This game desperately needs OPTIONAL matchmaking for most activities, the Halloween event proved it was possible. If this game is actually still an MMO it at least needs some modern social features and matchmaking. There are games from almost 20 years ago with better matchmaking and social features than D2. The people against it remind me of those people getting angry about PS4 games coming to PC years later like it does them personal harm or something.

Multiplayer game

Optional Matchmaking - Problem solved

Have you solo flawlessed both dungeons? Its an MMO. Alot isnt soloable.

I don't guess I understand the "I can’t Even solo a seraph tower" part. Why not? I mean, if you're talking about going in, making sure you are 100% in a solo instance and then attempting the activity then yeah probably not going to happen unless you happen to be Esoterickk (he actually has fully solo'd a Tower 0_0 ). If you are talking about just playing solo and running into an instance where others are around... Getting easier each. People are getting their light up and also figuring out exactly how it works now. I would guess that within the next couple weeks it will be difficult to get into an instance that does not complete if there are a few blueberries around. If you want to do some and find yourself in a solo instance then fast travel back to the same spot until you get some randoms.

Completely understandable, though i have to say, friends make all the difference. Being casual and starting with a casual _____ LFG post whilst nearing home on transit is a start.

Same boat, different variables. My clan is down to like 4 guys...once I got life outta the way for some me time I finally jumped on this past Sunday to start the new season and play some trials, and guess what the other 3 guys were doing? ...yup, so I collected my quests and jumped off. Such is life. Maybe next week.

I agree. The game has become too difficult and requires a "grind" many of us average/ working players that lack time and skill. I too have had say good bye to a great game.

TTK and Forsaken are the only time I had people to consistently play with. I’ve always managed to get within endgame content even before the app had LFG tab.

I am a solo player, but I still do raids and all that cause it's pretty quick and easy to set up your own fireteams with LFG features (I use the one here on Bungie.net) I am not a dad but I assume most of us have full time jobs and still find the time. I've never had to get a group for the seraph tower, I just travel there and 8/10 times there is already one going on with people and I just jump on in

I’m in the exact same boat have my kid in the day and work until 1am 5 days a week the only way I actually get things done is having friends sign into my acc and play for me

There's a vid from fallout plays (youtube) on to level efficiently- it changed how i went about playing That being said most activities are match made But I'm a single dad and play regularly with a couple of dad's, though their time is less than mine (cuz there married) - to help with team stuff - if you're on ps4 hit me up if you need a fireteam

To be fair, if you have other obligations, you must accept that you can't have everything you want if you don't have the time to get it. That said, there are primarily solo players who do have the time, but lack means. One of my biggest issues with D2 is the lack of an intuitive in-game looking for group chat or tool. It's a sort of "I see characters, but I don't meet players" sort of feeling when playing the game, because there's so little to facilitate interacting with others. No one talks or interacts at all; everyone's just doing their own thing. Having to rely on an app or tab out to a web browser is so clumsy and unintuitive, especially to new players, that it's no wonder a lot of the non-matchmade content doesn't even exist in the history of so many. Even something as simple as a global looking for group chat in the tower would be excellent, at least on PC. On console, something like a window in the director to list and see listed groups would work. Even as a primarily solo player myself, I don't agree that everything should be obtainable solo, but I do sorely hate how annoying it is to not just find a group, but figure out how to find them in the first place, so much to the point where I just refuse to participate in non-matchmade stuff as a sort of protest for how awful the process is. Then again, this has always been a problem. So many essential facets of the game have absolutely ZERO clues on them even existing, from simple things such as how to make a public event heroic, to more complicated things as getting together and coordinating an end-game activity. Finally discovering them usually comes from being frustrated and being forced to stomach someone's ad-cluttered blog post covering the topic, followed by refusing to do them anyways out of spite for such a terrible system.