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Subject: Halo 2, xbox LIve "optimatch" not connecting

Posted by: ღMidnight Hawk2ღ
Everyone is entitled to their own wrong opinion.


I'm part of the Bungie.net Minecraft group/server called SeptaCrafters
We're a Bungie.net group that goes to our very own Bungie server. Most players are from the Halo community either off Bungie itself or through word to Halo friends.

My mom is happy cause MM is working again...

  • 11.13.2009 9:18 AM PDT

This is the average H2 Fanboy.
Xfire: JacobGRocks.
50 in H2/H3? Great, but you still fail at this.

Tried MM on my original xbox, get that error. Also, there was no news in the BNET Latest news box.
Looks like there is a update.
Also, Custom games probably still work.

  • 11.13.2009 11:42 AM PDT

Posted by: ღMidnight Hawk2ღ
Everyone is entitled to their own wrong opinion.


I'm part of the Bungie.net Minecraft group/server called SeptaCrafters
We're a Bungie.net group that goes to our very own Bungie server. Most players are from the Halo community either off Bungie itself or through word to Halo friends.

of course customs still work. my mom is able 2 get into MM but some of her friends can't. so that is odd that some work and some don't

  • 11.13.2009 11:48 AM PDT
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so far not working, just cleared cached and deleted maps. didn't work. so now downloading maps. will

  • 11.13.2009 11:55 AM PDT

This is the average H2 Fanboy.
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50 in H2/H3? Great, but you still fail at this.

Tried again on my 360, graphics look clearer, but still doesnt work.
Also, it has issues reading my disc.

Oh, and H2 is NOT getting shut down, they meant original xbox live shutdown, which meant Halo 2 along with other games (CS Xbox, SW BF II, Kotor DLC, etc)

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  • 11.13.2009 12:07 PM PDT
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cleared cache, deleted maps, downloaded maps again, still not working.
This is what M$ thinks:
"Typically, these error messages indicate that you are receiving poor Quality of Service (QoS) from your Internet service provider (ISP)."

This is what they want me to do:
"1. Sign in to Xbox Live again later. "

  • 11.13.2009 12:21 PM PDT

Die pickle eater!
SuperPaul69 is my friend!

I guess we wait, and keep on trying.

I got an email back from xbox email support telling me they can't help me and to call instead. What, and get the same dumbass runarround as i did by them. If not up by next weekend, I will cancel.

  • 11.13.2009 3:06 PM PDT

I aggree. i play xbox LIVE just for halo 2. i think its the most amazing game on LIVE, and for them to shut it down would just anger halo fans into not buying their future releases

  • 11.13.2009 3:45 PM PDT

MM only works in the morning and early afternoon. then it shuts down. my guess is they are either updating it or it has to do with the new game that just came out. someone mentioned that they might be adjusting it so over in iraq the servers arent so busy. so if you really want to play matchmaking i guess just wait for morning or afternoon. i havent seen it work at night in a few days.

trust me this bugs u just as much as me. i would suggest calling them. i would but i dont have enuf minutes on my phone to sit and deal with them.

let us know what u find out!!

  • 11.13.2009 4:25 PM PDT
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Any idea what time matchmaking starts up in the morning?

  • 11.13.2009 4:40 PM PDT

Halo 2 for Life!

I heard from a kid it will be a sporadic problem the rest of halo2 existence online because Microsoft doesn't want to divert recourses to the problem at present.

  • 11.13.2009 4:48 PM PDT

This is the average H2 Fanboy.
Xfire: JacobGRocks.
50 in H2/H3? Great, but you still fail at this.

Posted by: totallymassive
I heard from a kid it will be a sporadic problem the rest of halo2 existence online because Microsoft doesn't want to divert recourses to the problem at present.

Only 1 issue, 10000 people a day still got on halo 2 xbox before this stupid playlist crap happnened. Sure that might sound small compared to say, mw2, but that is a lot of people for a 5 year old game.

Be sure to call 1-800-4-my-xbox about it and tell them about it, they need to know about this bug.

Also, just to refute all original live shutdown rumors, I played battlefront II fine today, and i still see people on my friends list list on the original xbox dash (Xbox dashboard, not xbox 360 dashboard.).

And if you reallly badly want h2, then get this game.

  • 11.13.2009 7:22 PM PDT

Posted by: DTF Jackson
Any idea what time matchmaking starts up in the morning?


im not sure what time it starts up or ends for sure. i know i played this morning at like 9am central time and it worked. thats all i know. good luck everyone. im just pissed this is happening with halo 2 cuz i dont wanna start playing 3 only because 2 is being stupid online. i guess we'll see what happens.

  • 11.13.2009 7:31 PM PDT

Posted by: totallymassive
I heard from a kid it will be a sporadic problem the rest of halo2 existence online because Microsoft doesn't want to divert recourses to the problem at present.


and where did he hear this?

  • 11.13.2009 7:32 PM PDT

Halo 2 for Life!

I'm not sure but he sounded like he new what he was talking about, but anyways i got a email today from xbox live saying that facebook and twitter are being integrated into xbox live (so you can check the statues of your friends online). So that means that a friends list of over 100 will be necessary for xbox live users.
Which means Halo 2 is either going to be not supported by xbox live anymore after Nov. 17 or maybe there coming up with a way to save halo2 and have a 100 friends list (a possible explination for the problems with match making right now).

Since they didn't tell bungie that halo2 is going to go (aclest to my knoladge) it is less likely halo2 will be shut down, but it is possible that there maybe some perminent problems with halo2 and xbox live for the rest of halo2 existence on xbox live (i.e. match making may never be the same).



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  • 11.13.2009 7:41 PM PDT
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This is horrible because I just decided yesterday that I was going to get back into halo 2 and give halo 3 a break because I had such a better experience with halo 2. But it just so happens that at the same time I decided to do this, halo 2 matchmaking gets messed up. I'm very sad about all this, I was excited for some nostalgic gaming tonight.

  • 11.13.2009 10:14 PM PDT

Clevelander.Hip Hop Head.Sports Addict.MLGer.

Does It work, if it does hit me up H35vyWeight for Team Hardcore

  • 11.13.2009 11:22 PM PDT

This is the average H2 Fanboy.
Xfire: JacobGRocks.
50 in H2/H3? Great, but you still fail at this.

If ms is shutting down original live many people will hate it for 3 reasons:
1. Many people are still on the original xbox.
2. Even then many halo 2 players are on 360.
3. DLC for games like Kotor, Halo 2, or others wont be avalible anymore to non modders.
4. Not everyone wants Halo 2 PC (the maw has a bunch of h2pc haters who troll threads asking for help)

  • 11.14.2009 4:51 AM PDT
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rumor has it that it only works in the morning. So right now it's working for me. 8am east coast. Let's see if it will work tonight. If it does then it might just be they take Halo 2 offline to accommodate other games for some reason...maybe bandwidth or server resource. who knows.

feel a little bit like having Comcast :)

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  • 11.14.2009 5:17 AM PDT

This is the average H2 Fanboy.
Xfire: JacobGRocks.
50 in H2/H3? Great, but you still fail at this.

Yeah, its the morning and its working, odd.

  • 11.14.2009 5:47 AM PDT
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Posted by: totallymassive
I'm not sure but he sounded like he new what he was talking about, but anyways i got a email today from xbox live saying that facebook and twitter are being integrated into xbox live (so you can check the statues of your friends online). So that means that a friends list of over 100 will be necessary for xbox live users.
Which means Halo 2 is either going to be not supported by xbox live anymore after Nov. 17 or maybe there coming up with a way to save halo2 and have a 100 friends list (a possible explination for the problems with match making right now).

Since they didn't tell bungie that halo2 is going to go (aclest to my knoladge) it is less likely halo2 will be shut down, but it is possible that there maybe some perminent problems with halo2 and xbox live for the rest of halo2 existence on xbox live (i.e. match making may never be the same).

You do know that Microsoft sais that you aren't supposed to tell other people about the xbox preview stuff ..... right? -.^ It's in the first email they send you and int he xbox preview thingy on the dashboard 0.0 you trying to get banned from xbox live? lmfao just warning you. I know this because i have it also (get it every time) and I read the rules =P

  • 11.14.2009 6:13 AM PDT
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Posted by: Lost1nSpace
cleared cache, deleted maps, downloaded maps again, still not working.
This is what M$ thinks:
"Typically, these error messages indicate that you are receiving poor Quality of Service (QoS) from your Internet service provider (ISP)."

This is what they want me to do:
"1. Sign in to Xbox Live again later. "
You do know that the support people at M$ don't know a single thing about what they are talking about right? They just say what they are told to say ....... Which is "Clear your system cache. Unplug your router. Plug it back in. Wait 30 seconds. Ok now sign back into xbox live. Put the game in. Still doesn't work? Well here's a case number. Call us back in a few days and keep trying. We'll do our best (which translates into we won't do anything) to figure out your porblem sir/madam. Thanks for calling us. Bye." So yea they can't help you at all.

  • 11.14.2009 6:17 AM PDT
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Posted by: Midnight Hawk2
I find this kinda funny that MM isn't working.

I was upstairs ion the phone and my mom calls me down. She proceeds to say "MM ISN'T WORKING, FIX IT!!" >.<
LOL my mom does that to me when the internet in the house is down because I know more about it than the support people at RoadRunner and Time Warner Digital Cable

  • 11.14.2009 6:20 AM PDT

This is the average H2 Fanboy.
Xfire: JacobGRocks.
50 in H2/H3? Great, but you still fail at this.

1. Dont triple post.
2. That twitter stuff was known a lot, it was on inside xbox.
3. If they shut it down, many people will be mad at ms and they will lose a lot of paying customers.

  • 11.14.2009 6:24 AM PDT
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Posted by: JacobGRocks
1. Dont triple post.
2. That twitter stuff was known a lot, it was on inside xbox.
3. If they shut it down, many people will be mad at ms and they will lose a lot of paying customers.
Lol sorry was to lazy to edit my post adding all the quotes and my comments to them in one wall of text response

  • 11.14.2009 6:29 AM PDT