No DLC Maps (Destiny)

by RC , UK, Sunday, March 22, 2015, 16:52 (3782 days ago) @ Cody Miller

Why doesn't Bungie do what they did with Halo 3, and roll them into the rotation if everybody in the game has them?

Uh... you do remember how that didn't work, right?

How did it work? Did it match you and then check? Or did it check during matchmaking to only pair you with DLC owners before the map was decided?

In non-DLC-required playlists, it was match first, then check if everyone has the maps. Of course, if even 1 person didn't have it, they never showed up. Particularly debilitating for BTB.

There was of course DLC-required playlists, which always suffered from being under-populated.

Reach included a weighting in it's matching algorithms that tried to put you with other players that had DLC too, but other factors came first.

Since there is a strong network effect to the value of PvP maps (more people have them, the more often you see them, the better skills and connection matches you get) I really think they should be given to everybody that plays. That does mean the business model would need to change, of course.