How is a single sentence taken out of context from its paragraph not to mention the entire document it originated from a "cherry picked statement"? How about by [i]definition of cherry picking[/i], as used as a colloquialism in internet debate? Not to mention that we already knew that. There is no conspiracy here. Activision was paying their bills (as stated in the court documents, most of their profits were from advances granted by Activision). When Bungie missed the 2013 release date, Activision threatened them with Breach of Contract and set a new timetable for September 2014. Bungie said, "Shit, we can't finish this in time. We'll have to hack it apart and put it back together to make what we already have a full game". Some of the employees (Joe Staten and many others) felt that wasn't good enough, but Harold Ryan knew it had to be done because they would literally be bankrupt if Activision declared Breach of Contract. So Joe and the others left, and we got Vanilla Destiny. There's no conspiracy. Just an unfortunate thing that happened. It happens [i]literally all the time[/i]. It's what happens when you get in bed with a huge publisher like Activision.