Watch the raid be super easy and I have to eat every word I've said.
So the crux of your argument is that random raid matchmaking will drain talent pool. After you claim everyone who partakes will fail miserably. That makes a ton of sense. Especially when nearly 5 million played the beta.
Ah, so you're one of those hardcore raiding elitist, now it make sense.
No what I said was that raiding talent will be drained from the matchmaking system by the simple fact that most people who are serious about finishing it won't use matchmaking to begin with.
And no I'm not an elitist, I never raided much in my SWTOR days. I can say with confidence though that when I did with randoms, even just to fill a few spots in an otherwise guild filled team, it was awful. One person not following directions and communicating what they are doing can throw off the whole thing. You get a person in a raid who cant or wont communicate and your fucked. But at least on PC MMOs everyone had keyboards and could atleast text chat. Console matchmaking systems are full of people who straight up don't communicate in game chat, whether because they dont have a mic on or they are in party chat. All of those people would be dead weight in a proper raid. Which brings me to my next response...
Yeah, that's exactly what it is. You go to any Destiny forum on any site right now and it's a bunch of people posting their PSN ID or Gamertag to join up with other completely random forum users to play Raids in the future.
No different from MM with randoms outside of being much more of a chore.
Good. That forces people to prove they can and will communicate. Consider it the first challenge of the raid. It weeds out all who never stood a chance (or would just hold back those that do) to begin with.
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You guys are members of NeoGAF, if anyone has the platform to find a great group of gamers to play with, its you guys. Is it really
that hard? Honest question. Do you really
need matchmaking? Don't speak for randoms either, I'm asking you, gaffers, specifically. With access to this site, and bungie.net, and wherever else you socialize, wouldn't you prefer to use these channels to find good players instead of clicking a button and hoping against all odds the slot machine spits out 5 good, mic using, sufficiently geared players that just so happen to have the same schedule as you?