All you kids who never understood what happened here is the rundown. Looking at the past Bungie was bought by microsoft in 2000. Bungie who had been independent had run into financial trouble with the recall of one million of there games they had to reprint as they were defective. That being said Microsoft owned now get this.[b]OWNED THE RIGHTS TO HALO[/b] as it was still in development. Check out the bonus disk for Halo 2. Bungies role was being a developer. Halo went onto become a popular franchise. Now they had two choices when it became clear they were going to be able to become independent again. This was intended not a fluke. So in 2007 they sat down with Microsoft to discuss the terms of there departure. Bungie could have stayed with Microsoft and made Halo but the kicker is they would never be able to make other games. Microsoft can do Halo with any one it chooses. Now Bungie not wanting to let fans down and produce an even better game to boot. Agreed to do two more Halos. ODST and Reach. 343i was created by Microsoft at the time head of Halo Franchise and 343i Frank O'Conner. Bungie made sure they were prepared to take on the role of producing and Deving The Next three Halo games. Now if i were Bungie would i want to slave under Microsoft some more and make Halos or go on to make an original game. Destiny is just that. None of you can get Bungie has moved on from a smaller story and more focused game play around only one person or squad. They could tell the winds were blowing of change and thus left Microsoft to venture out on there own to make another fantastic game. You wieners and complainers who never did the research really have no idea what is going on. Its like well i could leave this some what great job but i own nothing i make. I have some control and basically this is short term for now. Last thing i need is an iron ball around my ankle and Bungie did just that. They went back out and invented a new game. Trend Makers not Trend Setters. Read up on your history kids. quit moaning about what should have been. Embrace now. The way Microsoft is going be glad that Bungie moved on. Also i want to add that Microsoft is scared of what Bungie will do. From what i see Bungies relationship with them is just about money for Microsoft. Also note that MS will try to Milk the Halo franchise from every angle. So Destiny is more for the fans then really MS to line there pockets.-Brother Fishbowl.