European Dead Zone appears in PVP. Widow's Court? There was supposed to be a raid on Mars, too. Guess what the next DLC is rumoured to be? Cabal centric. And concept art occurs in pre-productiion. That was years ago. All of those areas were pushed by the E3 reveal. Why do you think everyone was so surprised to discover they weren't there? Because Bungie didn't bother to tell people they'd cut it. The pretended it was still in the game, because if they admitted they'd butchered the story, sales would've plummeted. So, they lied about it to maintain their initial sales, using hype to make their money before people realised what they had actually done. The story changes were implemented a few months to a year before release. So for three years, they were working in it, with everything in the original prompt, Chicago, Europe, Saturn mixed in there. Why do you think Rasputin plays such a substantial role at first, then quietly disappears toward the end? What about the footage showing the Crow in the Cosmodrome, who was repurposed as the Prince? Or the Stranger, who was meant to be the assistant of Osiris, with Mercury being in the original game as well, but then moved to PVP and ToO. What happened to the dialogue between them? Cayde-6 more or less replaced the Crow. Rasputin was an exo, now he's just a faceless AI with a less than clear role. TTK was being worked on even before vanilla release, because it was partially built from the previous story. The Dreadnaught featured in the final part of the game, with the game itself revolving around preventing Rasputin being controlled by the Hive. You actually had to rescue him from the Dreadnaught. Now all we have is a small attempt featuring Omnigul. This is information gathered from internal sources at Bungiec as well as former employees. They all paint the picture of a massive reboot not long before release, in which the story was completely butchered. Half completed content was cut away and later sold, instead of them finishing it off and then adding it to vanilla. If you want to deny this, go ahead, but you're denying fact. They stripped out the story, stitched bits of it back together, and then figured they could sell on the parts they had removed. Instead of delaying the game, or telling prospective buyers that there were major changes, they maintained the illusion that everything previously stated would be included. Look at the E3 video by comparison, how players enter the game, how many players there are, what happens when the ketch appears. Everything shown was far better than the final product, but Bungie failed to announce that. They still don't admit it. They weren't even happy with the game when it released, and that tells you everything. If you release something for purchase under the pretence of being completed and containing certain content, whilst knowing it is incomplete and lacking, but keep your mouth closed, you are lying to the customer.