“I think rather than say ‘Yeah, we’re going to make matchmaking for raids,’ the way I’m thinking about this problem is how we’re going to create that kind of content and create those kinds of emotions in matchmade activities. I think that’s the challenge. It’s not how do we change the raid-design philosophy to allow for matchmaking.”

Smith continued by chatting about Bungie’s love of fans using sites to find raid partners:

“I think looking at the LFG [looking for game] – style mechanics is something we absolutely want to do,” he said. “We would love to get to a place someday where you can advertise your intent to people. Where you can say ‘I want to do this. Are you looking to do this with me?’ But we have absolutely no plans to do raid matchmaking at this time.”

Destiny is already lacking heavily in social features and it seems strange to refuse to add matchmaking into raids, considering that in reality visiting a website is essentially the same thing, albeit far slower and more cumbersome. People like myself simply don’t have enough friends playing Destiny anymore to compete in a raid, and being able to at least chat to people and organise a raid group at the tower would be a huge improvement.

Hopefully Bungie can unleash something impressive with the game’s upcoming first expansion.