Bungie is highly independent, unlike Treyarch and inf ward. They negotiated with activision knowing what they were getting into. Shit, the company has extensive experience with Microsoft. I don't blame activision at all. If anything, since activision and sony made a 10 year kind of investment on this, they're probably concerned about the low metacritic scores and lackluster reviews. Activision thought it was buying into a ten year awesome game too! Bungie just scammed everybody. Destiny was like it was created by rng itself by mixing bits and pieces from other games/movies. It's just a mix of the following: Star Wars (speeders, hunter gear etc.) Halo (titan class, core style fps gameplay) CoD (ads, "relics,") Borderlands (dinklebot, randomized guns with edgy names) District 9 (the fallen, icebreaker design lol) The Matrix and Gandahar (the vex) Mass Effect (in general) 5th Element (the cabal are a mix of the mangalores and mandoshawan) It's like they just threw shit together directly from movies (doesn't even look different) to form a content base made by high quality artists and then just set it to the tune of vanilla WoW. It's not even subscription based, but it feels like it. It's some stitched together weirdness of various "cool" things.