Hey there :P The first thing I have to mention is that I am from Germany. During my last job interview I was told my english is "pretty bad".. so please forgive me if it's not easy to understand what I am talking/writing about D: I am not going to flame, but when I read that Destiny will have no matchmaking for raids, because.. "reasons".. I was disappointed. It's because I don't add everyone who crosses my way to my friend list. To be honest.. there are only people in my Xbox Live friend list that I also know in real life. Also, a lot of my former "Xbox Live friends" still do not have current gen consoles, while others split into two camps.. PS4 and Xbox One. I own both consoles but prefer my Xbox One for multiplayer features. I could also buy the PS4 version of Destiny, but the problem would be the same for me. What's the problem, you ask? My friends lists aren't huge. Even if every one of my friends - on one system or the other - would buy Destiny (which is not going to happen, I guess) it would be hard for me to get all of them to play at the same time. I know my luck.. as soon as I would have gotten enough friends to go on a raid, one of them starts suffering some issues with his connection or something like that and this whole raid can't even start. Now I am worried that I won't be able to see all this raid content of the game. I know.. it's my "fault", because I don't accept strangers in my friend list.. but still.. it's a disappointing news for me. In the end the devs can tell me what they want, but.. the most important thing is not "communication / only with friends".. it's skill. If you now what you're doing everything is fine. Destiny is after all nothing more then a shooter. As long as there are no Portal-like puzzle elements that can only accomplished by 6 players together everything should be fine.. at least in my opinion. What's going on with Destiny is excactly the same thing I hated when they released "Halo 3: ODST". I loved the idea of this games firefight mode and I was really looking forward for it. But when the game released I only had 7 friends on Xbox Live, most of them did not own the game. Thank's to that I only had the chance to play this mode a few times with one or two friends together. Why? Because Bungie decided that Halo 3: ODST's firefight mode should also be a "friends only"-thing. Now they are doing the same thing again. That mode was my main reason for buying that title.. and I couldn't really play it :-/ I hope this whole matchmaking situation will change in time. Forcing people into adding everyone they meet in their friends lists isn't the right way. You know what will be the result of that, do you? Play a MMORPG, stay guildless for a while and you will see. You will get spammed with guild invites. I am sure we will all get spammed with friend requests in Destiny. At least that's one of my other worries that I have because I've seen something similar in many MMORPG's. It could get pretty annoying if every second person you meet sends you a friend request, just so you can go on raids together. That's at least what I think about this whole situation. Good thing I am more interested in PVP than PVE, but it still disappoints me.. So.. and now.. please don't flame me :D I just wanted to talk about my personal opinion and give some feedback. I face my old ODST-situation once again. It means for my that I am - for now - someone who can not go on raids. If Bungie releases new raid instances I will not buy them for this reason. If raid and pvp dlc's are combined in one package I'm sure I'll think twice before I'll buy them. Give us some matchmaking and I'll buy everything without hesitation :P :D I wouldn't be suprised if there are other peoples with similar thoughts about the matter. Allright then.. mission accomplished, now I am out :) Have a nice day guys ^^