User blog comment:Imrlybord7/Bungie joining Activision/@comment-1375723-20100504234227

"Partnering" is a more accurate term, since Activision didn't acquire Bungie, unlike IW. Basically, only Activision gets to publish all of Bungie's games for the next ten years. If I know Bungie, they would never allow somebody else to interfere with their product. That's why they left Microsoft.

But yeah, I agree with Bord about Kotick. The guy needs to get shot, or better yet, blacklisted.