Dear Bungie, Now that this guy is done slobbering over you like its amateur hour at IGN.... heres the fact. You created a sub par release by doing SIX major things wrong that you know you should not have. And it all in the end boils down to working on ONE project for far to long and not stepping back to pay attention to the details it feels like. 1. A horrible prologue to your franchise story that was short, lacked substance, had no character arch, lacked a hero, friends, or even any interesting points save possibly the trip to the awoken; and also had no sub plots or occurances of interest to hold the player to his new world you created. 2. You released with no in game support for clans. Serioulsy... like none.... its damn embarassing in a gaming world where EVERY game has something to socialize and organize a player base for raids and grouping. 3. You created a world that is 7 years to late and is completely non intereactive, nor random, nor living. It is always the same and gets very boring after 20 hours. There is no variation, and no interesting random moments outside a repetitive 4 types of public events. Hell, even Guidwars had better public events. 4. You pigeon holed your player base into farming for items and points to get items; and then limited the amount of points to trade for items to LESS than is required for ONE item each WEEK!! All instead of allowing us to get into creating items merging items, or otherwise bringing diversity to a level and stat based game. 5. You made a game so repetitive you can literally watch movies or be on the phone while playing because every time your Ghost stops to scan, here come the waves.... There is absolutely no skill in the PVE of this game at all. 6. You have the power of Next Gen consoles at your finger tips and half a BILLION dollar franchise budget and you pushed ABSOLUTELY NO GAMEPLAY ENVELOPES. Nothing new we havent seen 1000 times in other shooters and HALO.... PS Your PVP is fun but you need the ability to take down vehicles. PSS Way to come out the gate with your new flagship tip toeing through the doorway instead of coming out strong like a company that has put one of the defining franchises into the world before.... right now you are the equivilent of the Speaker in your game.... completely useless, timid and taking credit as a leader for doing nothing but existing. Your players demand a game of quality.. not HALO in a different package with less story. Thanks for very little overall. Here is hoping my faith and the faith of other gamers is actually well placed in you still. This was disappointing. Sincerely, The writer who could have given you a better, longer story, for cheaper.