Frank "Frankie" O'Connor announced today to us ever loving Bungie fans that he will be departing ways with Microsoft to work more closely on the Halo franchise with the company.

Frank has supported Bungie as the "voice" of Halo for most of its run, and also worked as Bungie’s content manager. With Bungie's split from Microsoft, and the branching out of the Halo franchise, O'Connor has considered the best move is to work withthe publisher directly, but he didn't leave without a heartwarming letter to the fans.

Dear BungieFans,

It’s not you, it’s me.

In many ways, you’re too good for me. You can find someone better. Maybe a little hairy dude. Maybe a Hungarian Unicyclist. I just know that I don’t deserve you, and that this is just as hard for me as it is for you.

Yours truly,

Frankie.

I am leaving you. I am off to work more closely with Microsoft on the Halo franchise, so I shan’t be too far away, but I wanted to take this last chance, appropriately enough in a Weekly Update, to tell you a very fond thanks. Thanks for being the most energized, enthusiastic, loyal, faithful, creative, imaginative and incredible community any video game could ever have.

Thanks for being patient when things went wrong, when playlists didn’t work, when matchmaking broke, when bugs were being fixed. Thanks for the mail, the screenshots, the movies, the machinima, the models, the paintings and the sheer enthusiasm and talent you’ve shown me over the years.

Thanks for not following through on the death threats.

Thanks for sticking with us through thick and thin and thanks for the loyalty you’re going to show Bungie over the coming years.

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