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Subject: Halo 2, Xbox LIVE and You

Posted by: Gen Petitt
ME2 was known for stupidity and being retarded

Posted by: funyongod
OH THANK GOD


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OH, AND BUNGEE, I DON'T WANNA DO VIDEOMASTRRRRRRRR, K? SO:


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  • 02.06.2010 10:08 PM PDT

Screw microsoft seriously, I pay for 6 years of xbl live, give them hundreds and hundreds of my dollars so I can play halo 2 , and they turn around and -blam!- me in the ass, that's awesome thanks microsoft you greedy corporate bastards, what a bunch of -blam!- bubbling , -blam!- licking , quiff sniffing , -blam!- sucking , ass -blam!- , kikes , I am so mad about this, I just got screwed !!

[Edited on 02.06.2010 11:09 PM PST]

  • 02.06.2010 11:08 PM PDT

Bungie you better re-master the game , the EXACT way it was, bxb's bxr's, double shots, wall glitches, super bounces, sword canceling, and everything else that made this game ten times better that failo 3 , I'm serious, I hope the people who made this decisions realize how -blam!- they are and give the community that made them some respect. -blam!- Microsoft !

  • 02.06.2010 11:15 PM PDT
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OMG Bungie please help us with the damaged DLC issue. Can you guys find a way to let us play online with missing or damaged DLC . This game was so important to so many and it would be a shame if the DLC kept us from having our last Horrah together.

  • 02.06.2010 11:31 PM PDT

omg .... im seriously -blam!- sad.. halo 2 is what started everything... im sitting down right here playing halo 2 right now cus of this and all i remember is all the good times and how i used to sit down and play halo 2 as a little kid. and how i met every 1. this is a sad moment. -blam!- YOU MICROSOFT

  • 02.07.2010 12:19 AM PDT

I want her...

i want the dlc back >_< no idea how it was wiped from my hdd :(

  • 02.07.2010 4:56 AM PDT

Oddball1221

bungie, you have to do something, couldn't you like devote some of your team to remaking Halo 2 as an Arcade Classic???

  • 02.07.2010 5:06 AM PDT

So if you don't have the maps packs you better get them now so they're on your hardrive forever. I'm Still a pround owner of a Halo 2 Disk.

  • 02.07.2010 5:16 AM PDT

R.I.P. Halo 2 11/9/04-4/15/10
If you havn't played Halo 2 online than you are missing so much. Plus if you have played a good amount of Halo 2 online, I might have a better chance of listening to anything you say.

Im highly disappointed of this but with DLC problems Im glad I kept my Halo 2 Multiplayer Map Pack disk. Although if my maps get damaged I will have no way of getting Tombstone or Desolation.

  • 02.07.2010 5:23 AM PDT

I still can't believe this ... bungie I have faith ! you can save the world ... of halo 2 !

  • 02.07.2010 6:06 AM PDT
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I cannot believe it, I am deeply saddened of this news. I played halo 2 religously clocking over 10,000 games on half a dozen accounts.

I have been trying for days now to try & redownload the dlc but to my disappointment the servers are gone. I just want to play online matchmaking, but with the servers for the dlc gone I have no way of playing. Can bungie please open a matchmaking playlist for those people with just the original maps?

Yes I know like a lot of people the live infrastructure could not evolve until disolving the old but the question is why did microsoft cut the servers for the dlc so soon?

Halo 2 RIP WE LOVE YOU ALWAYS

  • 02.07.2010 6:29 AM PDT

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

In contuation of my last post:

Posted by: JacobGRocks
Looks like Micro$oft has come out with a fail faq here:
http://forums.xbox.com/31163250/ShowPost.aspx
Here are some big ones:
Q: Isn't this really just to get customers to upgrade to an Xbox 360?
A: Absolutely not, this is about providing the most benefit to the full Xbox LIVE community.

So to provide the most benifit, they need to cut off a lot of people from live. Also, look how much money could fly into bill gates's wallet if he made people upgrade.


Q: Does this impact games that are running on an Xbox 360, or just the original Xbox?
A: Xbox LIVE support will end for original Xbox 1 consoles and games, including Xbox 1 games playable on Xbox 360.

So its being killed for all original xbox games. Even those on xbox marketplace.

Q: Don't you think this is a huge blow to the "Halo 2" community?

A: "Halo 2" redefined the multiplayer gaming experience on a console, and we're incredibly grateful to the Halo community for their continued support of the franchise. We are committed to continued LIVE support of popular experiences such as "Halo 3," "Halo Wars," and "Halo 3: ODST" on Xbox 360. We're also moving quickly towards the future of the franchise with the "Halo: Reach" beta on Xbox LIVE just around the corner.

So to them, they would rather support failo 3 and lousy non bungie spinoffs then halo 2.

They also claim they arent shutting down 360 live (which they might when the 720 comes out) and they also arent saying it is related to natal or the announced friends list cap.

A few more:
Q: Does this mean you plan to shut down Xbox LIVE for Xbox 360 users as well?

A: Absolutely not. Our focus now is continuing the evolution of Xbox LIVE with new features specifically for the Xbox 360 community.

In a few years, ms will want to "improve" the xbox 720 and will shut down 360 live, mw2, cod4, halo 3 and more. And you WILL lose your dlc.

Q: Are you doing anything special for the people affected?

A: Over the coming months we will contact the Xbox LIVE members directly impacted by this change. We view the community as a partner in this process.

Last time i checked on my xbox 1, there were no messages about the shutdown. Just the same "welcome to xbox live check here for upcoming news and events blah blah". I also didnt have any importiant messages from live either.
Q: Why are you discontinuing Xbox LIVE service for the original Xbox?

A: This change will allow us to continue the evolution of Xbox LIVE, delivering features and experiences that fully harness the power of Xbox 360 and the global Xbox LIVE community of more than 20 million members. The best is yet to come, and we look forward to sharing more details in the near future

So for a few well known people to have a trillion friends, they need to ditch a bunch of games people play.

Also, here ms says they dont care about the xbox.

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  • 02.07.2010 6:31 AM PDT

Is there anyway to re-release Halo 2 on Xbox 360 with Achievements?

  • 02.07.2010 7:09 AM PDT

Forever Forgers

Live and let live.

And i dont even have h2! I had, a time ago, access to it for a full week. What a week! but now... No way of getting a copy and no online or dlc if i do get it. its so sad...

  • 02.07.2010 7:14 AM PDT

-Bungie All Star Nameplate Winner
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"In peace the sons bury their fathers, but in war the fathers bury their sons." -Croesus

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

='(

  • 02.07.2010 7:34 AM PDT

Xbox Ambassador
Hold RB to flip...wait, what? How did you do that?

this is truly a black day for xbox....

theres is no way they could allow bungie to use private servers to continue support for halo2? like how EA games use there own servers?

  • 02.07.2010 7:53 AM PDT

Join Halo: Next Generation HERE!
UNLEASH THE FIEND!

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Posted by BUNGIE:
That said, mark your calendars now - on April 14th let's all rally to go online for one last hoorah. One final farewell and one final opportunity for all of you to kick our asses at Halo 2.


I haven't had XBL for a long time but I have played a few H2 games and I enjoyed them. I like H2 and I loved it. I still enjoy it and I love H3. On the bright side, REACH BETA will be coming soon after the end of H2 Xbl. I'm ready to play some serious H2.


All that really needs to be said here is,
"Let's go out with a bang."

  • 02.07.2010 8:07 AM PDT

Ah, someone leaked. Now to find the leak and.... plug it.
With justice.

I use coup 5
Never Played halo 1 = Invalid opinion
Bloom isn't whats broken, its your idea of what good is and your opinion
Thats like saying uber nerf armor lock because like 20 percent of the community hates it. Oh wait..................

OK so shiska should tootaly get cracking on the dlc problem, and THERE IS NO XBOX 720 YOU CAN'T BELIEVE EVERYTHING YOU READ ON THE INTERNET.

( and don't use this forum to ask for recon they'll just ban u)

I find it funny how they microsoft did this and thier only said reason is to " expand the experience " when they are really only detracting from it.

Go -Blam- yourself Microsoft!

  • 02.07.2010 8:19 AM PDT
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Are they -blam!- retarted? I play Halo 2 every -blam!- day! This is -blam!- bull-blam!-! Microsoft, just -blam!- shove it up your ass. Why don't you shut down the Halo 3 Server, cause that game blows my dick! So many people still play that game! Your obviously -blam!- mental in the brain to shut down the server. Go -blam!- yourself. ;]

  • 02.07.2010 8:28 AM PDT
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We should buy a year of Xbox Live on April 14th, and then when they shut it down, and we have XBOXLIVE, be like; I dont have an XBOX360, so I'm -blam!- sueing your ass for not letting me contuinue my XBoxLive membership!

  • 02.07.2010 8:29 AM PDT

We got Xbox LIVE because of Halo 2. It started with that 2 month free trial card, but it grew to be over 5+ years.

I do have Halo 2 PC, just need a better laptop to play it.

Thanks BUNGIE for all your hard work in keeping the game going for so long. Here's to new memories :)

  • 02.07.2010 9:21 AM PDT

ODST and Reach will be awesome!!!

WHAT?!?!?!?!?!? NOOOOO!!!!!!! THIS CAN'T BE HAPPENING *walks away and starts to cry*

  • 02.07.2010 10:35 AM PDT

AFK: Finishing the fight...again...to get my EVA helmet.

This is so depressing, I met so many friends, had so many memories, so many all nighters, and hours and hours of nonsense and mindless play of Halo 2. I never saw this coming, I feel betrayed :(

  • 02.07.2010 10:43 AM PDT

Go Rockets!!!

Yao Ming is back!!!

Halo 2 is my favorite Halo, nooooooooo!!!

In my eyes, Halo 2 will be remembered for the best MP maps of any game ever.

R.I.P. Halo 2

  • 02.07.2010 11:12 AM PDT

bungie needs to port halo 2 to 360 since it has a great community plus i remember playing the original which was awesome

  • 02.07.2010 11:28 AM PDT