There would certainly be riots. I don’t believe Bungie would be bothered by a decreased player base though. I think their arrogance is the primary reason for the state of the game currently. They have developed this really inappropriate authoritarian parenting mentality in regards to allowances for player progression, which is a little psychotic. Where most developers ask themselves what they can do to improve player experiences? Bungie asks, what can we do to slow the player’s progression down. The fact that they’re self publishing now means they’ll probably have to utilize more micro-transactions and enhancement cores happen to be a sought after material that doesn’t effect progression in the PvP realm. They clearly don’t care about our opinions of the current state of the game.