Speaking from personal opinion, I would imagine that there definitely was some impact. I just cannot make the logical deduction, though, that the entire franchise is going to be bent and discarded because of it. From a conceptualization point of view, more of the story exists than we have obviously been told. In a portion of the industry that is about delivering artistic content, the concepts would almost have to predate breaking ground on what would become the official product. That being said, when anyone of a high-profile leaves a team, there is a void to fill. Whomever is brought in is going to make changes, and that is a given. Whatever the scope of those changes are or will be, though, is something that we can only speculate about. Even in a worst case scenario, that content had to be changed to accommodate for a larger change in the narrative, it would be something that would be addressed before the next major release, in terms of giving us a more unifying experience. The DLCs are simply not part of that picture, in my opinion. I believe that they are more about providing side-content and minor narrative that are not about the progression of the main storyline. Instead, I would expect to see the disjointedness that we definitely do see in the base game, to start being turned around in the Comet - assuming that is the next major release. Interesting point... Urk had tweeted not to believe everything you see in that slide going around, but when asked if the Comet was something that Bungie was still looking to do, he said that it was. Read into as much as you would like, but to me, it implies that he is not disputing the fact that those items are coming, rather that the details around them are not accurate (any more, assuming that they were valid, at one point). https://twitter.com/UrkMcGurk/status/554862266277838848