I believe trials is currently community locked content. Please read the link I explain CLC there. https://www.bungie.net/en-GB/Forum/Post/150507559/0/0 Essentially:- Can't get a match even using the app and 3rd party stuff. Why should I? I paid for trials, I should be able to play, even if I get wrecked. 'Get gud?' Can't get a match, how can I practice? Shouldn't need to get good to play. I've been flawless once, took about 10 hours to find a team though. If you can't even get a match the temptation to pay a streamer and have a good team is pretty high, but i think that's the biggest cancer rotting destiny away atm and it will be terminal if Bungie don't fix it. I ain't paying some independent guy just so I can play content I already paid Bungie for. This is a joke. If not then why not? You are Already matchmade against teams, why can't someone who wants to matchmake their own team have the choice to do that? Edit:- I haven't agreed with it for raids but the choice to enter matchmaking on trials is essential. I'd like to practice w/o waiting all day. Elimination being permanent might help a bit but there are no rewards. With ToO matchmaking I might even get lucky and be paired with decent blueberries. I think people may communicate more and try harder for rewards in matchmade ToO as people just run elimination stupidly sometimes currently. I Don't exactly have a good team and it's impossible to get one unless you've been flawless 7643678 times already. Bungie are trying to fix community locked content re: 'must have ghorn' but ToO is even worse. Can't play unless I've been flawless multiple times so don't really even have access to content I paid for - and I'm not talking about the lighthouse, I'm talking about it taking 8hours to get a team and even get in a game, if I'm lucky. Had 3 cards over the course of about 9 hours this weekend, it's locked off from access despite already paying for it. The community has also begun streaming requiring payments or donations and follows for a carry. So I pay for content and because I can't find even a crap team do I have to pay some streamer just to get in a match!? This is cancerous to Destiny and I'm shocked it's not been fixed or mentioned at all by Bungie. I'm beginning to expect my money back, as I've paid for content that actually remains locked. Tl;Dr/conclusion Matchmaking is the only fix to community locked content, especially now the community expect payments for us to play with them. This is the most urgent issue facing destiny right now. Edit:- too easy to play against matchmade teams? Make it so matchmade vs matchmade or ranked matchmaking or some combination, if you are progressing on your card you should face tougher opponents, whether match making it not...and to go 9-0 you need to be that skilled whether matchmade or not so have it nearer the end there's no guarantee you won't be up against a group if you are matchmade? Even without that, if I want a few games with randoms and lose, so what? My choice. Might even make me more likely to put effort in to find a proper team. Atm, I go on the app/forums and Lfg and it's messing around for 10mins to hours to get a group together and it's not really communicative, people sometimes rage quit, there's squeakers and we lose. At least matchmaking would get me that experience quickly. Back at the start of trials recruitment was a viable option, it's just not now. I want to play with anyone of any skill level as a break from my regular team, it'd just not happening. It's all a lot of messing about and wasting time. Some have said it's not locked. You tried clicking that thing without a fire team? It won't load up buddy, I paid but it's locked. Unless I go in the app or to third party sites or streamers. Nope, I paid for the game, I should be able to play the game. As a side note- I understand these arguments agree with raid matchmaking too. IMO I'm not against matchmaking for raids as an option however the requirements for raiding are 'must be Lvl 32' type stuff, which is now easy to reach without raiding, or must have ghorn, which BUNGIE are trying to address and which can be acquired without raiding. I can't go flawless fifteen times or get a 1.5 trials kd without playing trials. I can't play trials with anyone other than my regular group at the times they are available because I haven't gone flawless fifteen times or gotten a 1.5 kd. Guys with 0.5 kd are looking for 1.5 kd to join! Always funny when 1.5 kd guys are like 'it's easy to get Lfg, it's just your stats are shit and I'd never okay with you' like yeah, exactly the problem. After adamantly stating its take 1 minute to find a team they are like 'well now it take me about 3 hours cause I check all the stats, Low stats guys probably don't though' Erm yeah, they want a carry more than anyone does! Finally back to matchmaking for raids...doing hard mode raid? Well must have raid experience, so done normal mode before = box checked. Plus you only do hard raid once on each character per week. I want to play trials all day all weekend. I never had trouble finding raid partners. Managed to get a few trials teams initially too but that shit is dead now. Yeah I can see how people want matchmaking for raids, but I think it's possible without. To do 3x setting the time aside to find a team is easy enough I felt, but for trials, finding a new team every other card or so depending...it's a waste of time. I want to be in a match for a quick card when I get home from work and off so I can be up early. Not wasting time writing posts and messaging people. What a pointless, unnecessary ball ache. I don't care if it gives the opposition an easy win. Trials it's looking less and less possible to play, let alone win- which isn't the primary concern here, without matchmaking. Only decent argument I see against it can be solved by some kind of ranked but increasingly difficult type of matchmaking. Some argue that it should stick to connection based too. I'm fine with that, it's just others feel this gives the opponents a free win. Going up against my team is a free win anyway no matter what! So no, I don't mind. You can hash out the details, I just want into the game I paid for! I've been flawless once only, got team from chat in a streamers channel after the streamer was done. Lucky card. That was after donkeys on Lfg and forum. Yeah I've played elimination against a well coordinated pre made all flawless team. No different from going against a team in trials with a Lfg tbh. Yeah, I still want match making in trials. Yes I am cursed re: time it takes to get a team.