His first act as CEO should be to demote Luke Smith, then I'll take him seriously

The only way this helps is if Parsons puts a finger in the face of every remaining developer and community manager and says, "You will not lie to them again." Next, he narrows his gaze on DeeJ and Cozmo and says, "You will have frequent, meaningful, and respectful interaction with this community. A lot of the acrimony that currently exists falls squarely on your shoulders as you did nothing while reckless speculation erupted into forum wars that never had to happen." He will have to be a bit more physical with Luke Smith. Grabbing his collar, and as he proceeds to shake the neckbeard off of Luke, he growls, "You are to never utter a word on behalf of Bungie in public ever again. EVER!" Luke needs to be wiping the spittle from his face when Parsons gets done. "Lars," warns Parsons, "if you ever stealth adjust connections again, you'll find a stealth pink slip in your final check." I think that would be a good start.

Harold Ryan was the CEO, the man running things and ultimately everything that happened with the game and the studio itself falls heavily upon his shoulders. There were so many different ways for him to approach a situation, so many other choices that could have been made, things that only he had the power to control or direct. And yet in the end, he failed to do so. In Japan, if a business suffers or makes horrible decisions that impact its reputation or integrity, its common for those in charge to step down to accept the blame. Though, in this sense, Luke Smith and a few others should have vacated their positions as well. At any rate, with a new leader taking the stage this doesn't really change anything. Pete isn't going to wave a wand and magically make all of the problems go away. Its going to take a great deal of work and effort on his part as well as the rest of the studio to do what is required to regain the trust and faith that has been lost. And sadly, for many in the community that ship has long since sailed. Honestly? I'm still trying to figure out why Luke Smith is even apart of the development process. The dude was originally a Kotaku Editor who used to make a living basically doing what all the rest of us have been doing on here, giving feedback and being critical about the games. Then he gets a job offer from Bungie and gradually ends up getting a leadership position? Seriously? I've gone looking, done the investigation trying to find out what qualifies him for that position. I'd love to see Alex Seropian suddenly appear back at Bungie... (Yeah, I wasn't kidding when I said I was a LONG TIME Bungie fan for years. You know they've really screwed up big time when someone like me is disgusted with everything that has happened. But would they care about how their long time fans feel? Judging by everything we've seen, I'd say not...)

You know, when Presidents/CEOs step down, [i]they[/i] usually say a few words. When their replacements say a few words, they were probably fired.

HOMIE GOT REKT!

Yes! guys this is good! Harild Ryan was a dick! he didnt give a shit of the original bungie roots just money! HE WAS THE ONE WHO SUGGESTED FIRING and FIRED OUR BELOVED [b][u][i]MARTY O'DONNEL[/i][/u][/b] THIS IS A VICTORY! Just like the last CEO of Xbox was dumb af and wanted TV, TV and more TV and kinect, and MONEY ONLY this new one is all GAMES GAMES GAMES! the new CEO is better the old one only cared for MONEY from DLC and Microtransactions! remember Marty remember Joe Staten remember the few the originals, the ones eith heart

If Mr Pete Parson want us to take him seriously and he really aims good things for the future of Destiny his first actions needs to fire the a..holes that did nothing to the game other then hurting it : Luke Smith for his terrible decisions , unrespectful and ungrateful attitude Deej for doing nothing other then getting paid. That Nerf God whom has 0 idea about Balance

I still can't imagine how they felt the original supercut by Staten was bad, and what they've given us instead is somehow better. I would have much rather gone with the original story that focused heavily around Rasputin & the Hive - it made WAY more sense for one. I mean seriously, seeing as we have a relatively secure city, and (at the time the game starts) the Hive are largely dormant under the moon and it's really just the Fallen scattered about on Earth, why *wouldn't* getting Rasputin back be priority one? HE CONTROLS ALL OF OUR GODDAMN GOLDEN-AGE DOOMSDAY WEAPONS. THIS IS A FREAKING NO-BRAINER. Retaking the planet (and defending it) would be a hell of a lot easier with a network of space weapons >_> But no, instead we piddle about some convoluted nonsense with the Vex, while casually faffing about with the other 3 aliens (let's not forget that the Cabal are supposedly some badass empire that casually destroys entire planets and moons, yet our guardians somehow crap all over them?) Really hoping for big changes going forward, starting with some consistency with the lore. [b]Crota killed over 1000 guardians in ONE BATTLE, FOR FUN.[/b] But we beat his ass in with a fireteam of 6? OK then.... Nevermind that Oryx is supposed to be even more powerful than Crota, and has Taken hundreds of worlds under his influence and comes into our system on what's essentially a Hive Deathstar. Oh but once again "Guardian Team Six" saves the day.

Bump

he enjoyed his 1 month vacation so much he decided to take a permanent one.....he's taking all the micro transaction money with him, and leaving his monkey interns behind to work on the game for just a penny a day.....

Well this is definitely a turn of events. We'll see how the game progresses in the future, though. As none of us are Bungie employees, none of us can speak to the character of any of these people. The former CEO clearly thought he was making the right decisions, and we can't say one way or the other how those decisions affected the company internally. If the game's story had struck me as "campy" as I've heard the PROPOSED reasoning to be, I also would have pushed for a change. Letting Staten go altogether? I'm honestly not sure how that went nor is it my concern, and thus that's my opinion on the matter. Chopping up the Destiny release to be spread out definitely didn't help it, however. There's been a tide of complaints in regard to content since the game's release and its certainly one of my major gripes. It's highly likely this man is still on as a consultant, as he's obviously developed relationships with the rest of the brass of Bungie and probably made sound decisions in the past. Anyone who thinks he's not getting Bungie money still is delusional. I am excited for future Destiny development, but I always was. It's the lacklustre delivery that kills this title for me. If one man's replacement really turns this whole game around then I'll honestly be a little disappointed not a single person in the building was able to acknowledge their broken jigsaw puzzle of a game. Definitely worth keeping an eye on Bungie for future development. But that's kind of why we're all here in the first place right?

It would be nice to edit your post and add a link, so others can see that it wasn't made up. [url]https://www.bungie.net/7_Bungie-Studio-News/en/News/News?aid=14282[/url] There are people who won't know how to find it, plus, it is just a nice thing to do for others, so as to make it easier to directly read it for themselves. In other news: [url=https://uk.news.yahoo.com/destiny-2-reportedly-delayed-beyond-163716201.html]Destiny 2 reportedly delayed beyond planned September 2016 launch[/url] Hopefully this is a sign of some real changes. Of course we will have to wait to see for sure. Still never going to pre-order anything until they prove to me that they can be trusted.

He made the big bucks, time to bail and let somebody else deal with the turd he left behind.

Was he the one that suggested rift for Iron Banner was a good idea :-)