A myriad of poor decision from management. 1. Sony sellout using pandemic projections as a baseline was unrealistic. The devs are innocent in this situation. The root of all the problems at Bungie seems to be money or their lack of money. Hence you see massive price increases in expansions and over monetization. Marathon might actually have been a big contributor to that which is what I think falls under poor management decisions. Marathon basically halved their already small pvp team and then needed funding. So bungie knowing they might lose control to Sony if they don’t reach their profit margins has to over monetize Destiny.