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Edited by G33KBOSS01:
9/14/2017 4:16:10 PM
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Why Some People Don't Want to Play With a Fireteam
Hi,
I’m a D1 player who logged over 3000 hours.
I play Crucible all the time, it’s my favorite Destiny Activity. I’m decent, not great.
(I hate Rumble BTW. Ironic, I know. I actually live for being a team player)
I did all the Raids, a lot. (I didn’t get Rise of Iron)
I was in a very successful Clan in D1(Knights of the Phoenix)
I have a lot friends on my friendlist.
So why do I, and other people, prefer to play solo 90% of the time?
There are several reasons, and I will try to be as concise as possible.
I HAVE LIMITED TIME TO PLAY:
When I get home, if I have time, I just want to jump into whatever activity
I feel like playing. I don’t want to see who is online, what activity they are doing, jump into their party,
ask them if they want to do what I want to do, wait in orbit, wait for two other people to join, or respond
to my messages, and THEN deal with the apology messages of, sorry already full etc etc.
I HAVE EMOTIONAL ANGST ABOUT THESE SOCIAL INTERACTIONS:
When I ask for friends to join me who are engaged in another activity I feel like I am bothering them.
Whether this is true or not, this is how it makes me feel, and I would rather not deal with it.
I DON’T ALWAYS FEEL LIKE TALKING:
Often times in these groups people are chatting away about their personal life, and it can be
overwhelming to me. I DO enjoy talking about the game, like callouts in PvP, but usually the
constant conversation about day-to-day life stresses me out and takes me out of the experience
I am trying to enjoy. (I hate CO-OP in story modes, because I can’t focus on the experience AT ALL)
This probably sounds funny to some people, but I bet for A LOT of solo players this is one of their
main reasons for preferring the Lone-Wolf.
THE STOP-START EXPERIENCE WITH GROUPS IS GRATING:
Play a match. One person leaves. 5 Minutes in Orbit till someone else can join. Play a match,
two people leave. Find replacements. Another 5 minutes. This tends to stress me out a lot.
I don’t know if I am coming off as a whiny wuss, but I wanted to shed some light on
why a lot of Guardians might prefer to play Solo. Maybe I am way off base.
Comments will let me know I guess.
EDIT: There appears to be some confusion here so I will clarify. I don't want Destiny to change. It should be a social game. It's awesome that way. I DO have a good time in 90% of Fireteams. I play with people all the time. The ONLY thing I would want either removed or tweaked is Skill Based Matchmaking. BUT THAT IS NOT WHAT THIS POST IS ABOUT. I'm just trying to give a perspective of why players choose to play Solo. Even with friends, not everyone can beat a Raid or go Flawless in Trials, and that is the way it should be. I LOVE DESTINY.
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5 Repliesagree with a lot of that, thank you for posting and taking the time to write and that you wrote in a thoughtful way. so, our clan-of-3 is RL-brothers. we like playing together, we know each other very well, it's comfortable, and it gives us a chance to just chat about nonsense since we live far away from each other. we'll spend hours doing jumping-nonsense at the Reef, or sitting at Crota, just bullshiatting to each other, and talking and theorizing and occasionally trying/wiping. but sometimes (no, actually a lot of times) we each like playing solo, or even mark the xbox as offline if you don't even want to get messaged by someone. we've played D1 to death (well ok not so much raids lol) and so we don't mind each other barging in. but for D2, it's all still so new to us, and it's really nice to solo the story just to experience it without any influence even from the people most important to us. it's also really nice to have someone stand at your shoulder / back. but only if it's the right person. esp. now, some of the planetary questories have some really ugly super-long darkness/nospawn zones where it really bites to wipe solo and be set like 5 stages back. or in D1, one of our best stories is a Nightfall where 2 of us died and the 3rd brother was sitting up in a semi-cheese spot with a sniper on the Archon Priest, and the three of us stayed there for literally 30+ extra minutes while he slowly, slowly worked on the Archon, because we were all unwilling to wipe. or, like, a few days ago picked up that Rat King progression and it requires more than 1 person. which, ok, I know I have brothers to count on, but it's kinda Bungie artificially forcing us to do that, which, boo :( I usually don't mind strike matchmaking, is always entertaining even when it turns bad/ugly. I generally don't want to voice-chat, either ppl don't care or e.g. my Titan (I still have no idea how to use lol) gets scolded for using FeedbackFence (wuuuuut?! I love those! and someone takes the time/effort to complain about the fact to me, on party chat?!) - and also, over the last 3 years of D1, the 3 of us actually made 2 really, really good friends. (who, TBH, those two are ***way*** better than us at the game lol!) - and we really enjoy playing with them and voice chatting with them, but, yeah, sometimes it can be too much. sometimes you just want to shut off all the noise and grind solo, the grind is real / the grind is medetation. or experience the story solo and interpret the story in only your own way. I really like what one of the other Guardians posted in this thread, "We should totally not hang out and play destiny." ha. so, I think I get it. again, thanks for being brave enough to post your thoughts.
