: Remember, they're also seeing the visuals, plot points, and gameplay they
: want come to life. Any collaborative project like a movie or a video game,
: even if the person in charge wants to be the next George Lucas, involves
: plenty of give and take and compromise.

: On a related note, the politics of one division criticizing the work of
: another division would be interesting. Could the sandbox editor flag down
: Frankie in the cafeteria and offer criticism of Halo 5's writing? I doubt
: anybody outside of the writing and cutscene folks have a good idea of what
: the story is until the game is ready to ship, but what about afterward?
: What would happen if someone who isn't on the writing team tells the lead
: writer "I think you really dropped the ball with this game"? Can
: a graphical artist tell the sandbox editors "We should go back to the
: drawing board on the Forerunner weapons, because reskinned Human weapons
: are boring"?

I don't know if you read this or play(ed) any Destiny but this article attempts to shed some light on what happened with the Destiny we were advertised and the one we got, what drove Staten away etc.

http://kotaku.com/the-messy-true-story-behind-the-making-of-destiny-1737556731

I'll summarize it if you don't want to read-

Apparently, upper BUNGIE management hadn't seen the game that they themselves were working on (how this is even POSSIBLE I don't know, but if they did it, 343 could do it too) and when the story team did a presentation to them about it, they stopped it cold, and said they were starting over.

Now, the Bunige I loved in the 2000's is not the Bunige we have today. But, if they had terrible internal communication as this article claims, I would bet money that -any studio- could too.