Sadly, if anything this will tank bugie if that happens unless the company has some extra emergency contract for another job and it's likely they are contractually obligated to focus on this tittle meaning shopping around for a backup contract. It would require Activision to somehow void the contract and even then it would take a while not to mention no one would likely scoop them up if they know they are under contract. They may sink or swim on this one. That's gotta be one of the saddest thoughts I have. The company that made some of my best games of all time being dismantled. It's a hard choice between doing whats right and what you want to do.

I'm in the same boat. I basically own consoles because of Halo. I'm assuming that long term this will balance out. I've played and watched people play far worse games for much longer than this in the hopes that the end result would meet expectations. Destiny is far closer to that objective than those games.

If the story just a had a few more unique objectives they would be sitting pretty right now. I really don't hope they sink on this one but at the same time I can't help being disappointed or maybe mad is a better term. But I have good reason to be mad about the story , they give lots of ammo. I just can't bring myself to see them sink. They are the reason i want to get into the industry. But this is jarring to the point of re-evaluation.

Giving in to pressure from Activision, they deserve to dive dive dive.

That's a ridiculous statement. Likely they are under contract as far as how they talk or make statements about any content related to destiny. They would be risking voiding their contract and would be risking the development costs being dropped on them. Of course they are going to "give in." They agreed to it and if they didn't destiny wouldn't have been made in the first place.