Where are all the people? (Destiny)

by Earendil, Thursday, September 11, 2014, 10:05 (3522 days ago) @ Oholiab

I've not played much so far (I'm a lowly level 6), but when I have played, I find the world to be very sparsely populated. Is this a product of being on last gen? Being on PST? Playing late at night? Even the tower is empty: last night I was the only one there for quite a while!

This has always been my fear: that having four different versions would fragment the community and player experience.

Is this typical of what everyone else is experiencing?

If it had to do with you timing and console, that would imply that you were the ONLY one playing on 360/PS3, which I highly doubt. My guess is that it's a combination of Bungie's servers not aggressively placing people together, or that your ping was bad enough that Bungie's servers decided you needed to play in your own world lest things get jumpy for all players.

I suspect Bungie will fine tune the server algorithms and player placement as time goes on.