[quote]You have no way to communicate with those 5 other people until they have accepted your invite, that's the problem.[/quote]Yes, that is a problem. [quote]I have no idea how you are arriving at that conclusion. Are you saying people who would normally want to do premade raiding would abandon that and instead do MM if it's implemented? But... why would anyone abandon a group of people they know for strangers? That doesn't make any sense. I still firmly believe that if you decide not to use MM it won't affect you. To add, I don't plan on using MM if it is added.[/quote]There are two reasons why I would have a harder time finding people to raid with. The first is that there would be fewer people looking to form pre-made groups in the first place, which makes finding people who can raid at the same time as me more difficult. The second is indeed that matchmaking will result in people abandoning people they know in favor of strangers. I have first-hand experience of this in other games. In fact it happens without matchmaking, but would be more common with the addition of matchmaking (because matchmaking wold make it easier to find a new group of people). [quote]For being such a social game it sure has terrible social mechanics. You can't communicate with anyone in-game unless they are in your fireteam. You can't talk to anyone until AFTER they accepted a random invite to a fireteam from a stranger. There is no text chat. The game is missing critical components that are found in MMOs which would make MM for raids not as necessary for certain people. Also, not all content involves working with other players, that is just blatantly false.[/quote]Yes, Destiny needs better communication. And yes, all content involves interaction with other people: missions force you to go through a public interaction zone at the beginning, exploration is just the public interaction zone, PvP is multiplayer, strikes are group cooperative, raids are larger group cooperative.