It's a team of 300 people operating on a budget of hundreds of millions of dollars working on the sequel/third installment of a game that began development 5-6 years ago. Foh with that pity bullshit. WE PAY THEIR SALARY. Stop pandering to these devs man they are calling themselves AAA and are responsible for the future of not only this franchise but of the Bungie name and history. The less pushback we provide as a community, the more lazy half-assed products we get. When they can sell millions of pre-orders and season passes to chumps like you because you think coding is soooooo hard - there's a problem. Don't be fooled, these people are all passionate and highly skilled. I agree with you in general, it's like when someone says a certain pro athlete pales in comparison to another, it's like yeah okay but they're both A MILLION times better than us and they're in the best league in the country, or world! It's not personal, and I'd say it's WAY less about the actual grunt devs and more about management and the executive departments -blam!-ing up the direction of the game. Whatever the case, this is a AAA title from a AAA developer and they should start acting like they deserve that definition. Cooking a perfect steak is hard too - but if I pay $60 for one and it comes out raw... I'm gonna be pissed! Are you gonna eat it anyways and say "well steak is difficult y'know"....