when looking for others to play the raid and using a site or a PSN community/Xbox LFG these people you will find are also randoms...never got this "randoms suck!" sentiment, i´ve played raids from Lineage 2 to Destiny 2 with "randoms" and never had a problem with it. often these randoms became ingame friends.
matchmaking doesn´t have anything to do with playing with randoms...the statement makes no sense and is a slap to the face of people that played everything the game had to offer with randoms. they specifically said everything will be playable with matchmaking, now they did a 180 and for this activity you need to find people. it will lead to the thing that under 5% of all players will experience the raid at all.
frankly, they make it sound like the raid will be a tedious affair if this much planning is involved. i am sure no one wants WoW classic like throwbacks when trying to raid these days...but we will see how it will turn out. if the end of roosevelt island on challenging/heroic is anything to go by, it will feature some really annoying sections.
I think I speak for everyone on #TeamNoMM when I say that our definitions of randos are different.
Matchmaking randoms are truly random. It can be, 90% of the time, someone with no mic just looking to see if they can power through the activity/get carried to rewards.
LFG randoms are random people you can pre screen before getting into the activity. It gives you more control. The big thing to screen here is the thing matchmaking gives you no filter for. Mics. Honestly, that is the MAIN difference between LFG and Matchmaking. Beyond that you can screen for quality but the communication is the main thing matchmade groups nearly all fail at.
This is like buying a cheeseburger with expensive beef and then being given two slices of bread and nothing else. Then being told we decided it was for the best if it didn't have meat after you ordered it, we think that's better for everybody. And then other people in the restaurant come up to you and say, you don't really want that meat after all, it would spoil the burger.
So here you sit, having eaten the bread and spent your money but still hungry. Maybe next time you'll order from a different restaurant and they'll serve what's advertised.
I mean if we are going for analogies...
Imagine you are trying to build an addition to your house. You want to hire some contracters. But luckily for you, and for your convenience, there is an app you can use that will assemble a team for you. You press it.
Your team is a mailman, a cop, a telemarketer who doesn't speak your language, and a 16 year old grocery store clerk.
I mean eventually you guys might figure out how to build this house, but its gonna take much longer than it should. You would be pretty confused why this app gave you unqualified people.
Your neighbor on the other hand made a listing that he wanted 2 carpenters, an electrician, a painter and a plumber. That is what he got. Might not be a good electrician, but at least its something you can work with.
