That's just your opinion man (Destiny)

by Ragashingo , Official DBO Cryptarch, Friday, August 22, 2014, 09:20 (3546 days ago) @ kapowaz

Oh, I 100% agree. I think the decision to support matchmaking has to come first, and then inform the design goals of Raids from then on out. What appears to have happened with Destiny is the reverse, though: the design goals of Raids came first, and they then realised that this wouldn't work with matchmaking.

Nah. I figure it was a combination. "Let's build some really challenging stuff for the hardcore players." And that informed both the design and the lack of matchmaking. My guess is that they hope word spreads about how awesome the raid was and more and more players will branch out and attempt it with friends. This would be helped if the raid is part of the (side)story. I'd object to putting it in the main story, but having it as a nagging... Well there's still THIS unsolved mystery... status would be neat.