It's not that I agree with Bungie's philosophy, but you people don't understand how bad optional matchmaking would be. Do you know that [i]no one[/i] users their mics in matchmade activities? Don't believe me? Go run strikes til you find someone using their mic or even better, go run PvP and find someone using their mic. Good luck. No one communicating will make endgame activities close to impossible and you'd spend more time wiping than you would have actually making the team. Another problem I see occurring is a underlevel trying to do a higher level activity. Your matchmade fireteam would be held back by said guardian and you potentially could be wiping because of it or end up doing much more work than you would have if you took the time to make your team. And what if someone isn't helpful or AFKing? How would I kick him? A "vote to kick" system? Okay well then we kick him, have to wait for someone to be matchmade in and hope he knows what he's doing. All this time you've just wasted could have been avoided had you took the time to make your team or join a team that you feel best suits you to win. Did anyone think of these things or are we all just chanting "We want match making!" Without a second thought? That what it appears to me. It appears that the short sightedness of the stupid people of this community has opted for optional matchmaking for endgame activities for the sake of simply [i]finding[/i] a team faster without a thought about [i]how[/i] the team operates. Optional matchmaking would cause more problems than it would solve and isn't the best choice of eliminating using a third party website. Sadly, no one will take this comment to heart. Everyone is so encased in the thought of optional matchmaking that they don't stop to see the problems with it. And then someone will miss the whole point of this comment and tell me "just don't use it, problem solved." And I will classify them as a homegrown idiot who will drag this game to the depths of hell.