Until Bungie switches their net code to use local dedicated server's this will always be a thing. They've had years to do this even though the player base has been complaining about it for years. My recommendation is show them how you feel with your money. Don't buy Eververse, seasonal, and expansions until they fix their foundation. The Destiny community does this to themselves by continuing to throw cash at them.

As an experiment, I tried shutting off crossplay (Xbox Series S) for a little while a couple weeks ago. I only left it that way for a couple hours but here are my results: • As expected PVP lobbies took too long to gather enough players. I suspect they are no longer configured to function in a way conducive of crossplay disabled setups, so not really any surprise. • What was a little surprising (and frankly disturbing), was how much the quality of my PVE experience [i][b]immediately and massively improved![/b][/i] To be clear, I expected [i]some[/i] improvement, but not that much! • Movement and responsiveness in game became massively better (at least twice as good, maybe as much as three times as good!). • Mob movement became much smoother and faster. • Aim and Shooting became way better, crisper, more accurate. • Lastly (this one is a little weird): [i]TIME[/i] seemed to [i]flow[/i] more consistently. In 'normal' crossplay enabled play in Destiny, the flow of time in game seems to flow inconsistently, (especially in PVP). In ANY game activity, even patrols, time has a jittery feeling of flow, as if Destiny's internal clock is trying and [i]failing[/i] to synchronize its 'tick' speed across a gathering of players on different platforms with different networking environments. I [i]suspect[/i] this is the core reason the PVP experience has become so awful. I don't know exactly where the bottleneck is, but some aspect of 'normalizing' the multiplayer experience across multiple platforms is just [i][b]NOT WORKING.[/b][/i] It may be that the technology is simply not currently capable of correcting for all synchronization issues between these different platforms, doing it live, and often doing it as those dynamics are in flux (people leaving and joining an activity already in progress - potentially on different platforms). In any case, it is clearly resulting in an experience with an [i]unacceptable[/i] drop in quality. Were it not for my desire to do Nightfalls, Crucible and other multiplayer content, I would disable crossplay and leave it that way. I encourage everyone to try playing with crossplay disabled, just as an experiment. It's pretty eye opening...

Cross play needs removed from pvp. It is a terrible addition. It has never worked properly. Experiment failed.

Maybe get better internet? I barely ever have laggy games, and if I do, it's my internet. Kids tryna play on a 2mbps wireless connection 😂

You gotta be in America right? Europe is 90% psn players n I'm Xbox, it blows

So odd. All I play against are PS players. Connectivity is horrible. Lag is worse than it’s ever been.

I know what you mean, I'm on xbox and the people play with as well and most lobbies are only ps players, sometimes 1 or 2 xbox players. I don't understand why other platforms get preference in matchmaking. Imo other platforms should only be matched if there are not enough players available from one or the other. This cross play makes no sense to me.

Yeah and then bungie (the company without dedicated servers) (and without investigating) put restrictions on people accounts who aparantly have a “bad connection that is affecting other players” even if you have a stable hard wired connection with 100mbps speeds and the best DNS settings you can acquire. Because some salty player can’t handle being beat so decide to report you because your invis hunter appearing off radar for a second.

They wont because they would have to boost the servers higher than they already are. They cant even support connections between same consoles properly without everything being invisible.