It's always been described as a single player title, and there were always going to be server issues, it's called instancing. Not every player is going to be connected to the same server, having one server support potentially over a million players in a universe that is essentially infinite? Potentially the instancing hasn't gone exactly as planned, or alternatively you were never meant to purposefully meet other players as has been said many times by the developers.
It is amusing who created this thread.
edit: Basically confirmed that it is server issues. If it wasn't a real feature then they wouldn't have added a scan for other players option would they, now if everoyne would calm down at the chance to bash the "opposing side" that'd be great!
