Bungie signed the Activision contract. Anyone not happy with that arrangement has already left Bungie (Stanton & others). Therefore, everyone currently at Bungie is fully aware and not being "made" to do anything they did not want to do.
The age of "Halo Bungie" is gone. The age of "Bungievision" is at hand.
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Still, Bungie themselves as developers wouldn't chop up contents if they can have their way. Sadly Activision seems to be the only publisher who offered a big enough deal so Bungie can make the game they wanna make.
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If Bungie was serious and cared about the game and wanted to make it what it was said to be, I'm sure they would have passed on activision, or had a detailed contract. Greed was their only motivation, if they were still the artists they were in halo days, they wouldn't have signed with the devil.