I comes down to sales forecast and what they tell share holder. $325M is a huge number, but the press kept saying the spent $500M on the game which is a huge shortfall. $325 translates to 5.25M copies at an average price of $60.
The financial analyst where saying that the game would have no problems selling 13.5M copies. That falls real short of expectation.
I don't know who is to blame for that. Activation or Bungie. Lets face it, the story is real boring. Nothing fun happens until level 20 and after that it is a pretty repetitive grind. How many time can we do the same friggen strike. I'm rather tired of beating the Arkon priest ass. It seems like I do the same 3 for tiger strikes all the time.
Never did the VOG because my scheduling does not align with people, there is no match making and it takes too fuking long. I bet there a couple million people that play game that fit in the category that didn't bother with the game when those restrictions were announced. Is bungie or Activition responsible for those decisions? I suspect bungie so they screwed up.