Bungie,
You've lost a lot of your player-base over time, which is to be expected for some games, but not for a game of this scale.
More people would stick around if they could play more of the content, but so much of your player-base is solo. You have an abysmal percentage of total players who ever tried, let alone beat a Raid 1 time.
This is something that PSO2 solved 10 years ago.
Just add in audio and visual queues in lieu of requiring mic commands and it doesn't have to be for the hardest level of content, but at least the mid range stuff where actually useful gear and items drop.
Additionally add an active wait for raids/dungeons where you can still run around and do things.
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OK. Let’s take raids. Do you have a mic? What language do you speak? What checkpoint is this for? Are we doing challenge mode? Is this a divinity run? Are you willing to teach? I suppose all of this could be built into the game, but I prefer doing all that searching and typing on something else. Like a cell phone. It literally took me an hour to do 3 SotP boss checkpoints yesterday using fireteams.