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"Once Bungie takes over the world, The Marty Army will take over Bungie and then we'll really have some fun."
-Marty O'Donnell
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My understanding was that the "payoff" had referred to Halo 3: ODST.
Back when Bungie led a mini-ARG here on the site to promote ODST (not sure if it had been renamed from "Halo 3: Recon" at this point), there was an image of the Superintendent with cryptic messages in different languages, such as Sanskrit. When Microsoft shut down the planned announcement date that Bungie had led us all up to, the Bungie.net homepage featured a letter from Harold Ryan (president) that explained to us the situation about Microsoft's last-minute dictum.
After that, an updated version of the same image of the Superintendent that I mentioned above surfaced and featured the words "There will be a payoff... it won't be a letter" in the least visible parts of the image. The contextual suggestion was that we would have to wait a little longer for ODST announcements (actually, it might have been the trailer) - and that we wouldn't be waiting around all for just another disappointing "letter".
So, if my memory is correct, we have already received the "payoff". Someone please correct me if portions of my account are false or incomplete. But that is not to say there will not be another "payoff" with Destiny, since this is a much longer wait after all.