Destiny can be played on your own. But like so many games lately, it is an experience best played with others. If you don’t have a group of friends to play with on a regular basis, the game will match you with others. However, even the studio knows that matchmaking isn’t ideal.
Speaking to VG247, Community Manager David “DeeJ” Dague explained that the Destiny community has always been integral to the game’s success:
Bungie has always enjoyed a strong, active symbiosis with the player. Even when the community was hosted offsite, the Bungie Weekly Update began as a Friday afternoon strafing run on fan forums. There are Team Leads at the highest levels of the Bungie org whose origin stories started as players of our games. As far back as Myth, the community has enhanced Bungie games with their own contributions. They’ve been a crucial part of the development process for longer than most of us can remember.
The community always engineers the best solutions for bringing players together. While Matchmaking is a great resource for introducing total strangers who can share a Crucible match or a Strike, we believe there’s no substitute for a pre-made team. The most challenging activities in Destiny require communication and teamwork.
When like-minded players with complimentary [sic] play-styles seek each other out and make an expressed commitment to work together, the results are so much better than when they meet anonymously through a matchmaking algorithm. In our experience, enabling smaller clusters of players to support each other is far more effective than trying to create a system that works for everyone.
I think this is fairly common sense. Of course people who get along well and have complementary play styles will have a better experience than those who play with randoms. I think this is the ultimate problem in the online gaming space – an increasing number of games have co-op or multiplayer elements. However, not everyone has a reliable group of friends to play with on their platform of choice. As a result, games need to have algorithms to match people together. Unfortunately, that experience will never be as good as playing with actual people you know and like. This problem isn’t unique to Destiny – the same goes for Evolve and even to a certain degree with Helldivers. Any game that requires teamwork will be better if you actually feel like a team.
Last Updated: March 27, 2015
Admiral Chief
March 27, 2015 at 08:40
Reliable + friend + gamer = DOES NOT COMPUTE
It is one of those triangle things where you can only choose two…
Jaded_Reprobate
March 27, 2015 at 08:41
I don’t know so much… Reliable and gamer don’t seem to mix too well either, there are the exceptions of course..
Admiral Chief
March 27, 2015 at 08:44
Reliable friend yes, friend gamer yes…
Jaded_Reprobate
March 27, 2015 at 08:45
reliable gamer not so much…. can’t have a 2 sided triangle
Admiral Chief
March 27, 2015 at 08:47
Only if you view it from the side perhaps
Hammersteyn
March 27, 2015 at 08:44
No it’s one of those things where you start a Whatsapp group to play Destiny with a drunk, a serbian boxer, a guy who never sleeps(almost plays till after one everynight), another guy who only really plays COD online, then aonther one who can only play after 21:00 or else he gets beaten and to round it off one who could never quite master the jumps in Destiny. Throw them all together and it’s like the A-team, tohugh not quite as good.
Admiral Chief
March 27, 2015 at 08:46
*though
Jaded_Reprobate
March 27, 2015 at 08:47
Like this ?
Hammersteyn
March 27, 2015 at 08:52
XD
Ir0nseraph
March 27, 2015 at 09:16
Yeah now if some people can actually go home one day , we might get started with some gaming again.
Sageville
March 27, 2015 at 09:23
Yeah that guy is the worst, I mean who travels without their PS4??
Ir0nseraph
March 27, 2015 at 09:26
XD
Hammersteyn
March 27, 2015 at 09:32
Soon……
Hammersteyn
March 27, 2015 at 08:45
Destiny is like milk. It’s been out in the open too long and has gone sour because the def didn’t quite follow the long life recipy
Blood Emperor Trevor
March 27, 2015 at 08:46
All these games requiring pre-made teams in order to live up to their potential (I’m looking at you Evolve) ignore the average age of gamers being around 30. There’s this thing called real life, which has “responsibilities”.
Captain JJ the damned
March 27, 2015 at 08:53
Alien Isolation is 75% off on Steam O_o
Hammersteyn
March 27, 2015 at 08:54
Does the price now equal the value that it warants a purchase?
Captain JJ the damned
March 27, 2015 at 08:55
The real question is whether the price warrants a purchase considering my funds.
Hammersteyn
March 27, 2015 at 09:07
Maybe download the Demo first? XD
Captain JJ the damned
March 27, 2015 at 09:08
I really really want it though.
Hammersteyn
March 27, 2015 at 09:32
Yeah me too.
Admiral Chief
March 27, 2015 at 08:57
I got it at 100% off
Captain JJ the damned
March 27, 2015 at 09:00
Yes, but you haven’t even played it yet. ;P
Admiral Chief
March 27, 2015 at 09:05
Yes, there is that too!
Blerrie Child of Light and STALKER and Planetside 2 and Reaper and….
Captain JJ the damned
March 27, 2015 at 09:06
Since STALKER is in that list I can forgive.
But only if you get Call of Pripyat!
Admiral Chief
March 27, 2015 at 09:18
Still enjoying Lost Alpha! Except, there is a quest bug that seems to halt my progress 🙁
I might just explore all I can, and then call it the day. Or look to edit something