User blog comment:Sonasaurus/343 Industries and the future of Against All Odds/@comment-2141606-20120420050146/@comment-2141606-20120421000024

We'll have to agree to disagree on that. Bungie intentionally made the ending of Halo 3 open to future installments. A considerable amount of 343i employees used to work for Bungie anyway.

I know you and Sona both take offense to 343i expanding upon the known universe, but it was bound to happen one day. We all knew it as soon as we saw the Halo 3 legendary ending. That day is finally coming. That was the primary reason why I never wrote anything that was based after Halo 3. I knew it would eventually contradict new canon.

343i has as much the right to continue the Halo series that they so lovingly crafted as you and Sona do to continue AAO, ignoring their canon. It's a work piece you both (and others) have worked so hard to maintain and expand and Sona is right that correcting this fanon with new canon would destroy what it already was.

I trust 343i to do the right thing and make the right calls during the development of Halo 4 and the future sequels. Fans or not, they care about their work and what the fanbase has to say about it. They connect all the established canon together to get a more intricate and immersive feel to it.