Men_in_Boxes
Banned
There's a degree of truth to your post here.Right off the bat the alpha was doomed, and it had nothing to do with bad graphics, boring gameplay, aim assist or anything like that.
The game is supposed to be team based in trios, yet didnt even do friends codes. So anyone wanting to buddy up with friends had to hope their friends all got codes too. Even going by these GAF threads, not everyone got a code.
So you got a slew of solos playing a game not even meant for solos. So I bet most gamers either just winged it as solo dabbling, or they had a shit time playing with randoms teammates who dont want to go on mic.
In other games and modes, a gamer can totally get by being a lone wolf muting everyone. When most people play TDM, BR or some kind of simple objective mode like domination, you can technically still do great and win the match by kill farming. You can sit back and snipe while racking up kills in TDM or let the rest of the team go through the meat grinder winning domination or hardpoint objective pts.
The counter to it would be...
Bungie knows a high percentage of players queue into team games as solo players. They felt that percentage was so high that it needed to be tested over friend group data.