"A bothersome presence at board meetings". To me that implies he argued strongly against the vile business model now being implemented by Bungie/Activision. You used to hear stories about how Bungie had to fight Microsoft to be able to make Halo the way they thought it should be made. I guess the people who left to continue working on Halo or onto other projects had the swing votes. What I would really like to see is a team of lawyers breaking Joseph Statens NDA. Why exactly did he leave in his own words. I wonder if we could crowd fund that...