There is matchmaking. .. just connect with the recruitment section of the forums. Same thing basically

Could you imagine trying to do a raid with no communication? It'd be impossible to get past oracles or the bridge.

Though I used to be for this, communication is essential for raids. If everyone is silent it is almost impossible to get past the Oracles in VoG or across the bridge on Crota (albeit Crota is easier to do silent). Imagine PoE 35 with matchmaking and no mics? Yeah.

OK.. Yes matchmaking IS needed.. Not in the conventional way though, in this game you should have a 'option' to choose MM, after choosing it the game should then take you to a tower like space for activity you want, from such a space (tower) you should then find it very, very easy to find willing partners Plus have some idea of thier xp, weapons and mainly if there using a mic.. come on anti-mm's tell me what'd be wrong with such a system?.

I'd prefer if they made the bounty board into an lfg board, this way it's in game, more people can access it. [spoiler] it'd be better if it also could show where you are at with your group finding, say I post on it that I need four more people for [insert activity here] and it shows a status bar of room in the group and when it fills the post is closed.[/spoiler]

AFKers Trolls People joining when massively under-levelled blue weapons...So many blue weapons... People who don't know what they're doing You put effort into your character, their weapons, armour etc. You make sure you're of acceptable level when doing a raid? So you expect everyone else to do the same right? I barely notice anyone using the right burn weapons Using blue weapons people being under levelled And this is all in weekly heroic. God help it if raid matchmaking becomes a thing I kinda want them to add it, just so everyone will realise it's a terrible idea an then they can remove it and be done.

[b]re: We want it to be optional so stop crying because you guys wouldn't be affected at all:[/b] Here is what will likely happen: 1) Player A queues up for a raid. 2) Player A finds a group. 3) Group is really bad, players go AFK and won't leave, players are undergeared, etc.. 4) Previous three steps are repeated an unfortunate number of times. 5) Player A thinks to himself, "This is too hard, we are being set up for failure". 6) Player A hops on the forums along with many other players like him and complains. 7) Bungie ignores them. 8) Hordes of Player A's keep complaining. 9) Bungie explains to them that if they want to success, they should form their own groups. 10) Hordes of Player A's are still complaining. 11) Bungie finally caves in and makes the existing content easier as well as any content in the future. 12) End-game content is now boring and uninteresting because raids are now as brainless as level 28 PoE. The following can also happen: 1) Player A queues up for a raid. 2) Player A finds a group. 3) Player B goes AFK or is so bad it is preventing the group from progressing. 4) Player A thinks to himself, "we should be able to kick this guy". 6) Player A hops on the forums along with many other players like him and complains. 7) Bungie ignores them. 8) Hordes of Player A's keep complaining. 9) Bungie explains that adding a kick feature isn't the best idea. 10) Hordes of Player A's are still complaining. 11) Bungie inevitably caves in and adds vote-to-kick feature. 12) Player A matchmakes into a raid and gets kicked just before loot drops because some players in the group know each other and wanted to be douchebags. 13) Player B matchmakes into a different raid and gets kicked because he is terrible and is a detriment to any group he's in. 14) Both Player A and Player B are on the forums complaining about their new problems. Then there are issues that Bungie would have to resolve such checkpoints. An example: - Not allowing people who matchmake into them would result in complaints. - Allowing matchmaking into checkpoints would result in longer queue times because the playerbase will be divided. - What happens if someone leaves after a boss (like leaving after the Templar because you only wanted Fatebringer)? - Is matchmaking gonna put someone into that raid who wanted to do a full run? - Or will that group have to hope they can invite someone who can help them? - Either way either that group will be inconvenienced or people who are queued up will be inconvenienced. Also note that the more resources they allocate to resolving such issues, the less resources they can allocate to developing new content and/or functionalities.