I personally use steamcharts.com but the numbers between it and destinytracker.com are pretty close. Steamcharts is roughly 3k higher, but that's fine. The issue with this season is... Lack of identity. Is this a pvp season or a pve season? There's no meaningful content to grind in pve, there's no meaningful gear to grind for in pvp. The story of pve makes literally zero sense since we could just, you know, load the Almighty up with explosives and destroy it, or even reenact the Efrideet Yeet and hurl Saint-14 or even our Guardian and destroy the ship that way (And hey, maybe Saladin would remember who we were from D1 and say "Hey, Iron Lord! Welcome back!" or something). The "Trials" are suppose to be preparing us for something, but we don't even know what that something is. Is it to prepare for the Almighty? If so, why are we getting Rasputin to destroy it? Is it to prepare for a resurgence of Red Legion? If so, how has a Cabal threat gone so undetected for so long from Zavala, Ikora, or even Eris Morn? Is it a threat we'll learn about next season? I highly doubt it as fighting Guardians is not like fighting Cabal, Vex, or Hive, and unless we're getting "Dark Guardians" or whatever the Black Garden lore tablets talk about, it's all wasted. The pve content is also pretty lackluster. No raids, no strikes, the public activity we got is just a reskin of obelisks, we didn't even get a new enemy like what we got with the Scorn. The gear from pve is also lackluster as well. Why do Seraph Towers when the weapons aren't that good? Even if we were to sunset/retire weapons today, that still doesn't excuse the fact that some perks are just worthless. Pulse Monitor? Shield Disorient? Hip Fire Grip? Seriously? Instead of making the farm worthless, why not make these trash perks better so we have reasons to use things over than the current Meta. The pvp content is just reskins from what I can tell. Never played D1, so I won't speak to that part, but just looking around people are upset. Hackers galore, Hardlights and Revokers everywhere, and all that for rekinned content as people have already said, could be just as easily played by going back to D1. But even IF you could play... The servers are so garbage you'll get disconnected halfway through a comp and get a 15 minute ban because Bungie doesn't have the ability to host a professional server. And let's not forget that all these weapons, trash and reskins, will be retired eventually so there's no reason to farm for god rolls. You get ANY roll of a weapon and you're set until it gets retired, because there's no reason to keep farming.

Simply stated they put all their efforts into making the streamers and low life sweatys happy and this is the end result. I guess Bungie can thump their chests at the 4.5% trials participation rate though. LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

I think its a very simple explanation. People are sick and tired of being constantly asked for more money just to be sold old content over and over again. Look at the forums, this "season or expansion" only cost 10 bucks and people are disgusted at the steaming pile of donkey shit they have been given for their money.

Where’s number one fan boy KellyGreen at to defend this?! I’m outraged at his lack of priorities!

Well Warzone was free and it plays brilliant and is lots of fun. There's where everyone went. Meanwhile at Bungie Towers Luke is still acting like everyone loves the game and really wants to do all the pointless grinding because its so super awesome to be there to grind the same thing as you did the last three months only for it to not matter one jot. Here is how inept Bungie is .. We apparently need to do all this grinding because we need to get Rasputin' systems powered up to blow up the Almighty right ?? .. Well a) didn't we do that already in Destiny when we raised the array and b) if Ana and Zavala can get onboard the almighty almost 100 million miles away why cant all us Guardians do that ?? .. How about we get a Transmat zone on it and "send in the cavalry" and alter its course or blow it up ?? .. I'm sure we have done that somewhere before. But that would mean no grind to mask the lack of actual fun content and they might actually have to make a story that fits instead of filling Eververse with overpriced tat. Its just going to get worse for this franchise. When Season 11 ends, and its going to be more of the same folks, one of the most eagerly anticipated games of the last ten years rocks up .. Cyberpunk 2077 .. made by a respected developer who, once it launches are going to have one team maintaining the game and another working on the online PVP, they will be listening to players and making their game better rather than making stupid cowbell emotes for money. Anyone who buys Destiny next recycled area and lies about the next four "seasons" instead of Cyberpunk needs their head read.

Well DOOM is out in 3 days...that's where I'll be.

Probably because people don't want to spent another 100 hours of their lives farming weapons that'll be removed 6 months later

I can't comment for others sobviously but for myself there are a few outliers why my playtime has decreased: 1. Frustrating lvl bump/disparity - No point in jumping into trials at 960 when the opponents usually have 1 - 3 players at light level 1000+. When new content is released, it's so tilted to favoring hard core players who have no outside commitments. It is quite discouraging to be honest. Trials was the flagship content for this season and it is geared to the 1%. In a month once most of us have reached the same light lvl it will offer a more levelled playing field but until then lower light lvl players will avoid it. 2. Non game realted issues - covid planning and preparing consuming those of us with families and full time jobs 3. PVE - old content doesn't get bumped and new content is not enticing. Nightfalls at current light lvls offer nothing of use. 4. PAID CARRIES and ACCOUNT RECOVERIES - 5 years in and nothing has changed. The bane of competitive PVP Just a few honest thoughts from my perspective.

Maybe the population is so low because no one can stay connected to a session for more than 6 minutes

People got a good look at what "New Content" (i.e. activities and loot) they have to look forward to this season, and then moved on. For PVE, it's basically Tower Obelisks all over again (Grind bounties to put Bits in a bank), except that they are giving old Faction gear (Weapons and Armour) as random "Rewards". And the new "Legendary Lost Sectors" are just a minor twist on the old ones - with insignificant loot rewards. Equally as dull and boring is the new "Destiny NBA 2020" Seraph Events, where you toss glowing balls at another glowing ball and shoot enemies for 7 minutes. PvP is SOS (Same Old Shite) with Trials for the < 1% who want to go to the LightHouse. It's going to be a tedious boring awful 3 months if your main game is Destiny.