I'm kidding of course, I still see plenty of people playing out in the public spaces. The problem is with Vanguard strikes. I should have no trouble finding at least one other Guardian to do a strike with. As of lately, even during peak hours, matchmaking will not find even a single other player, and I'll be forced to go it alone. This is really great because Bungie, with their infinite wisdom, has decided that you need to play through three strikes a week with at least one other Guardian using a class with the same element as yours in order to earn a weekly powerful engram. Good luck doing that when the game's matchmaking is consistently unable to find even one other Guardian to play with. What an outstanding feature. I wouldn't even be frustrated about this if it wasn't for the fact that you've put these stupid nonsense bounties into the game which are now entirely dependent upon whether other people are playing the game or not. I don't give a single shit about doing strikes with other players, I could go either way, I just want to complete these bounties and get my engram, but at this point, at least in my experience, it's entirely hit or miss as to whether I'll be able to do that or not. Just today I tried to find other Guardians for like ten minutes before just saying "screw it" and jumping into a strike. I made it to the boss and just sat there and waited for people to join for a while, and nothing. At least do something about these stupid bounties so that they're not dependent upon the game's dying community. Even the Verdant Forest was like this sometimes, which is ridiculous because you'd think lots of people would be playing a limited time event game mode, but nope, apparently not.
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How about this - coordinate playing with some friends and go in with a pre-made fireteam?