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Posted by: sawnose
A couple thoughts here -
First, I'm glad you guys actually care about this! Supporting Halo 1 PC has been a big thing for me over the years and I'm glad it still gets attention.
For the cutoff - I heard from a lot of people last week who only played it for Campaign, and therefore didn't have their keys in the active list. Excluding them would be unfair.
Also, let's say that the cutoff date were still in place. People who wanted to buy a copy for the flair would still be able to, they'd just end up buying a code used from someone who had played the game but not redeemed the code for the flair. You'd end up doubting the legitimacy of people's logos just as much, and we'd end up creating a grey market for used codes and have to deal with complaints of people who bought codes that had already been activated. We probably still will, but at least this way we're not begging for it to happen :-)
So basically, allowing the smallish number of people who will buy it for the flair to get it from retail will keep things cleaner and fairer in the big picture.
p.s. - the thing about Halo 2 flair was occasionally misreported, even by us. The official plan was supposed to be this (and occasionally messaged correctly): if you EVER played halo 2, you get the flair. If you played Halo 2 in the last days, you got early access to the Reach beta. And that's what we're doing.
Yeah thanks from clearing that up. I still own and play all of the Halo games and was quite bummed out about the flair not being available for me. But now I can go out and show my support!