I'm sorry if I'm not feeling so enthusiastic about this, but just NO!
It hasn't been saved, it has been sabotaged. How blind are you?
By refusing to patch H2V, nor fix the various problems with the game such as CD keys that do not work/hacking/broken H2EK/unoptimized engine, nor will they offer a digital distribution version, they (343i/MS) have effectively killed this version of Halo 2. Look how many players there are now in H2V, they could do something about that, instead they are continuing to do nothing but let it rot.
I am not appreciative of that in the least. MS doesn't give a shit about PC gamers and neither does 343i so they can go fuck themselves; for now on I'll only be purchasing games from Steam.
Summer began on Saturday, June 21, 2014 and ends on Tuesday, September 23, 2014 (in 85 days). MS said they would reveal their plans for PC Games sometime this summer. That means they have a period of about 3 months to do so...