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After the release of Halo 2, Jones took a sabbatical from Bungie, not knowing whether he wanted to continue making games.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=https://waypoint.vice.com/en_us/article/xwqjg3/the-complete-untold-history-of-halo-an-oral-history|title=The Complete, Untold History of Halo|date=May 30, 2017|work=Waypoint|access-date=October 27, 2018|language=en-us}}</ref> As Jones returned, his involvement with Halo began to diminish,<ref name=":0" /> as Jones tended to 'dislike' sequels.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://pid.bungie.org/IMGjasoninterviewOct93.html|title=IMG Interview: Bungie's Jason Jones|website=pid.bungie.org|access-date=October 27, 2018}}</ref> He desired to build a new intellectual property.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book|title=Blood, Sweat, and Pixels|last=Schreier|first=Jason|publisher=[[Harper Paperbacks]]|___location=New York City|year=2017|isbn=9780062651235|___location=|pages=176–200}}</ref> Jones worked closely with colleague [[Jaimie Griesemer]] who was working on his own internal project named "Dragon's Tavern" which Griesemer described to be a "third person fantasy game"<ref name=":1" /> In the end however, Jones had the most power at Bungie, despite not being the President he was the majority share-holder and his vision of the studio was his alone to decide.<ref name=":1" /> In the end, Jason got his way with the studio's next project and worked with Griesemer to combine his ideas of "Dragon's Tavern" with what would be ''[[Destiny (video game)|Destiny]]''.<ref name=":1" /> As development continued, and with Griesemer gone, the writing team led by [[Joseph Staten]] had created a "Super-Cut" which was essentially a summary of the game's story-line. The super-cut was poorly received by Jones and the rest of the studio.<ref name=":1" /> Shortly after, Jones decided to scrap the writing team's work and effectively re-write the story very late into production with [[Martin O'Donnell|Marty O'Donnell]], believing it was not feasible and almost impossible to complete.<ref name=":1" /> Knowing the game was in peril with his proposed reboot of the story, Jones formed a group called the "Iron Bar" composed of art director Christopher Barrett, designer [[Luke Smith (writer)|Luke Smith]] and writer Eric Raab, an experienced book editor.<ref name=":1" /> Jones and the rest of Bungie carried on to release ''[[Destiny (video game)|Destiny]]'' on September 9, 2014, to lukewarm reception.<ref name=":1" />
Jones is the Chief Creative Officer at Bungie, building new worlds with an investment from Chinese company NetEase.<ref>{{Cite web|first=Brendan|last=Sinclair|url=https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2018-06-01-bungie-gets-more-than-usd100-million-investment-from-netease|title=Bungie gets more than $100 million investment from NetEase|work=GamesIndustry.biz|date=June 1, 2018|access-date=October 17, 2018|language=en}}</ref>
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