If you want a fun and successful game, you make it a doable challenge. It has to be easy enough for most players to finish it, but hard enough to make people feel really good about doing so. If there is no challenge, the game quickly becomes boring and people find somewhere else to throw their money (not a good model for selling DLC). I am sure that bungie kept this in mind when developing the vault of glass, to ensure the average player would enjoy the game the most. [b]At least to the best of their abilities.[/b] Now naturally some people will fall below the skill level needed to do this. So what do we do? Lower the bar so that 5-10% more people will get to experience the raid and likely make it a worse experience for the rest? Or run it in a tried and tested way, that excludes the minimal amount of people that aren't really that interested in doing it anyway. People and hand holding these days. Not having matchmaking removes issues with people being afk, unable to communicate, being too bad or just trying to sabotage every try. This is a true blessing. Last time i checked, you cant kick people when groups are formed by matchmaking. This might be a mistake on my part, but i have looked for a way to do so as there is always one guy afk in every strike i enter. From another point of view, i am sure that every player who has felt uncomfortable joining a big team with unknown voices for the first time, will feel like shit if they bump into a group with a snotty elitist brat who starts flaming them and giving them a hard time for not being good enough or not knowing tactics. This is the oldest problem in online gaming. And with the success of the PS4, it is no longer limited to xbox live. It's everywhere. Asking people in the tower if they can raid, will get you a group in 5-10 minutes as it is now. If people really wanted to go, they'd be there now. I get why crying on the internet is a lot easier. This is a horrible idea for everyone - Good or bad players alike :)