I get it, Bungie. You’re trying to consolidate the player base as much as possible to reduce matchmaking times and enhance general competitiveness.
Here’s the thing: solo players enjoy the solo queue for Iron Banner, Control, and Clash because it’s a different playing experience. We get more 1v1 duels in solo queue, instead of constantly having 2 or 3v1’s.
Constantly tilting your game towards the enjoyment of pre-made fireteams while ignoring solo players alienates a not-insignificant portion of your fan base. We get tired of feeling like an afterthought, or being treated like cannon fodder only useful to enhance the experience of stacks.
Please add solo queue back in. This isn’t the solution you’re looking for.
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Content creation is hard. If they combine the pools of players, it makes a big pool to draw players from.. What bungie should do is make a better game and create better content to play. That will bring players to the game and create a healthy pool of players to draw from. What bungie does now is puts toxicity together hoping it will fix the problem.. nope.. you gotta put in the work to fix the problem of stale, laggy, pvp matches full of cheaters, hacks, paid carries etc.