Seen a lot of people seemingly confused as to why Bungie is 99.9% radio silent about Destiny. Bungie has finite manpower and their promises to Sony about their profitability are coming home to roost. That means Bungie [b]needs[/b] all hands on deck to get Marathon up and running. I'm sure they can plead ignorance if and only if Marathon exists but isn't as profitable as they thought, while failing to deliver the game at all would be much worse legally. But it doesn't stop there: hate the portal and think it's killing the game? So do I, but the portal is a bandaid fix. Bungie doesn't have the employees available to introduce or balance new activities, so they force the player to do the balancing on old content. They can't even refurbish old guns and armor into the new tier system, from activities that are currently in the portal. There might seriously be a single-digit amount of people working on Destiny right now. Furthermore, those of us who pay attention to behind the scenes activity know that a bunch of senior-level employees left as soon as their shares were vested, which only had immense values after the Sony deal, dealing further damage to the employee tally and to the clarity of direction of the game. As much as I absolutely hate the current direction, I have some hope that Marathon will launch, and then Bungie can go back to developing the game with an existing dedicated playerbase. I don't care how dead the game is player count-wise, unless the servers shut down and the studio closes, people will come back.