@ssenkahdavic, bungie wouldnt be bungie without m$ and thats a fact. if m$ never bought them and used halo as the must have xbox game and made sure everyone knew that for their start into the console race, bungie wouldnt be anywhere near where they are today. it just seems to me that bungie spit in m$'s face by signing this deal. so i will buy halo reach, but after that i hope every game they make bombs hard and is utter trash. i know my opinion is going to be in the very small minority but its my opinion.

Now that they're developing for my favorite platform, the PS3, they have gained a +1 in respect from me.

Still like them, but lost a good deal of respect. I will probably still buy their games, but now's not the best time to be getting in bed with Activision PR-wise.

Been playing the Reach beta. Bungie is still awesome :)

They would not be where they are today without MS.  I agree completely.  Thing is, MS let them go independent.  Did they have to? No.  But it is probably a good thing that they did (think Activision-IW).  

Bungie had to sign a deal of this nature to stay afloat (since they are not doing anything else Halo after Reach).  Bungie needs a Publishing partner that can/will go to different platforms (MS obviously wont) and Activision might just be the right place for them.  Activision Blizzard is large enough where they have no problem "spitting in MS eye" (as you put it) where other smaller Publishers might just think twice about it.

Was it Bungie or MS that made the decision on Halo? Does anyone know?  

That's a load of BS and you know it.  Bungie will make a metric shit-ton of money off of Reach, more than enough to keep them going until their next game comes out.  They obviously have their reasons for signing a deal with Activision, but a desparate need for money because big-bad MS won't let them make a multiplat game is not one of them.

I find it funny that Bungie went from a mediocre dev to brilliant dev

i think they are foolish for signing on with Activision. I mean they didnt pay IW their bonuses. That is just some high class BS. Other than that, good dev team. Still wish Halo was on ps3, but theres enough to play as it is anyways

*puts more money in saving for a 360 jar*

I still think they're highly talented Devs and I cannot wait to see their new IP.

How it is BS?  Do you know how much Bungie will be paid for Reach?  Read their interview with Edge.  In there they say they want to go Multiplat (could not do that with MS, agree?) and that this deal is VITAL for them to remain free to work on this IP and ONLY this IP (they did say something about maybe a small project or so) for an entire decade.  The fact that the deal allows them to:

A) Stay Independent

B) Keep the IP (which they regret they could not do with Halo, its in the Edge Interview)

C) Use Activision to help with the transfer to Multiplat (use their internal resources)

just does not seem like a bad thing to me.