of this so you'll join their LFG post and be unable to join them beacuse they'll be in free roam and send you an invite thinking "there's no reason that people can't join me I'm alone in free roam." Free Roam areas are supposed to be the most relaxing and easiest ways to be able to play with random players with no effort. The Pale Heart is the exact opposite of what a Free roam area should be. I really hope that it is made into a public area sometime in the future. It feels like such a waste of one of the coolest and most interesting enviorments Bungie has every made. Agian if they've discussed this somewhere and i missed it please send a link in the comments. Edit: Today they added an option for Overthrow to LFG so that will help part of the issue hopefully, would like to see it in Fireteam finder as well.