Agreed, the absence of in game clan/guild system makes it hard for players to join. Many players have no need for forums and just prefer to play game instead. Therefore many just look for there friends on roster and join from there. Seems honestly there is no need for clans as there does not seem to be any benifit. Other mmo's will often give incentive for guilds/clans such as discounts at certain shops, special vanity, other in game content or even just a clan hall for members only. With none of this here, it seems clans are pointless.
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Then there's clan PvP leaderboards. Being able to to test not only your mettle but your clan's as well is one of the major MMO features, and it show up in plenty of shooters as well. All in all, we need clan functionality in the game. Xbox live has stripped out a lot of the features that would make finding a group for various things in this game easy. Needing to go to a forum just to coordinate with a clan to go run a raid is stupid. As stupid as the only lore information from the game available on the same site. One almost wonders if Bungie gets cash from Activision for pageviews or something...
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