Maybe this goes deeper (tinfoil hat at the ready...) (Destiny)

by Fuertisimo, Monday, September 29, 2014, 12:33 (3521 days ago) @ Blue_Blazer_NZ

Now, I'm not saying any of this is proven, fact, or otherwise solid truth, but this thread on the Destiny Subreddit is interesting.

I'd like to think most of this is ridiculous...but then again, I'd like to think Bungie knows how to put together a coherent sci-fi story for a game that was in development for five years.

I think they had put together a coherent story, and then for whatever reason it was gutted. Joe was probably like fuck this, I spent years of my life working on it, I'm out. A ridiculous replacement story that tries to draw from the original work but fails miserably is put into place. A few competent guys are hired last minute to put the Grimoire together because it becomes abundantly obvious that the story in its current incarnation is frail and weak. They do an admirable job of it, but the implementation is very poor being unlockables only viewable in a web browser and doesn't change the fact that the story being told in the game is rubbish.

Cody mentioned that he had heard some rumblings that Activision didn't want the story to demonize (or destroy, or whatever) the Traveler because they wanted to keep the Traveler an iconic part of the marketing for the game. Just a rumor, but lord have mercy if that's the reason the story was scrapped and Joe left the company.

It's kinda fun to speculate but short of Joe or someone else just coming out and telling us what went down, which will never happen, we will never know. Which makes me a little sad, the whole thing would probably make a great story all of its own.