I appreciate the tone of your reply. It's nice to see that people can have different points of view on this forum without name calling. I understand your point of view and the technical issues you talk about. I've read a lot of this and other threads about this problem. While I am new to gaming I'm not new to Destiny having played for a year (if that makes sense).You must have not read my fourth sentence. My skills are not going to get any better no matter who I play with. I have always advocated playing with better players to increase your skills. I was fortunate,as a young man, to play basketball with an elite group of former college and professional athletes ( one of the was Tim Wilson , Earl Cambell's blocking back with the Houston Oilers). After adjusting to the speed of the game I was able to participate regularly without embarrassing myself and my game got much better. I just think that SBMM benefits the majority of players. I play with 40 year olds who don't go to the Crucible and very young players who don't go to the Crucible because they can't compete with the elite players. ToO is even worse. What's fair about giving us Quests and Bounties we can't possibly accomplish? It seems Bungie favors PvP over PvE. Unfortunately Bungie doesn't share their numbers with us so it's not possible to draw conclusions without facts. I hope Bungie will ignore most of the numerous suggestions on this forum about changing the game. I have some but I'm sure they wouldn't fly so I'll leave it to Bungie to design the beat game they can. I think they have done an extraordinary job.