[quote]Many players throw matches for the 3 win bounty.[/quote] Take a look at the numbers & ask yourself how many times a player would need to throw matches & how long each game actually is before this player earns 1/2 pieces of loot? That may not even be the rolls he/she wants.

[quote]Do players often throw matches?[/quote] This is Destiny. Players are willing to constantly jump off cliffs, idle for 24+ hours, disconnect their LAN lines and do every trick in the book for any sort of shortcut. Yes, they are going to exploit this system as hard as possible. Throwing matches is small potatoes.

[quote]You only have to queue, you don’t have to partake in the game. Set a macro, come back every few minutes, let the game do it’s job.[/quote] This really only affects the PC where you can set macros. Consoles are unaffected by this. And I would think that recovs and specially cheaters, which all abuse the F2P nature of D2 on PC, would be of a much higher concern than AFK farming. Something which is easily addressed, plus I honestly don't care about PC, and neither does Bungie seeing as how bad cheating is over there. [quote]Talking recoveries, could pay to have someone take three accounts through, just sitting through matches.[/quote] That's kind of the point though. Since there's no gatekeeping, merely a gut check off how much you are willing to endure time wise for that loot, it means that anyone committed enough can do it, it would make recovs insignificant, thus making it extremely cheap, which in turn makes it not worth it to do, for those that can, RNGsus knows I'm not good enough to do recovs, but I am good enough to go flawless every once in a while. [quote]I don’t support game modes that incentivize or reward throwing.[/quote] That's all good and well, and frankly I agree, BUT, in a game based on RNG, a game that is very foundation is anti competitive, a game that's only going to get worse in terms of balance, who really should care?! For a game mode like this to thrive, it needs a completely leveled playing field in ordered too be truly competitive. That's why Halo was actually competitive, because it was extremely balanced. Three further they go away from that, the worse it got. Destiny May have that signature Bungie FPS feel, but it's anti competitive in it's foundation (and if you don't believe that, just go back and watch the videos of D2 year 1, or if you played back then, then you know). D2 year 1 was as leveled and competitive as a looter shooter has ever been, and it sucked BIG TIME. We should do away with this mindset for this game. It doesn't fit the game they made and we keep trying to force it, and it's only gotten worse. I'm not saying make it casual, Lord no please, but we need to accept the fact that a true competitive PvP endgame experience does not fit D2 as a game, like at all. You might mention D1 years 2 and 3,v but I urge you to try and really remember those times. A lot of people miss remember or look back with rose tinted glasses. Trials has been in constant decline since it's inception in D1, it just happened much slower back then.

..... there’s no gate keeping at the moment though. You can literally jump off the map every weekend and acquire all of the loot eventually. Even if you just secure three wins for the weekend and wait you will get everything trials has to offer. Let’s not lie here and say the problem is that players in destiny think everything should be easy to get no matter how well you play. They complain until it is so watered down that all they have to do is jump off the map because they can’t be bothered to actually try

[quote]It promotes an non interactive experience. Bungie has gone out of their way to prevent afk farms, this could easily be another one. Furthermore, the point is to fight. When there’s little risk, what’s the point. One of the few changes I support is making a separate flawless pool.[/quote] It totally could be an AFK farm, [b]IF[/b] they continued to allow players to endlessly enter the matchmaking pool. Just send that AFK player to orbit. The game could also detect your player inactivity, & lock you out for 15-20 mins. It’s not difficult for developers to make a simple program that accomplished that. The point is to fight yes, and not even in regular crucible do players just give up and say ok guess I’ll just sit here and die. There’s an inherently competitive nature that comes with the playlist, but again, your time as a player needs to be respected. Rewards are just rewards, and weather if less than 20% of the playerbase earns flawless loot, or 100% it doesn’t matter. It all comes down to the actual player using his/her weapon to win a gun fight.