Board Thread:Destinypedia Forum/@comment-24079261-20131127150347/@comment-116693-20131127185853

Possibly; these things always sound great in concept but in first-person shooters, quite frequently, end up just being utter chaos. Jump into a 64-player battle in Battlefield 4 without a squad and you'll see what I mean. Even an 8v8 battle in Halo could sometimes get chaotic if all players were not part of the same clan/group.

After all, there's a reason why in real-life battles since the beginning of war, there's always a commanding officer in the back getting constant status updates, reading maps, directing troop movements, and monitoring the changes in the situation. If you look at pro players, even a 4-person team has a coach with a headset that fulfills this function. So any large-scale multiplayer battle in a video game would need somebody (or possibly an AI) to do this.

Otherwise, smaller battles with only a few players to a team/squad allow for more directed and strategic play, and therefore more fun for players, I think :-)