That's just your opinion man (Destiny)

by General Vagueness , The Vault of Sass, Monday, August 25, 2014, 16:49 (3543 days ago) @ Ragashingo

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.

Maybe that was the idea, but there's a difference between people not wanting to do raids and people not being able to do raids; the latter group are likely to want to do raids regardless, but can't, for whatever reason. No amount of hearing about how awesome raids are is going to help this group.

It'll help them get motivated to find some people to do the raid with. We're not even talking about needing to find a lot of people. Just five.

I can tell you from years of experience-- and not just Customs Night, several other one-time, short-term, and recurring events too-- that five people can be a lot of people to get together.

And if they really can't find the time or people to do a raid this week there's shorter, matchmade activities for them to do. I don't think we've really realized it yet, but once all of Destiny is playable, not just half of one destination, there really will be something for people with of every mood and time constraint to do.

This isn't about that though, this is about people who already specifically want to play a raid.

Ultimately if someone can't find five people and a few hours over the course of months or years there's probably no helping them. At some pint Bungie has to design their game for the people who are going to play it, not the people who aren't.

What does that even mean?