Copied most of this from a comment I made earlier but I think it bears repeating. My personal theory about why Destiny turned into the clusterfvck that it is now hinges on two points: Activision's rights and powers as a publisher, and poor management on the part of Bungie Studios. Activision makes dumb decisions about what content to publish when, basically controlling how much and which parts of the game are released. Many cry out "Activision is not to blame, their only the publisher, they don't control what gets put into the game" but they forget that as a publisher, Activision is basically funding Destiny, which gives them a lot of say about what content gets released and when. I don't have any proof of this, but my personal hunch is that at one point Destiny was a full game that included content from both The Dark Below and House of Wolves. This included story material that links all three chapters (Vanilla Destiny, DLC 1 and DLC 2). Of course Bungie had already decided that there would be two expansions before the release of Destiny 2, but when it was revealed how much money it would cost to develop two expansions before then, Activision forced Bungie to cut content out of the main game and re-sell it as expansions in TDB and HoW, which is why we probably won't have a full game's worth of content until the 2nd DLC gets released. Then you look at how many people have left Bungie since they put out Halo: Reach. Frank O'Connor, Martin O’Donnell, Joseph Staten, Vic DeLeon, Greg Snook, Glenn Israel, Chad Armstrong, Nathan Walpole, Jason Major, the list goes on. All these people helped make Halo the force of nature it was. Now that they're gone, it kinda feels like there's a talent gap left in their wake. And you could say "well they wanted to move onto other projects" and that's all well and good, but with the budget they have and the gamble they're playing on this "10 year plan" for Destiny, I consider it a management issue that they've allowed so much of their talent leave the company. Failing at that, they should have focused on hiring quality people who had worked on similar projects. I remain open to the idea that this could all be 100% incorrect and that the actual situation of the inner workings of Bungie could be completely contrary to what I've stated here. This is just my personal theory regarding how we've reached the point where Bungie and Destiny currently are. I'm curious what you guys think. Up/ down vote and leave a comment please. :P