I just read the entire legal document O.o In conclusion: Early on in the creation of destiny, Bungie suggested Marty make the soundtrack in advance rather than throughout the duration of the game, they also proposed to release this soundtrack as a separate product, titled "Music of the Spheres". Marty thought this was awesome and got to work making the soundtrack. As time passes everyone is happy with the music and bungie makes arrangements to present the music along with the game at E3, including a trailer for the game with said music. Activison interferes shortly before release and takes over the creation of the trailer, electing to use their own music in favour of Music of the spheres. Marty is upset with this and argues activision is overstepping its boundaries by interfering with creative content, he claimed this was in order to protect Bungie's reputation and to ensure Activision does not meddle too deeply in the creative aspects of the game. CEO Harold Ryan shares his concerns but activison reject their concerns. Marty posts on his twitter that the music in the trailer is not his and threatens bungie employees in an attempt to prevent it from being widely noticed. Activision warns that they aren't happy with his behaviour and suggest firing him, CEO Harold Ryan agrees but such action is not taken. At the same time Bungie has made little progress with publishing Music of the Spheres as a seperate product, which also infuriates Marty. He becomes less focused on his work as a result, being distracted by efforts to publish Music of the Spheres. However Bungie still makes no effort to release it. As time passes he becomes less productive and other audio staff comment that he is becoming a nuisance. Bungie arranges his termination for summer 2014. Marty argues that it does not give him enough time to finish the game's audio as he cannot do it until the game is in a bug-free, playable state and that his treatment was unfair. Other members of the team complain that his presence is becoming outright detrimental to audio production and Bungie proceeds to fire him, also withholding his company shares and pushing him out of the payment policy they had in mind for destiny. Marty sues for various reasons following this termination (I really can't be bothered to go into all the details). Bungie counter-sues for various reasons. The end result is that Bungie is ordered to give Marty a considerable portion of his shares in light of his great contribution to the company over the years and Marty is ordered to return all destiny and music of the spheres related stuff. My synopsis: Marty was really excited by the idea of music of the spheres being publish as a cd track. So much that he poured all his passion into making the music. Then when Activision decided not to use the music for promoting destiny he grew upset, feeling that his work was going unappreciated and that Activison had little to no interest in the concerns of Bungie as a developer. (Here's a key point) [quote]According to O’Donnell’s view, the “Band of Brothers” ethos that had inspired the group’s earlier work was being damaged by the Activision relationship.[/quote] He tries to defend his work and the Bungie creative process from activison (Albeit rather excessively) but they simply brush it off. On top of this Bungie isn't making an effort to publish the Music of the Spheres as he hoped. He worries that all his hard work that he was really passionate about is going to go unappreciated in favour of activision's "cliche shooter" style. Bungie is unhappy with his attitude and he is unhappy with their willingness to roll over for activison. As time passed he grows less passionate about the game to the point where he becomes a detriment to its production. Bungie fires him (which is fair enough) but decides to withhold as much money/shares of his as they can. He is upset and sues. Please read this cause it took sooo long to type.

Fired him without reason, didn't want to pay his vacation then also tried to steal his shares? That's pretty low of Bungie, the article also confirms that Activision had a bigger artistic influence in Destiny than previously acknowledged. The story being chopped up causing the head writer to leave theory has much more credibility now.

Dude he had a -blam!-ing temper tantrum like my 5 year old does because they wanted different music in a trailer, not the whole game mind you but a -blam!-ing preview and he acts like its the end of the world

Spare me your drama. Yes Activision are greedy. Yes an employee got canned. Yes Bungie went about it poorly. Yes the dude had his day in court and won. Move the hell on. None of this changes my love of this game. If others feel this is some sort of last straw then leave the forum. Stand up and do something. Otherwise this is all lip service and self righteous posturings. Finger wagging does nothing guys. Disgruntled employee court proceedings happen all the time in the games industry and every other industry. It's a game guys. It's a game. Let the flames begin... Lol

Sounds like Marty cared more for his music than Destiny or Bungie. Threatening other Bungie employees...wow. Employer right to Terminate but wrong to take away shares and his employee rights. So all in all, they all looked shitty to me.

HOW CAN NOBODY UNDERSTAND THAT COMPANYS ARE LITTERALLY TRYING TO MAKE MONEY? WHY WOULD THEY MAKE DESTINY IF THEY WERENT GOING TO MAKE MONEY???? THEY DO CARE ABOUT THE -blam!-ING GAME BECAUSE THE HAPPIER THEIR PLAYERS THE MORE MONEY THEY MAKE. WHY THE HECK DO YOU THINK DLCS COST MONEY??? IF YOU WERE THEM YOUD WANT TO MAKE MONEY TOO INSTEAD OF SPEND SO MUCH TIME ON VOLUNTEERING FOR A CRAPPY COMMUNITY WHO COMPLAINS ON EVERYTHING THEY DO. -End rant

In conclusion: - Man is angry at Activision for overstepping their bounds in not using his music in a single E3 trailer, in his opinion. Bungie supports man, but Activision overrules anyways. - Man gets fired for a history of poor and disruptive behavior based on creative differences in response to Activision. Activision threatened continued behavior would jeopardize their contract with Bungie (which Bungie needed to make this game we all love). - Bungie's board fires man for his disruptive behavior and poor workplace performance, echoed by his coworkers. - Bungie does the wrong thing by not giving him his owed vacation time and company shares according to his contract. - Separate arbitrations award him his vacation time money and company shares. What part of this has anything to do with us? I think you're stretching a lot.