“In addition to team skins, fans can also rep some of their favorite host nations with limited-edition flag skins, which will become available as the Halo World Championship 2018 season rolls through London, Sydney, Mexico City, and Columbus. Whose banner will you rep into battle?”
Just something I copied and pasted from the skins page on the esports section. Not sure why they were never released cause it would be really cool to see Mexico, Canada, UK, and American flags being shown off in game. Little content pieces like this couldn’t hurt the community but only help it. They have them, why not make them available? seriously don’t get it. Someone can explain before this post gets locked, or censored. Please.
> This week we were putting the finishing touches on plans to release a small collection of decorative national flag skins for the UK, Australia, Canada, Mexico and the United States, but in light of the seriousness of the current climate, and with input and feedback from some of our regional partners, we have decided to delay the release indefinitely.
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> Lots of folks worked hard to make the decorative decals, and we know that players were anticipating them in the spirit of fun and competition in which they were originally intended, however, we feel that releasing these items now would be inappropriate.
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> The rest of our HaloWC tournament activity will continue as planned, and we’d like to take this moment to say simply, “be good to each other.”
People have speculated that it was either because of the school shooting that happened during that time or because of Trump. We’ll likely never get the real reasoning.
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> People have speculated that it was either because of the school shooting that happened during that time or because of Trump. We’ll likely never get the real reasoning.
If it’s because of that, it’s ridiculous.
And there’s tons of other games you can wear flags, there’s no hate in wearing flags. Nothing inappropriate by it. It’s just really weird, this whole situation, imo.
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> People have speculated that it was either because of the school shooting that happened during that time or because of Trump. We’ll likely never get the real reasoning.
Wait a minute. If this was about Trump, why is Old Abe still on the menu?
I think that flags are fine as long as there is a flag for every country.
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> Wait a minute. If this was about Trump, why is Old Abe still on the menu?
Let’s not get too political here…politics and Waypoint don’t mix well. And besides, the Old Abe skin has been around since the Infinity’s Armory update.
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> Wait a minute. If this was about Trump, why is Old Abe still on the menu?
The timing roughly coincides with the high school shootings in Florida back in February, but the folks at 343 have not elaborated. Here’s an older thread on the subject:
OMG 343 can you just leave politics out of your game? just want to have some cool flag skins. sheesh
Thank you to the users who linked 343i’s official response and the existing discussion thread on this topic.