I believe Russia has a pretty high piracy rate and a low Xbox adoption rate. Lots of online gamers though. Saber's already there, they get to make the game in their own language and whatever, get all the bugs hammered out and eventually release in other countries if it does well enough. It'll surely be filled with microtransactions so I wouldn't expect much of it anyways as far as quality goes.

Overall the actual idea doesn't seem off to me, but using Halo for it does. If they want to keep the franchise "pure" or whatever they should stop handing off cash grab games to outside studios.