If this is true them think of it this way... 1, MS Say screw you we are not selling it back to you, all the key employees leave and form a new company totally independent of MS 2, MS let bungie become independent keeping ful rights to everything halo and get publishing rights on bungie games So #2 Is win/win for both, #1 is Lose for MS win for Bungie Few things that confuse me though frankie has talked about currently working with meter jackson on the halo project why would they be doing this if they were due to split from MS...