Let me start this rant by talking about one of the things I really hated about The Division 1. Delta-03. I loathed that error code. It popped up everywhere, and at the worst possible times in The Division 1. Load up the game. Delta. Leave HQ. Delta. Shoot a baddie in the face. Delta. Get halfway through an activity soloing it on legendary difficulty. Delta. Playing this game right now feels a lot like playing The Division 1 back in the era of incessant disconnections and network instabilities. All 5 times I've tried to play this game today I've been disconnected or had to leave the queue for the activity I wanted to join because the infamous "Contacting Destiny Servers..." bar would pop up no sooner than anyone else would join said queue. While Ubisoft eventually fixed this plague, it will forever haunt the franchise. Which is why I've been rather pleasantly surprised to find that the latest entry has been more stable than a steadycam in the hands of a hollywood film crew. And that brings me to my next point. While I initially meant to only play The Divison 2 and BDO to keep Destiny 2's content from getting unbearably repetitive until Beyond Light, every time I launch this game I run into stupid or infuriating issues, and at least 4 or 5 error codes before I've put an hour down into the game, and that's kind of making me want to play this game less and less and less as the days go by. By comparison, I left Black Desert Online up and running for 44 straight hours afk grinding while I was unusually busy and never once got disconnected. The Division 2's central problems seem to be more to do with the fact that certain open-world activities get spawned in inaccessible locations or the servers just won't open pathways to them. Destiny 2, however, I can't seem to even load into the bloody thing most days without getting disconnected. Just this morning when I thought I might give the Iron Banner a whirl, I got weaselled before I could even get to the character menu. Since then I've been weaselled a further 3 times having only had the game up and running for a grand total of 15 minutes today. By comparison, the last time I got an error code in The Division 2 was two months ago. Effectively, what I'm trying to say here is this: The Division franchise is notorious for having stupidly broken servers well after launch. BDO is an MMO--something I distinctly recall Bungie was attempting to steer Destiny in the direction of. Both of these games reflect the past of Destiny, and the direction the studio decided they wanted to take this game in. They also have one thing in common: their servers work. Kind of an essential component to running a live-service, MMO, or online multiplayer game. If your servers are shit, your game goes from being fantastic to being apex legends. You know what killed that game on PC? Shit servers and lag. Right now, as I write this, I have Destiny loaded in the background. I've already had two different cycles of "Connecting to Destiny Servers..." pop up. Were I to load into The Division 2, and were BDO not currently down for maintenance, I'd have a good 4 hours of playtime before I start getting framerate droppage. When it comes to Destiny 2, though, I can reboot my computer, configure network settings to maximise the priority on my gigabit internet to Destiny, and run nothing but it, and nine times out of ten, running even the lowest graphics settings, if I load into anything, I'll have incessant framerate drops and disconnections. Meanwhile, I can run The Division 2 and BDO on max graphics while jamming to a spotify playlist on the highest stream quality while Dropbox uploads 16GB of audio masters for my clients, and both of those games will run smoother than a maglev train in a vacuum tunnel. The ultimate conclusion I have is this, when I load into this game and the first three things that happen are 1) I get disconnected; 2) my framerate tanks; 3) server latency drags the game into an unplayable oblivion. When I can't get it to run half as well as your competition I'm not likely to enjoy myself at all after that. I don't know what's going on with your servers. I don't know what's being done about it. But, frankly, Bungie, if The Division 2 at maximum graphics can run at a flawless 60FPS on my system, there's no reason Destiny 2 can't run at a flawless 60FPS. If The Division 2 can maintain a stable connection for 4+ hours without disconnections, Destiny 2, at the barest minimum, should be able to last more than 15 minutes. At this point, given the number of high-impact, online multiplayer games I've been playing the last few weeks, it's no longer plausible that it's my system or my internet to blame. If I can get shit on in TDV2's deserted PvP lobby at 60FPS with a sub 2ms latency at the maximum graphics settings playing against teams from Asia, I can't imagine why I wouldn't be able to get shit on in Destiny 2's PvP at 60FPS with a sub 2ms latency with the graphics settings on potato in a private lobby of people within 100km of where I live. I don't get it. I don't understand what the -blam!- is going on and since mums the word on that front, as it has been since the launch of Shadowkeep, I'm not entirely convinced you even know what's going wrong let alone what to do about it. At the end of the day, I'm playing Destiny 2 less and less week after week because if I can't even load into Io get the weekly quest done, or, for that matter, even start the weekly quest because that's apparently broken as well, I'm likely to quit and go play something else. Something that actually works. I don't think I'm asking for a lot, here Bungie. I know we're not getting an Anti-cheat in Destiny 2. I know we're not going to convince you that sunsetting is the kind of asinine plan that kills loot incentive harder than the loot pool right now. I know Trials of Osiris is never going to be a game mode worth playing unless you're hacking or are a god-tier pvp player. I know pinnacle loot and the power grind is never going to be an experience that's anything but a frustrating nightmare of 90% energy weapons and 100% pain and repetitive pointlessness. But at the very least can you do something about your servers? Because this is really not an experience I'm finding worth coming back to.