Got it! You are against any additional social infrastructure added to the game because TROLLS! The TROLLS are gunna get everyone and ruin everything!!! You better get off the Internet then cause I'm afraid there's a whole lot of em on here! Lmao this is the most retarded argument ever. Annoying players have BEEN dealt with successfully many different ways In games, including but not limited to; the good old use of the mute button. I can't stand the argument of taking away features or things from people because a small fraction of people misuse it. This argument has been used to justify so much BS.

So how do you get to meet new people? Random invites to fire team? That gets old real fast. Strikes and PvP should have a team chat. This is where you meet the people to add to your friends list, and get to know other players. The fact it is lacking is a major draw back to the social aspect and a major reason the calls for MM go on. The lack of chat options combined with no MM ability in the end game is a horrible decision, and the reasoning is weak. Lack of chat/text - To stop trolling of other players. Solution - Every game to have chat/text has already solved this problem - mute or blacklisting the player annoying you Match Making in the end game - Need to communicate - Too hard - Will somehow lead to the nerf of raids - Will make raids less "special" - Will destroy the social aspect - People will fail without a fire team of friends Solutions - Add group chat, the team can talk things out - Who cares how hard it is rumored to be, that "lone wolf" may actually be a bad ass and find it extremely easy. Being in a clan or having a large number of friends doesn't make you a better player. Not being able to try helps nothing. - Easy, leave the difficulty alone, so far there is no problem ignoring concerns over MM or chat - That's your elitism peeking through, you want gear/weapons others can't get to make you feel special or better than others - Actually letting random people have at the raids may actually help here, go in and fail but those couple of people that were really trying, hell I'll add those guys to my list and try with them and some of their friends and mine to round out my group. Also a lot will go in try and maybe fail, but come out the other end of it determined to go back and get better to beat it, there by creating better players. The only obstacle here is the lack of team chat - an easy fix - People are going to fail with a fire team or without it guaranteed. The one and only problem with match making is the missing element of team or group chat, or more simply put the social aspect is missing from a social game.

lets tackle this one at a time. 1. raid matchmaking is end game pve content, there need to remain a "restriction to enter" requiring a premade group is perfectly reasonable. 2. yes chat functionality sucked in the beta, a proximity chat for members outside the fireteam would be very helpful. 3. No, splitscreen forces a console to work twice as hard, it puts unneeded stress on the console, and degrades the game's quality,

No raid matchmaking is annoying but not a huge deal, no split screen is a non issue for me, but no proximity chat is pretty sucky. Its amusing we can dance and all, but when the game wants to encourage interaction with others player, one of its foundations even, it just make very little sense to then not be able to talk to anybody.

I agree with you for everything except proximity chat

As I believe it has been said, the only reason Raid MM is an issue is the lack of social interaction methods included in the game. You can't encourage social interaction and at the same time limit it's existence to fire team and the forums. The main game design is somewhat bipolar in that respect.

Is split-screen happening in this game?