The option to choose matchmaking for endgame events in Destiny has been a fierce topic of discussion since launch and for whatever reason, Bungie will not include it. For a large portion of the community this means not raiding, not playing Trials and during HoW, not killing Skolas. All anyone needs to do is look up raid completion numbers and Lighthouse visits to see that only a very small % of the player base is experiencing the most meaningful content in the game. After today, it's about to be the worst it's ever been. I was disappointed when I read on Twitter there would be no matchmaking for challenge mode, but after watching the stream I was genuinely shocked they're still hell bent down this path. The thing with Trials and the higher level original PoE's is that if you're friends are running with someone else, they can still finish and run with you. My pal JS runs with countless ToO groups each weekend and at some point, a couple of us get on and run. Sure matchmaking would be awesome for when friends are already grouped; maybe it's be harder with randoms, but playing would still be more fun that sitting in orbit waiting for others to finish... but at least once they do finish, they can run again. Challenge mode is going to -blam!- that all up because it requires a card that can only be used once a week. So now when your friends have already grouped and finished their cards, there's no running again with your group after. So even more so than before, the only option for a lot of people is going to be LFG. [quote]Must be LL 330. Must have blah blah blah weapon. Must be Sunsinger.[/quote] Screw that. I will not troll LFG to run content and particularly content that could easily be completed with randoms. It's not rocket science and it's nothing like a raid. There's no jumping puzzles or team mechanics to work out. Kill enemies. Rez dead teammates. Stay alive. I'm really excited to see Winter's Run return and I think being able to endlessly run the base level PoE for Marks and chests sounds awesome, but this sticking to their guns on omm was a mistake and I think the numbers will end up reflecting it. I don't want Bungie to find me friends, I want them to let me access their content with other players looking to run the same thing without having to leave the game to do it. I seriously hope they reconsider this because people have been waiting for new fun things to play, not new fun things to be locked out of by archaic philosophies. Edit: this was a real opportunity to show you're listening and unfortunately once more it's a silly decision that's taking the shine off the reveal.