I'm not calling time of death. I said Destiny 2's preorder numbers will suffer, not that it will flop. I'm not entirely sure how you read one from the other, but the bottom line is that there are many of us here who will not be putting money down on Destiny until well after reviews are published. That lack of preorders affects people's bottom lines. And you think Bungie just received the full sum of their ten-year salaries as part of this deal? If we're to believe statements from Activision, the $500m covers development, marketing, and likely the production of physical copies, and the dissemination of digital copies. Budgets can change in the real world, and, for example, a shift towards more money for marketing over focus testing and dev resources will impact the game(s) we get. The next two Destiny games are still dependent on live resources across the ten-year contract, so their quality very much has to do with money, especially ours. Luckily, Activision's rolling with it, and they may not hold back in order to ensure the best game possible, but that doesn't sound like the Activision I know. Nothing's black and white, man.