Destiny's competitive multiplayer mode The Crucible and its cooperative Strike missions offer matchmaking to help you find other players, but the game offers no such feature for the difficult, high-level raid Vault of Glass.
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The raid only allows a partied, organized team to enter together. Bungie's thought process has been that a randomly composed group thrown into the gauntlet through matchmaking would not have the planning or strategy to succeed. This choice excludes players unable to gather a group of high-level friends (who can all commit the same hours to a run) from attempting the Vault of Glass entirely.
Bungie has been listening to feedback, however, and will consider raid matchmaking for those frustrated at being unable to experience what is generally agreed to easily be Destiny's best portion:
"The Raid was designed for solid teams of killers who have made a commitment to solve a dense and explosive riddle," Bungie wrote in its weekly update. "Most of the raiding parties who have emerged victorious from the Vault of Glass have sworn that one weak link would have doomed their chain. There have been other stories, of course. We've heard tell of Guardians who met each other just outside the door that leads into that vault. Strange tales have reached our ears - tales of total strangers who have banded together to see the Raid all the way through to a triumphant finale.
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"Those stories surprise us, but the players of our games always have. The best I can do to answer your question is to let you know that you've been heard. We're having conversations about how Matchmaking might support the more challenging activities in Destiny. It's a start. Keep sounding off about it, and maybe someday some matchmade Fireteam mates will hear you, too."
The design philosophy makes sense--organized, strategic teams are more likely to succeed in this challenge. But this has inevitably locked players out from ever attempting the raid, as many players simply don't have a handful of friends who have the game--organizing a time for everyone to jump on and play is even more difficult. If players are willing to try the raid with a match-made team (and as stated, the results of strangers working together can be surprising), I say Bungie lets everyone go for it.
