A couple of the oldest guys I knew were from my time goofing off; back when the game first came out if I found someone in the patrol zones doing the same mission as me I'd either join their fireteam or invite them to mine, and those friendships lasted a while. As for who I play games with now, it all started with the release of Vault of Glass. The day it came out I, like many, was in LFG immediately and we got a group going. It took a lot of time and pain, but we eventually made it to Atheon before agreeing to get the same group together the next day and finish it. Fast forward a day and I'm hanging out with one of the guys from the group just waiting for everyone else to show up(he wanted to just find another group but I convinced him otherwise) and we hit it off pretty well, started hanging out in parties more afterwards. Eventually got introduced to some other people he knew a week or two later(plus one Canadian I met by getting the drop he wanted most out of a nightfall, whoops) and it just sort of clicked. The original guy I haven't talked to in a while now, but at this point we've gotten up to 17 people in a group chat, all playing together and hanging out pretty actively. As a funny side note, I found out by sheer coincidence that a few of the guys we picked up on Oryx's launch week actually knew one of the guys we've known since vanilla for just as long as we have and we somehow never met before then. I had maybe 15 people on my friends list before Destiny came out, now it's up to like 100 and while not many still play the game I still talk to a good number of them or play other games. As for the main guys, we play together even on different platforms at this point and though a good few of us are going to be leaving our consoles at home while we're at college this coming year we're doing our best to set up PC contact and have some more nostalgic fun for old times' sake. Hell, that's the only reason I've been back into Destiny recently. Seems like I dragged on a bit, but those guys are pretty much synonymous with video games to me at this point. I always thought it was important to have a good set of online friends whether separate from or together with those in real life; I like seeing how people from different backgrounds react to things and quite frankly some kinds of people you wouldn't get the chance to talk to if you live in any given area. I have a lot of mixed feelings about Destiny and a lot of bad ones when I compare the way it felt at launch to the way I feel when I boot up the game now. With that said, the last two years of my gaming career would be completely different without it and it's changed how I handle myself in online games as a whole. Now for the part that actually answers the point of your inquiry: Do whatever you want to. If you're into PvP hardcore, take the time to find some guys for Trials or Iron Banner. If you like PvE, do whatever raid or content you want. Run VoG to try for a Praetorian Foil or a Fatebringer or something you don't need. See how much you can mess around while doing Crota's End. Do whatever King's Fall tells you to because they don't give much wiggle room as far as procedure, but hey. Run Skolas for the hell of it. Put yourself in a position where you're playing with a casual mindset. If you place having an enjoyable experience before everything else and find people based on that, you'll find people with the same attitude and somewhere down the line you'll find one or more people that you feel like you fit in with. People can find lifelong best friends in a world of 7 billion people in the same town as them. Strictly speaking finding people that you can enjoy yourself with across the country or even the globe, when it doesn't even need to be forever? That's easy by comparison.

At the beginning I ran strikes and anyone that fit my playstyle, or just really good, I sent friend requests. Some accept and some don't. Then VoG came out and I got an invite from one of those people. Turns out the entire fireteam were war machines and we destroyed the raid. I then sent friend requests to those people and the best one on the team accepted. We started a clan and did over 50 raids together before HoW dropped. Most don't play anymore but those are some of the best Destiny memories I have. Just send requests and you never know who you will meet👍🏼

I went on a 34 killstreak in a control game and later befriended the team of 5 I went up against. They were like "teach me your ways senpei"

A good chunk of mine I've met in real life before playing destiny with them. Most of them were from high school, I've known a couple since I had the ability to remember, and there's just a couple LFG buddies that I met.

I used to find some people doing VoG on patrol and help them out. A person or two would shoot a friends request, we'd wave goodbye, and I normally got invited to play VoG later that night. That shite was like clock work back in the day.

I was playing a casual game of elimination with 2 randoms, I was playing pretty decent that game too. Anyways, after the game one of the guys messaged me and said I did awesome, and said he was a streamer. I joined his game and friended him. We've been playing Destiny since last December and it's been great, he also had a close friend and a brother we play with.

The people I met through destiny was always sending a gg message to my match rival, then someone will sometimes ask for pve help.

Joined a clan, then played with friends from clan mates. Also had a friend request after a crucible match when myself and another defender Titan held B on the black guardian map. We'd just trade off bubbles when one was about to run out. I also needed my defender grenade kills and that really helped. No one came to pop it, which was weird.

Either friends of friends or alone. Usually alone

joined a clan.

Honestly lfg mostly. Made a clan with them most of us went our separate ways. Then it became mostly a friend of a friend now they are like my brothers.

None of the above. In the first few days of Destiny, everything was so fresh and new and exciting. I did a strike with someone (Phogoth seemed so hard at that time) and when the third dropped out, I messaged my random teammate, "I can't believe we cleared that with just two people!" And the guy friended me. After careful consideration (I was new to online gaming), I friended him back. In another strike, playing with another couple of randoms, I think two of us just messaged each other "Nice strike!" The guy friended me, so I friended him back. So the first guy- I only played with him twice more ever in Destiny. But the 2nd guy- we wound up playing almost every night for the first year and a half of Destiny. I met his friends (real-life friends and co-workers), and eventually we formed a clan. The clan has since expanded, with members inviting their friends and relatives. While most of the clan doesn't play that much Destiny any more, we still get together to run Iron Banner teams, which is always a blast. And back in year one, we got together and made sure everyone got their year one moments of triumph, filling out hard mode VoG, hard mode Crota, and Skolas for those who hadn't yet completed them. The other friends I've met through Destiny (outside of the clan) were similar circumstances. One guy I met with a clan mate as the 3rd player (random) doing the Sleeper Simulant quest. Another player I met just doing strikes with my buddy- we ran a whole bunch of strikes one night, and this player stayed with us for maybe 5 strikes. She played in a similar style to us (we kill everything in the strike), so I commented on this. She friended me, and I friended her back (we've only played together a couple of times since- but I've played with the Sleeper Simulant guy a lot). I met the people I play with currently through my clan. Two of our clan members (newer- started with year two) were hard-core raiders. One time they came out of a raid with some raid teammates and invited two of us (clan members) to an Iron Banner team. One of the raiders friended us, and in the following weeks, persistently invited us to raid (we'd only beaten King's Fall once on normal). So eventually I accepted, and wound up becoming a regular on the raid team. With the clan playing less frequently, I mostly play with my raid team these days. So I guess for me, it was just playing a lot, finding someone who plays in a similar style, maybe sending a friendly message, and maybe they respond by adding you.

Someone on a message board created a clan. I joined up and these guys are now more than just my Destiny clanmates (some of them don't play Destiny anymore) but we co-op other games together as well.

I used to play with my irl friends and a few people in a clan we found. Then that group broke up. Had a PvP clan for most of HoW that I found through random matchmaking in Control. And there was a group I found through lfg that I raided with for the first few months of TTK, until that raid I blacked out and disappeared without warning.

Played solo for most of yr 1 doing spamming strikes to get exotics Got a invite to a clan because of the way I played Never raided till then after that every week on three characters VOG and CE

I was forever alone until I met a great group on these very forums.

Used LFG and the recruitment forum a lot to find raid groups and added people who were friendly and helpful. Eventually formed a little clan with some of them.

Clan

clan and lfg

Started off on LFG, if I laughed and had a good time during the raid, I usually would add my favorite person from the raid. (Usually the one laughing at my jokes or was sarcastic back with me) Joined a clan, which added another 10-15 people, found out they were all roughly around my age and shared the same humor. Real life friends (4 of them) joined a seperate clan. Obviously added them. They all enjoyed raiding and running crucible. When I would help them, I slowly adding a lot of their clan members, again they all shared the same humor and roughly same age. From there on out, it's been adding friends of friends who I thought meshed well with me. Haven't looked back since. 👌

Recruitment section for raid and 3 man non matchmaking events, other than that my buddy and I two man or solo everything.

Either lfg or I'll just accept invites. Always good to meet new people to game with