I want this game to be great. I really do. I want to be able to defend the product, I want to tell people to calm down and have fun with it and that the fun is only going to get more fun with time. I've taken the mild disappointment, the understanding that the game I bought was not the game that was advertised, the knowledge that Joe Staten and Marty both quit, and I've decided that being a positive leader in this game community will make the best out of all of that anyway. The game is good. The mechanics are solid. It's fun. It's not the end of the world. And we can make more fun by being involved as a community. Are you ready for the but? I don't know why no company in existence seems to think this is true, but [i]telling the damned truth when things aren't going well[/i] is a viable solution. Where's 'The players will drive this game'? Where's the promise of social content, why are there things blatantly cut from the game, why do we recieve sections of a story that make no sense together and WHY when we point that out do we receive silence as a response? We bought your product. We will likely buy your DLC under the hope that we'll get what we paid for initially out of it. Isn't that horrible? We're going to, on good faith, buy the DLC in hopes that it might restore the game to what it could have been in the first place. And when it doesn't, we'll look to the next DLC and do the same thing. Is that just the point? It's alright as long as people are buying? Maybe. But that isn't what we all thought Bungie was about. It really wasn't. I know that business is business but holy shit Bungie you have such a loyal community because that community really thought that, at the end of the day, you would make your money off of us and we could give you said money because you would deliver. You didn't. And we're not even saying we're going to never buy your product again because you [i]lied and/or gave us something subpar[/i] we're saying that we want a single open and honest explanation or admission. If we all expected something more than was reality, then just say that. Expectations were too high (advertisement was too awesome). If our impressions that something just isn't right are accurate, then just say that. If you can fix it, just say that. If you can't, just say that so we can accept the game for what it is, and buy the DLC if we want more of the same product rather than hoping it will be what we hoped for. I don't think this is asking too much. Fact is, I would continue to play the game. I would also just know moving forward that Bungie isn't actually capable of making as great a product as they advertise. We kinda got hit with the same thing with Halo 2. This is a trend. So my concrete suggestion/feedback? [b]BE HONEST[/b]. Don't go into damage control mode, don't figure out how to spin market this, don't try to wait out the storm, don't sit in silence until people get tired of shouting at a brick wall, [i]don't do whatever your marketing team is telling you to do in response to this[/i], unless someone in that room has finally gone: [i][b]"OH! WELL WHY DON'T WE JUST SAY WHAT HAPPENED AND WHERE WE ARE AND MOVE ON?"[/b][/i]