Edit: you guys are clearly taking the title for more than is meant. I'm not stupid enough to think Bungie was just handed $500M, yes I know Activision holds the key to the money, and no I didn't forget about the damn advertising and development and crap.
It's clearly not going towards getting better equipment to run the game, people are still lagging everywhere I go even when my internet is fine. I understand Bungie uses a weird hybrid system that mixes part-time dedicated servers with authoritative player-to-player hosts and such, but it's obviously not working the way they wanted it to? So if this game has a $500M budget, why can't you spare some cash for upgrading the equipment it's played on?
I would say you could take the money from what you saved by illegally firing Martin O'Donnel, but I'm glad Bungie got -blam!-ed in the lawsuit. You deserve it, Bungie. You're -blam!-ing terrible people.
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The month long vacations they take since maintaining a always online game doesn't warrant constant attention