Perhaps the problem is more to do with the amount of data that has to be trafficked? Now I admit I haven't a clue how this works, in the division between what data is transferred back and forth, and what is generated locally. Is the the entire enemy character and movements downloaded? I don't know. We all want you beaut, flash, outasight graphics, but this must come at a cost of speed? We don't want this, obviously, but perhaps someone would know what would happen if the players were all wire outlines, and the scenery clunky?

You're just learning that? It's been like this ever since the first month of ttk?

The way I see it if you have a bad connection what are you doing playing online games? It would be like trying to enter an F1 race on a ten speed bike. This generation of online offerings are bandwidth hogs. If you like online gaming as a hobby then buy the right equipment. Get a good solid router, hard-line that sucker unless you have Nighthawk tier wi fi and for God's sake buy a decent broadband package. The base tier for most broadband is barely adequate for gaming. You see for those of us with a good connection your bad connection punishes us. We end up in crappy crucible matches, barely able to engage a target that is rubber banding and teleporting all over the map, taking six shots to the face before dieing and generally making Crucible frustrating as hell. Whether you intend to lag or not is not the point. The point is your inability or unwillingness to properly support your hobby is ruining things for those of us that have invested the money in optimizing our connection for gaming.

Unless Bungie puts up dedicated servers, they can't punish or exclude players with "naturally" crappy connections.

You can either reward or punish players with bad latency, but there is no in between. There is no balancing for latency. It works in PvE to some extent, but it will never work in pvp. You cannot reward a conditiom that can be easily artificially induced. If lagging was a detriment and not an advantage we'd have never seen lag switchers in pvp. Bungie is simply pushing the needle in the direction it needs to go. If you have a bad connection, i feel for you. I really do. I used to have to play over terrible wifi. But this does not excuse an unhealthy environment for the game as a whole.