When Bungie’s David Dague was asked in the recent Bungie weekly update about the possiblity of matchmaking for the first raid Vault of Glass and so on we we’rent given a yes but most surely not a no! It seems most of the issues with adding it will be coming down to if it will be good for the community or not. As we know matchmaking in some games will put you with players of any skill and or knowledge of the raid.
Personally I think the addition of a matchmaking system for raids is a double-edged sword that can end up in making a very competitive community (FPS) and bringing hot heads together to cause many of the started groups to just fall apart at the smallest mistakes. On the other side it will allow a much larger part of the community to see and access the raid with enough time put in. So in the end I do think it should be added, but only for raids that are in times past. For example once the next raid comes out THEN add matchmaking for Vault of Glass. That way people will be for sure geared up for the raid and hopefully have been able to do research on the raid and what it requires in terms of skills, guns and so on.
Below is David’s thoughts on the subject.
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That’s a really tricky topic.
You don’t need to sell us too hard on the value of Matchmaking at Bungie. It’s something we helped to pioneer. Yet, we understand its limitations. In the recipe of a Bungie game, Matchmaking has always contributed the ingredient of a team built to play one match of competitive multiplayer. As you’ve probably witnessed in recent weeks (or years), many of those fresh allies have failed to go the distance together.
The Raid was designed for solid teams of killers who have made a commitment to solve a dense and explosive riddle. Most of the raiding parties who have emerged victorious from the Vault of Glass have sworn that one weak link would have doomed their chain. There have been other stories, of course. We’ve heard tell of Guardians who met each other just outside the door that leads into that vault. Strange tales have reached our ears – tales of total strangers who have banded together to see the Raid all the way through to a triumphant finale.
Those stories surprise us, but the players of our games always have. The best I can do to answer your question is to let you know that you’ve been heard. We’re having conversations about how Matchmaking might support the more challenging activities in Destiny. It’s a start. Keep sounding off about it, and maybe someday some matchmade Fireteam mates will hear you, too.
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