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originally posted in: BUNGIE Please Hear Me About RAIDS
8/30/2014 4:40:20 AM
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Matchmaking would be brutal, think of all the rage quitters, squeakers, whiners, complainers, I'd rather have people in my friends list that I've talked to and I know are mature enough to work as a team with some minor griping over some unknown randoms. People shouldn't have a hard time finding others for raids, Hence why matchmaking is pointless, it's called go to the tower make some friends who seem decent, and go from there.
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  • So you think adding someone to your friends list manually and then 3 minutes later going to raid, somehow has made that person infinitely more skilled, more cooperative, and more informed than a matchmaking system? Can you explain to me where this magical bond happened that suddenly turned someone you hadn't met, into your Destiny BFF that will ensure your raid is flawlessly executed and without headache? All you did was "Add friend." Good luck with explaining that logic of yours. It's pretty hard to defend a position where you focus entirely on the negative potential of something, and completely ignore the reality that not every matchmaking setup ends in disaster.

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  • While not every match-making setup would end in a disaster odds are that they will. Sure there's a chance you might end up with a good bunch but that's also more of a roll of the dice than anything else. People obviously won't generally become instant bff's as your facetious comment has stated but by adding/joining a clan or chatting with someone before placing them in your friend list you can guage if this person is a good fit to play with. You can check their character stats. Ask them a few simple questions like what role will they play? Ask yourself do this person seem stubborn and possibly troublesome from their dialogue. Can you take a chance in putting your faith in them to trust them for hours on in. Match-making lobbies generally have auto-start timers one the party is full to speed things along and a good match-making system usually fills parties quickly. This doesn't allow you enough time to learn about your party and strategize roles. Now if you're in a lobby and your are host/leader you will be wasting time through the server to figure out if the players coming in the room are a good fit. Naturally this will lead to you kicking out players that you don't think gel with your parties ideal set up and you will be subjected to waiting for whatever next random comes in just to scout out. This process could have been sped up and made easier. Obviously match-making is in no way informative of the players you are with. You have to inform yourself by checking they're stats and prying into their agenda through a line of questioning. Naturally the way Bungie has things set up is more cooperative. You are agreeing to cooperate with a person for a common goal. You wouldn't add someone to your friend list for a raid that doesn't want to cooperate but in match-making it won't matter if a person wants to cooperate. They have gotten into the match and may attempt to do their own thing regardless of the outcome. [spoiler]You are soo not gellin.[/spoiler]

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  • Adding people isn't as hard as you think. Takes a few clicks. All it is. Recently started playing umg with my friends on cod ghosts. Really easy to add someone play a few matches and remove them afterwards.

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  • Yes but 9 times out of 10 it does. There isn't going to be MM an I hope there never is for raids. They have stated multiple times this game mode is for the hardcore fan base an a very small percentage of players that play this game. Multiple MMO's have raid systems an the good ones, don't have MM. WOW had no matchmaking an raids were fun an thrilling. Now there just some repetitive task since they have added MM. Some people see it in the optimistic way, others see in a negative one. If you don't have atleast 5 friends how do you even enjoy games? I refuse to play when nobody I know is on. Don't get how so many people don't have friends, not hard to develop friendships online.

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  • Nope, your implying that. But at least finding someone your own age or relatively close is more beneficial then having random people. Why is it so difficult for you to make friends? Wouldn't you want to make sure the people you are raiding with are at least on the same terms, not just testing it and backing out. It's annoying as hell dealing with random people, little kids and trolls. When I have the person on my friends list, I've at least made sure they were mature enough or my age, were less likely to rage quit and that they aren't screwing around.. Besides I don't need to people search. I have a decent set of people my age who I've been gaming with and know that we'll accomplish the raid. I'm just not sure why you think random people is a better idea then finding actual friends who are on the same page as you.

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  • Says the rage quitter, squeaker, whiner, & complainer.

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  • You're also complaining

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  • Speak for yourself. Your Obviously one of those pleb's who wants matchmaking for raids, hence your negative comment towards mine. Some peoples children...

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  • Agreed.

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