Guys look Some companies gone on strike other threaten to quit. The key in this is getting the public or stock holders to crap there pants and put pressure on the company to give the workers 25% of what they want. 1. Bungie leaving mircosoft would be a disaster. Because if they were unable to take all of the vital people who make halo games they would be screwed. Think Halo with crap music or Halo with crap graphics ECT Second Mircosoft puts a lot of money into advertisment and that is the key to the sucsess of the halo games. 2. The halo story goes on. If you read the forth book you will see the last of the Spartans were trapped on the fourrunner shield planet. Did you take a good look at the halo 3 ending (No spoiler). Eric Nylund is Packed with halo story line and could shape the next game if the writers were to leave (he is microsoft not bungie). and on Graphics, When you owner your own island you can buy nice things like cliff B to do a halo game. Even though i am not a Gears of war fan. 3. Lets go back to the pressure! Boardroom guys don't play Video games they only know that things have been good so far so there fear will force microsoft to chip off just a little more of the crumb cake (Just a little) [Edited on 10.03.2007 11:43 AM PDT]