Bungie posted about it. (Destiny)

by Schooly D, TSD Gaming Condo, TX, Wednesday, April 16, 2014, 00:37 (3884 days ago) @ uberfoop

There's no reason to dismiss #6 because the tweet was bitter. We don't know the amounts of money being thrown around -- what Marty was making, what Marty was expecting, or what Marty was offered. If BNG-ACTV said "thanks for the music, by the way we're cutting your salary 25%" you'd be in a situation where both (1) Marty leaves voluntarily, knowing he can get more money elsewhere, and (2) Marty is bitter about it.

If he left voluntarily, it wouldn't be a "Bungie terminated me" situation.

Then it's up to making sense of the "we say goodbye as friends" post from Bungie.

Terminating someone for making an as-of-yet-undisclosed political contribution doesn't really seem like "saying goodbye as friends."

Maybe the meeting about Marty's salary never even happened. Maybe Activision just took a look at it and said "We're paying this one guy how much? And he's the musician? Who even cares about music? We can get a guy for 1/3 the price and only impact our sales by 0.002%" before setting the wheels in motion.

If Bungie is parting with him "as friends," I think that definitely implies money issues. Double so if ACTV is forcing them to drop him.

Someone earlier in the thread mentioned that they don't think Bungie has a board of directors. Could the "Bungie board of directors" be a snide reference to whomever is pulling the strings at Activision?