I'm not sure, but Sony did pay $3.6 Billion for the studio to help them with their live service push. Thats a lot of money. Bungie were more than likely hoping that their niche extraction shooter, Marathon, was going to carry the financial weight, and prove to Sony that they were the Kings of Live Service. Instead, Sony and Bungies' live service offerings, as well as their incubator projects have fallen flat. I can't deny that there is a general malaise amongst the veteran players, especially with what as shown and discussed in the last Bungie Live stream, where the people on the showlooked like they would be more at home at a Destiny wake, rather than try to drum up some community hype and good will towards the latest installment EoF I've seen it referred to as Edge of Failure and Edge of Firing Range or just cancelling my pre order. Microsoft did it with Halo and gave it 343 Studios. I'm not even sure what would happen if they gave D3 to Santa Monica Studios or even Guerrilla Games. As a casual solo player, I'll be skipping this installment as it feels like less playing the game and making core gameplay based in the menus, unless Uncle Sony gives me a license in my free monthly games. D1 was home, D2 had its highs (Forsaken) and lows (destroying the tower, removing gear and powers, Sunsetting, CoO, Warmind), but never re-captured the lightning in a bottle, IMHO