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That makes a bit of sense, I figured there must have been a clause in the contract somewhere. I doubt it'd be a limited number of games things though.
From what I could tell the whole time, Microsoft actually bought Bungie out, lock stock and barrel, not entered into a publishing deal like they have now with Activision. This means that microsoft DID earn all the money made from Bungie, and they paid into the bungie team the appropriate amounts (production costs, employee wages, etc...) Bungie wouldn't have really seen any money as an independant studio under Microsoft's flag, no different then any other division. Their Windows division doesn't earn money and pay it's keep into MS central, it's the other way around.
Unless I'm misunderstanding exactly how the buyout/merger first occured.