From the 343I Forums: [quote]We will look into reopening this thread later once people have had a chance to settle a bit and formulate new thoughts. This is NOT an invitation to start new threads on the issue so please do not do so, those will be locked as well. [/quote] Lets read between the lines a bit, just based on past 343 experiences with the issue of criticism. [quote]We will look into reopening this thread later once people have had a chance to settle a bit and formulate new thoughts.[/quote] "We've locked this thread and will reopen it later when you little people can do more than bitch at us, because quite frankly we can't take any more criticism over us finally telling the truth. As a matter of fact, we're probably going to go ahead and just delete this whole thread so that we don't have to deal with any criticism, and so that it looks like all of our fans are happy all of the time regardless of what we do that butchers this franchise even more." [quote]This is NOT an invitation to start new threads on the issue so please do not do so, those will be locked as well. [/quote] "We will lock any more threads with bitching in them. Unless you are blowing sunshine up our collective asses, we really don't want to hear it. Actually, we really don't want to hear from you even if you love us, just keep buying the shiny pieces of shit we keep churning out so that it [i]looks[/i] like we know what we're doing. But really, our delicate sensibilities just can't take any more proof that we have screwed over the only reason Microsoft has to keep us around." Sincerely, BS Angel