There are still enough , probably thousands , of players for each game type now . On a holiday week , during prime time , in NA , I shouldn ' t have had such a terrible MM experience . Destiny really reallly wanted to keep putting me in the same Rift match with the same lopsided teams and regularly start the match without a full team . But when I quit out , I found other games in progress . There totally are other players out there , but Destiny just can ' t seem to create an even match up . Also , even at launch destiny never did a good job with handling lag or rebalancing teams between matches . I ' ve raided with people across 3 continents . NZAu US GB We didn ' t have anywhere near the kinds of problems that constantly impair crucible . It ' s possible for folks with decent connections to play world wide . Games with dedicated servers can penalize players with bad connections instead of Destiny ' s approach to screw the entire match . It ' s fundamentally insane that red bars get advantages .