Funny how there are like 4 topics trending in different sections of the site and no bungie employee has commented on it

[quote]O’Donnell reacted angrily and believed Activision had overstepped its proper role by assuming artistic control of the trailer music. Ryan, the CEO of Bungie, and management shared his concern and filed a “veto” letter with Activision, which overruled the objection. During E3, O’Donnell tweeted that Activision, not Bungie, had composed the trailer music. He also threatened Bungie employees in an attempt to keep the trailer from being posted online and interrupted press briefings.[/quote] [quote]Meanwhile, O’Donnell argued that the audio work could not be completed until the game was in a bug-free, playable state. He felt the treatment was unfair but said he would continue to work. Members of the team complained that O’Donnell wasn’t contributing as expected, and his presence was frustrating the completion of the audio work. Ryan proposed to the Bungie board that O’Donnell be terminated.[/quote] feel free to say Bungie sold it's soul, but I'd hardly say the man was a hero.

Sounds less like Bungie just gave us the middle finger and more like they were on Marty's side to begin with, but when Activision started putting more pressure on them they simply pulled down their pants and let Activision have their way with them. Marty didn't want to do that and Bungie got scared activision was gonna flip shit or something so they gave Marty the boot. So in conclusion, I do not believe Bungie was being assholes, I believe they were being cowards.

Bungie is now in damage control more once again. This will be deej "in light of recent events bungie has decided to give all current players a legendary emblem and shader for your support " that will calm everyone down. Where are the community managers and the ninjas haven't striked against this post???

I don't get any of this. This was over him not getting his earned stocks. This has nothing to do about you or us. This is about him getting what he's due and what they were trying to hold from him. A little sneaky and devious, but again; it has nothing to do with you or me. He was upset that he didn't get his music in the trailers or 100% full control over music / dialog in game. He created disruptions and they fired him. They tried to go back on the contract and hold his shares, but he sued over it and won. That's what happened.

Damn, shits changed. I wanna know what they're gonna do with that phat stack of Marty's soundtrack for the rest of the franchise. Not releasing that in their later games or at least to the public would be a real butt pounding and huge ass waist of talent

Confirmed! I still don't care!

I had never played Halo and all I heard was how godly it was so I got extremely excited when I found out Destiny was being made Saw the potential this would be the game I would stay up playing late night with friends, the game I would order the best pre order pack available, and wait midnight for release. This would be the game I craved so much to solely play but than..: All that you mention happen sadly the deal with the [b]devil[/b] or better knows as [i]asstivision[/i] and all the turmoil that came with it The fall of a mighty gaming empire fell to its knees after playing puppet to asstivision and their orders after all what do they know all they made is COD SHIT , what do they know about a good game? They turned into something they weren't they abandoned what many people loved about them, so shady as to what they did to the original writer and the music guy all their service and loyalty just to be cast away and treated like shit so they had to leave Can't even imagine how great Destiny would be [b]without[/b] Activision [b]and with[/b] all their original core in tact Wouldn't be here on these forums that's for sure, I'd probably be playing the game, but after all this fallout I'm not motivated more than 1% to play Destiny and its a shame to all the innocent people who created the game and had nothing to do with the drama and to them. I say [b]sorry[/b] Which is why we must [b]keep on[/b] speaking our minds to get what we want an Activision free world no more money hunger people calling shots, and please [b]bungie go back to your roots [/b] Respect and value US. THE GAMERS We want this game to as good as possible and that's why we go to efforts like this one-to wrote this long comment- because of I know 1 thing it's that I WILL NOT take 8-9 more years of this I WONT have it Please Bungie go back to your roots Thank you for reading

Yep. Activision has proven once again that it is a cancer on the industry that needs to be forcibly removed. Sadly there are too many people who will just purchase CoD and all the dlc every year for that to happen (not to mention the fact that they tragically own Blizzard Entertainment). This wouldn't have happened if they'd gone with EA instead. Worst case scenario they may have tried to force Bungie to work in microtransactions on some level, but I'd rather have dealt with that then this - what Activision tried to do was akin to the producer telling the director they're wrong and imposing their own will. Imagine if Universal (or whomever really) went up to Steven Spielberg, told him to his face that he was "wrong" and that they were now going to do the film a different way? That's essentially what happened here with Marty and he was right to lose his blam! over it. Yes it's a business and people are in it to make money, but when you sell out your creative integrity for said profits you don't belong in what is at heart, an artistic endeavor. And that's *all* Bungievision seems to give a damn about now, is profit. Wasn't Staten creative director previously? I know he wrote the story, but I could have sworn Luke Smith took over for him after he left - imagine how different things would be. That old E3 demo had so much promise behind it... [b]This is the game we should have gotten.[/b] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIp7vZuYzoA Take note of the classic Halo radar, Dinklebot's much more enthusiastic delivery, and various other improvements that were lost (like simplified upgrade trees for weapons).