You think matchmaking is the solution. Ok after reading your post I can see why. However, the world has moved on since Halo 3 and it ain't as pretty. They'll be trolls out there... Everyone who posts an anti - Matchmaking post is an elite bastard who doesn't understand our pain. Isn't that a bit unfair when their argument has just as much validity. Here's a couple of tales of my experience MM from the Heroic Weekly. Got to the boss on Winters Run, a fairly easy strike with void burn to boot. These guys I was MM with were pretty ok but one guy obviously thought he had an invincible buff on because he ran into the middle of the arena....and promptly died. Other guy decided he would run a suicide misson to rescue our fallen comrade... and then also died. There was no way in hell I could reach them in the middle of a group of adds with Arkon stomping around. So I ended up soloing it from that point on. That was the first tale. The second was much more horrible. I ended up MM to a duo, one of which was the biggest tit I ever had the misfortune of playing with. He clearly thought it was hilarious to run into a room full of adds on Will of Crota of all strikes. Kept dying so his mate and myself would have to revive him. I might have lived with that but nearly every time Tit's mate went to rescue him, he also died. So I had to keep clearing before I could revive them both. In all honesty I should have left but I had faith they would be a lot more alert when we got to Omnigul. I was wrong. It got worse. I ended up more or less soloing the boss fight because Tit and his friend had gotten themselves killed in the most awkward of places you could think of. Tit messaged me half way through which considering how busy I was didn't read until after I'd completed the strike. It read "hurry up" . I replied in case he hadn't noticed I more or less carried them both through it. He then called me a pussy and said they were having fun playing it their way, after all we were all 32's. I ended this brief exchange with that this "pussy" got nearly all the kills and didn't die once. Enjoy your strange coins, you didn't earn them. The point to all that. The MM lobby want to raid with the likes of that every week? What you all seem to forget is most of the regular raiders use LFG and will continue to do so if MM is implemented, optional or not. They want a team they can rely on, not a random idiot who can't walk up the stairs without summoning the Oversoul. Whether you like it or not the whole team needs a mic. How many will come equipped with one on a MM raid? Not as many as I would like that's for sure. You talk about MM as the only way to gain friends to play with. I never got one through a MM match or strike. They came from random Tower invites and LFG sites. There is more than one way to skin a cat as they say. Bite the bullet and try LFG or 100. Not every experience I had from using LFG was fruitful I will admit but even so I got a regular circle of friends to raid with out of it. I will end this monologue by saying I am not against MM as long as it's optional. However, be warned everything you wish won't turned out like you think it will.