It's staggering how many BASIC features Destiny is missing at launch... but the biggest offender in my mind is chat. How can you have a massively multiplayer game with NO CHAT?!? What blows my mind even more is how many players are actually defending this by stating that you can utilize methods outside of the game to form groups for raids and missions. I mean, do they hear themselves? If your game has multiplayer as a major feature, why not let people talk to each other IN THE GAME?
If there is no in-game chat, then why do players not have the option to manually opt into matchmaking for EVERY SINGLE mission? (Including raids & strikes)
"But Trev, many things are too hard for random groups to accomplish! Matchmaking wouldn't work!"
I agree! If only there was a way to gather other skilled players to have a chance at conquering content. Oh I don't know, like in-game chat? Why not have both? In-game chat to form skilled parties, and also matchmaking that you have to opt-into. I think I remember them saying something about letting players play the game how they want in the original hypetrain...
With all that said though, I still can't stop playing this time. Destiny's shoes are gigantic, hopefully with time it will grow into them and live up to the crazy potential that it has.