Posted by: SEAL Sniper 9
Posted by: Ancients
I highly doubt we'll ever see matchmaking for Halo 3 ODST's FF. 343 is way to busy working on Halo CEA & 4 to mess around with something like that.
This. Also, I think no FF Matchmaking is better. You're better off playing with a group of friends on your friend's list then randoms. Just my opinion.
No firefight matchmaking absolutely killed the population of people playing firefight. I personally would have played much more ODST except the lack of people to play with. Simply, online matchmaking results in more people playing the game. Sadly ODST requires searching online in various forums for possible people playing firefight, and the arrangement of sessions is too much of needless hassle. Not to mention most people looking to play were/are only interested in completing various achievements.
Firefight matchmaking does not necessarily remove the option of playing with invited people. In Reach there is an online firefight matchmaking yet one can still play custom firefight.