[quote]Heres the thing, someone who is willing to go through the oh-so-strenuous task of lifting their phone, leaving a short post on a website and then waiting a few minutes for messages/invites, is also the kind of person willing to utilise their mic. Think of it as a filter for the lazy. [/quote] No one said it was strenuous and your generalizations are wrong at best and assholish at worst. You ever play WoW? People said the same shit about their raid matchmaking system. Guess what? They were wrong. Any raid in WoW was a hundred times more involved than either of these raids. The other thing you and those like you fail to comprehend is that most groups wouldn't be 6 random individuals. How many groups of 4 or 5 would be searching for their last group members? Hell, Bungie could require at least 3 people already be in a fireteam per group. The point is, it exists in other games and Bungie helped pioneer online matchmaking. There's no legitimate reason to not have it. And for you to call people lazy to not want to get on a computer to find a group for a console is -blam!-ing ignorant. You don't know shit about other people's lives and optional matchmaking wouldn't affect you one iota.