Just, Lab everything for a season, up the difficulties at which we get matchmaking, and let people have FUN.
LFG on a website or phone app, is dumb, has been, and your numbers on people completing 1 dungeon or 1 raid shows the abysmal rate at which anyone touches end game content.
Destiny 2 is a single player game, pretending to be an MMO by leaving Co-Op on.. Except when its needed. If the game had been designed as an MMO, the [b]story[/b] wouldn't be about how special our guardian is, it would be about how special [b]our fireteam[/b] was, and would still have automatic matchmaking for everything.
Yeah, sure, you may not get a FLAWLESS zero death run or whatever, but Bungie you've HINGED so much of the reward system on just being ABLE To do content, and matchmaking is LITERALY the only difference as to why someone Does or Doesn't participate in that content.
And you KNOW it works because you did it with Trials, and it EXPLODES the community activity in trials EVERY TIME even as it continues to fall back to its pre update numbers.
Your writers do so much fun stuff with the characters and lore as they can. So much is built off of it for Dungeons and Raids and building up higher tier content. Let people actually get to experience it. They don't care if they aren't the top .000001%... they just want to -EXPERIENCE- it.
There's no realistic excuse not to from what I've seen so Please just try it.
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Absolutely no reason for matchmaking to not exist in Nightfalls and Dungeons. I get that Raids need communication... but so does Trials. Matchmaking should be an option for everything or nothing. Due to my situation atm, im unable to join live comms like in-game chat, discord, etc. Consequently I am locked out of Raids which sucks since I loved raiding in D1. I managed to clear the Dreaming City Dungeon solo once but it wasn't fun. Im not very good at Pvp but its the only mode i can play with people and not be bored to death cause all that is availble is open world stuff and hero nightfalls. Nightfalls on hero are guaranteed clears and take 10-15 min; loot drop rates are brutal but its just fun to play with other people in a chill pve mod; however, hero nightfalls feel like a waste of time because they are too easy and not worth farming.