Before I say anything about this, I want to give credit to Tlohtzin Espinosa and Owen Spence for working so hard on this soundtrack. Everything in this post will be their words taken from the reddit post. I merely want to give this topic as much attention as possible, as it deserves it. [quote]MotS (short for Music of the Spheres) was completed on December 10th, 2012. It was ready to be released as a standalone suite of music before Destiny would release to build hype and increase potential game sales. But that didn’t happen. We move ahead to E3 2013. Destiny was no longer just an idea. Destiny was a game now, and was ready to make its world debut as such. Bungie, internally, were pretty stressed about the trailer they had to prepare. To get to what's important, Activision replaced all of the audio work Marty and Mike had prepared for the trailer with their own music and voicework. I believe the game sound effects were untouched, it was JUST the voicework and the music. I'll have to reread the court document to confirm that, but for now I'm pretty sure on that minor detail. Marty was pissed, to say the least. He tweeted during E3 that the music was not his and brought it up in press briefings that his music was replaced. It can absolutely be considered an overreaction. It was ONE trailer, to be fair, and all of his other work in the actual game made it in, untouched. Marty brought up his frustrations with Bungie higher-ups and they sent a veto letter to Activision which was denied and rejected. Activision is the publisher and they DO have the right to final say, as they are the ones who fund the game and publish it. But Marty O'Donnell was still concerned about their authority over creative decisions. Marty did more "questionable" things over the next year. Bungie began a search for a publishing partner in 2013 to release MotS, which they cancelled. I don’t know why they cancelled it, all I can say is that the court found evidence to say that they were using the publishing of MotS as "leverage" over Marty. I can NOT say this is true, to be fair. It is what the court said, but that doesn't make it true when they say there was just a small bit of evidence to support it. Marty O'Donnell was fired on April 11th, 2014. Bungie sued him later on for copyright infringement, and Marty sued them back about unpaid wages. That court battle was painful for both sides, and was settled in September of 2015. Marty O'Donnell won everything he asked for. That is the end of the official MotS story, but that was the very beginning of what became over a year-long journey for me, and several others. My name is Owen Spence. I have been bullied and harassed for 10 years now because I have Tourette's and Autism. It got so bad that I could not go to school anymore around a year ago. I read through the court document about O'Donnell v. Bungie in sheer boredom and I read one single sentence out of the entire 59 page document that caught my OCD attention. 40 minutes of the MotS suite was used in the first Destiny game. That meant, in a sense, that 40 minutes of the music was on my Xbox console, sitting in Destiny game files. After 6 months of looking through those files I posted "Music of the Spheres: 40 Minute Edition". To be clear, as I figured out, there is more than 40 minutes in public view. The 40 minute thing is ONLY referring to the Destiny game disc. So, I believe there to be all 48 min for reasons of leaks and BTS stuff. To celebrate this one year anniversary I have written a thank you note, with some clarification that I hope will clear some things up. One final note, please don't argue over who was "right/wrong" in the whole Marty v. Bungie thing. This is about music and passion, not a lawsuit. Listen to MotS and understand. Close your eyes, and picture as you listen the epicness Destiny was as a concept, is as a game and a community, and will be again. Imagine if you will, that this music is telling you a story. Let the story enlighten you, and theorize about what the story is. My version of the story will never match yours, so let me know what stories you picture with this. After all… I got into music because I wanted to tell stories. Thank you.[/quote] -Owen Spence I, as well as many other guardians out there, are deeply devoted to this amazing soundtrack and we all want bungie to release the full masterpiece. Anything you do to bring bungie's attention to this will be helpful. Heck, I'd even pay full price for this album, I just want to hear the work and love that was put into this soundtrack when the game was merely an idea and was based off the patterns of the universe itself. Thank you in advance for any support you give. -IsolatedSystem