Bungie and MS split coming?

[A Black Falcon]

Yeah, MS still has a lot of power over Bungie, but not total control, so that is a difference... but as I said, this stuff always happens, one way or another. This is one of the less damaging such occurances I can think of, really. I mean, normally the way it goes is either 'the founders of the assimilated company quit in unhappiness over what has happened to their studio and subsequently the big company loses the studio's unique qualities' or 'the big company closes the studio, firing everyone'... Bungie was maybe heading towards the first of those (given how with their success the second wasn't exactly likely), but the managed to compromise and end up with this deal. And they still get the first chance at Bungie's games.