Halo 2 Players Refuse to Leave Xbox Live

[chozo_hybrid]

This is kinda sad, you can still system link it. Move on guys, seriously, there are other FPS games out there.

 

[Eggsnham]

What I don't get is why. I don't know much about Xbox Live, but can they now no longer play games online or something?

Microsoft turned the original XBOX's XBL off.

 

[MR T3D]

This is why PC gaming is great.
I can still play my BF1942 online, just like in 2001.

not so much with any console game, which is a real shame as these people believe.

 

[The_Bat_Dan]

Anyone who still plays on an orginal Xbox needs to get kicked in the nuts.

You do realized there are a lot of poor people, and even more than usual despite the alleged recovery of the economy (according to the stock market). Some day it might be you who can't afford a new generation console.

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That said, I think Microsoft is in the wrong here. Simply put I feel those people are entitled to play the games they bought online indefinatly. That's part of the product they puchused. To me the only way Microsoft should be turning off their servers or support of those games should be if it goes out of business entirely.

I understand other points of view on this, but to me this pretty much summarizes why I am against the idea of games going digital, or relying on digital connections in general. Right now we're seeing exactly why buying a game that is dependant on the company in any way is a bad idea.

I imagine in 10 years or so we'll hear about how Assasin's Creed 2's support servers are going offline and nobody will be able to play their copy of AC2 anymore. Strictly speaking I feel that if I bought a copy of a game, I have the right to just up and play it online 10 years later on an old machine if I get the hankering. By the same token even if the servers are deserted for decades at a time, I feel a group of Octogenerians in an home down the road would have the right to all login to Halo 2 with their antique X-boxs and play a few rounds for nostolgia if they wanted to.

"Cybersquatting" has apparently accomplished nothing though.

As much as I agree with you, unfortunatley thats capitalism for you... microsoft aren't making any money off original xboxes being online anymore, so in their eyes why should they continue supporting it? To be honest though, for what an Xbox 360 and a copy of Halo 3 or ODST costs these days, then they could probably afford to keep playing a better version of essentially the same game by simply logging off and not having to pay for the electric it costs to run an xbox and Halo 2 anymore. In fact fuck agreeing with anyone, I'm siding with Microsoft/Bungee. The people (read: idiots) still trying to keep Halo 2 alive should be publicly humiliated and shown up as the fools they are. For god sake its not as if Halo 3 costs millions for them to play is it? At least if they want they can still enjoy offline multi player and the story mode, and if they're sad enough to stay online for a whole week in the name of the most pointless protest the world has ever seen then I'm positive that they're sad enough to travel a few miles for a rousing game of Halo 2... Jesus christ morons just buy a 360 like the rest of us and enjoy Halo 3 or ODST...

 

[NoNameMcgee]

They should just let go and move on.

 

[Eggsnham]

Anyone who still plays on an orginal Xbox needs to get kicked in the nuts.

I still play on mine, I never had XBL for it, but I still play occasionally, between bouts of CoD and Battlefield.

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

I hope their Xbox 360's Red Ring! Or their original Xbox's get hit with a nuke. Seriously. Those originals are TANKS.

Since you can play it on both...

You mean the originals that had to be called back because they caught fire when they first came out?

They are still like tanks. Just tanks on fire. FLAMING TANKS.

 

[L3m0n_L1m3]

Sorry, but this came to mind when I read the title.

Hard to believe how much they're hanging on to it, though.

 

[silver wolf009]

Fight on comrades! id,ve joined the movement if i still had an orginal x-box.

 

[TheodoreLuke]

I was thinking they could make a standalone remake of Halo 2 multiplayer as a downloadable game.

 

[tkioz]

What a pack of obsessed cry-babies.

 

[tetron]

They can take our live, but they'll never take OUR FREEDOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMM !

 

[Radelaide]

It's a little pathetic, isn't it? It's like being at a bar at 5am after last call. You got proper warning, the publican was nice about it and you've completely ignored him.

 

[chaos order]

im not the biggest fan of halo, honestly i only play at my friends house and we play infection mode.and i hate how lots of halo fans r like halo is the BEST SHOOTER EVER!!!!!! and they feel like they are the elite of the elite. BUT u gotta admit they r dedicated fans for doing this, and i gotta respect that.

 

[ethaninja]

What I don't get is why. I don't know much about Xbox Live, but can they now no longer play games online or something?

Microsoft turned the original XBOX's XBL off.

Ah ok. Is that different to the 360's live or something?

 

[Awexsome]

There's a point where giving a last hurrah for an awesome game becomes annoying. They're dedicated and I can respect that but the removal of the original Xbox live support was for the greater good.

Hell I played like 6 hours straight on Halo 2 the final night but I think they're gone now. Bungie's weekly update said that there were finally none left.

 

[Vrex360]

These people are just being stupid. I'm a massive Halo fanboy and I love Bungie to bits. And I even love Microsoft, since they've never done anything bad to me (and every time I've had any dealings with them I've been all the better for it, even when I had the RRoD and they replaced my console with a free three months of XBL thrown in).

Bungie and Microsoft together gave all Halo 2 users plenty of warning that almost everyone took as a case of "fair enough". Halo 2 was kept alive by Bungie for about four or five years after the Xbox 360's Live service came along, which is already impressive enough and a massive sign that Bungie and Microsoft do care somewhat about the gaming community. Not to mention that they threw in a bunch of extra support and nods to the community at the very end.

At the end of the day, the people who are remaining on their consoles are effectively kicking Bungie and Microsoft in the balls. That's a great way to thank the developer and publisher who did so much for you, isn't it?

I have to agree with this.

Sure it hurts that Halo 2 online is over, however they gave it a good send off so really all these people are doing is just flipping off the developer who had worked so hard and for so long to make these games and these dedicated servers.

 

[Eggsnham]

What I don't get is why. I don't know much about Xbox Live, but can they now no longer play games online or something?

Microsoft turned the original XBOX's XBL off.

Ah ok. Is that different to the 360's live or something?

Yeah, it uses (used) different servers and such.

 

[Irridium]

Again, It appears no one is online in Halo 2 anymore. [http://www.bungie.net/Projects/Halo2/default.aspx]

 

[GL2814E]

WHY??!!!??

They have Halo 3, same difference... better graphics...