Maybe I shouldn't bring attention to the fact that I am a loner on Live, but I'm finding it next to impossible to find people to play ODST's Firefight mode together.

I don't understand why Bungie didn't include a matchmaker, such a simple little tool that most of us FPS/Multi freaks take for granted. Oh, I found Bungie's reasoning, but in reality it's just frustrating. If you don't have 3 dedicated or 10 revolving friends to play Firefight with, then you're handicapped.

I have had the game for weeks now and haven't been able to play Firefight. I finally decided Gamespot wasn't the place to look for Fighters, so I logged on to the Bungie.net ****fieds forum. You wouldn't believe how clogged it is with Firefight/ODST requests. Bungie didn't include matchmaking and cited a more "personal" experience for it, but in reality the MM just has to occur on a website instead of in-game, and with just as many strangers.

Hmmm, maybe they thought it would sell like the Bible and everyone would own a copy?

I'm not buying it. Bungie's excuse OR the game (I Gamefly'ed it). Thanks a lot, Bungie.