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Subject: Halo 2, Xbox LIVE and You

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halo 2.

[Edited on 02.12.2010 9:46 AM PST]

  • 02.12.2010 8:05 AM PDT

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

Even though ms isnt saying its the friends list, "S1d3W1nd3r 24x7" from M$ on the gfwl forums said this:


Dropping support for Xbox 1 is the only way to start adding new features to the LIVE service, things like the 100 friends limit are directly tied to Xbox 1 Support.


Translation: Major Nelson having over 9000 friends > halo 2.

(this was in reply to this)
Hopefully they wont abandon it like xbox 1 or treat it like pc where "lets pretend to support it."

  • 02.17.2010 6:06 AM PDT

The Human race is the parasite of the Earth. The galaxy is the host of the Earth. The universe is the parasite of something much grander...

Posted by: Grunt Chietain
Why would they do this?

Microsoft's reasons fro this are black & white, They are pushing the community to move on with the Technology. 2010 will be a great push for the Xbox community with the new games and not to mention Project Natal. I understand how this is effect the public because sadly I have a friend who is still using the Original Xbox and was crushed by the fact that she will no long be able to game in Halo2 Online via Xbox. More intel here

  • 02.17.2010 10:19 AM PDT

Posted by: GrimWeafer
Posted by: Grunt Chietain
Why would they do this?

Microsoft's reasons fro this are black & white, They are pushing the community to move on with the Technology. 2010 will be a great push for the Xbox community with the new games and not to mention Project Natal. I understand how this is effect the public because sadly I have a friend who is still using the Original Xbox and was crushed by the fact that she will no long be able to game in Halo2 Online via Xbox. More intel here

(sigh) Agreed

  • 02.17.2010 10:24 AM PDT

Damn, i have to buy HALO 2 again, i have to fork over 20$.
One my last and final game for HALO2,my battle rifle for HALO2 will fire ONE LAST TIME!!!!!!!!!!!

  • 02.17.2010 7:45 PM PDT

Hold your ground, hold your ground! Sons of Bungie, of HALO, my brothers! I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart of me. We knew this day would come, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of Matchmaking, but it is not this day. 2 months of woes and shattered energy shields, when the age of HALO 2 comes crashing down! But it is not this day! This day we play! By all that you hold dear on this good Earth, I bid you play the game one last time, HALO 2!

  • 02.17.2010 7:53 PM PDT

Kill maim'N Destroy!

Posted by: Arrancar Six
Damn, i have to buy HALO 2 again, i have to fork over 20$.
One my last and final game for HALO2,my battle rifle for HALO2 will fire ONE LAST TIME!!!!!!!!!!!
a friend of mine got it for 11 bucks. I still have mine from launch.

  • 02.17.2010 8:20 PM PDT

Posted by: DaProgramma
Well this is just a preview of what to expect. Eventually you won't be able to play halo 3 anymore. But it is really a preview of the much bigger picture. That is you won't be able to play any old games any more at some point. In 10 years (if that long) your halo 3 disc might still work, your 360 too (doubtful), but what about your downloaded maps? title updates?

I don't doubt we will see a Halo2 port to xbox live arcade, but is that really what we want? I see a vision and the vision is microsoft (or game companies really) trying to do what the music and movie publishers have done for so long, namely, getting consumers to buy the same content over and over and over again. There are actually already doing it now.


Absolutely agree with everything you said.

How many years until Halo 3, ODST, and Reach are no longer playable online?

Frankly after Reach I don't plan to buy any more Xbox products. I'm -blam!- done with Microsoft. Knowing that these amazing games will never be playable with friends after a few years makes me so angry.

  • 02.18.2010 1:26 PM PDT
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Hey Bungie.net! My name is Adam, anytime you guys wanna play Halo hit me up with a friend request and I'll be more than glad to accept it. Hope to play with all your gamers out there!

Your are exactly right Pro Kendog! Halo2 was AMAZING while it lasted, yet as gamers we must move on to better games.

  • 03.28.2010 2:38 PM PDT

so does this mean that i can't play halo and halo 2 at all on my xbox 360? or just online (halo 2), either way, that sucks :/

  • 03.30.2010 8:50 PM PDT
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Zach

this makes me so sad I now feel like a part of me is lost but is there anything you can do and halo 2 will always be a part of me bungie has taken over my life I have since the 3rd grade when I bought halo 1 for the PC and then bought an Xbox just for halo2 and then a 360 just halo3 and then I find out I can't even go on halo3 after april 15th this makes me depressed I just hope microsoft never cancels halo 3 servers

  • 04.06.2010 11:10 AM PDT
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Musk

Ah -blam!-e!
I don't think I can handle this!
In all this excitement and confusion about the reach beta, me trying to find out what's really going on, the only thing really hits me is this, and ice cold pain in my stomach.

[Break]

I saw the video of all the good times you guys had with your friends in halo 2, all the secret places, and I really wish I could've had those moments. You see, when I first got halo 2 I didn't have live, so me and my friend really couldn't do all that, but when I got live my best friend didn't have his game any more, so we really couldn't play.
No big deal, I could just wait until he gets it again, can I?
No.

Please bungie, I beg of you to make and online version of halo 2 and 1 for arcade. Just make it like the mythic disk that came with ODST except for arcade.
And don't want new HD graphics or anything like that.
We just want good, old halo.
:.(

Ah screw it!
Put the campaign in there, for we all have those little moments in the campaign too!

I shall always have those childhood halo memories in my heart, but we shall always burn our souls to relive them!

  • 04.07.2010 6:59 PM PDT

laugh you Head off

It makes me sad. I dont own a Xbox 360, nor can I really afford one. I will probably never play with some of my friends online again. I had so many awesome experiences with Halo 2. Some WTF moments. Some angry moments. Most of all, its just so much fun to play. The only reason I got Xbox live was to play Halo 2. Now its gone.

  • 04.12.2010 2:05 PM PDT

Up the -blam!- shut!

Shutting servers down without me knowing + Not ever playing halo 2 matchmaking = The beast that will press the button to bring all servers for the xbox original online!!!!11!!!1!!!!!

MICROSOFT!!!!! WHYYYY??!?!?!?!? I found out today, 2 days before I was gonna get halo 2 and play my butt off. Some people like Halo 2. Some people even like halo 1. Since they shut the servers down, I will never live the experience people are talking about. It makes me sad that all these people are sitting at their computers screaming. BRING THE SERVERS ONLINE!!!!! Dx Don't be an ass microsoft!!! Keep your gamers happy. :(

  • 05.05.2010 9:16 AM PDT

Up the -blam!- shut!

RIGHT ON!!!!!

  • 05.05.2010 9:18 AM PDT

i'm probably a bit late but yep microsoft are being evil by taking something down that was extremely popular, if i had sold my xbox original then i would not have been able to play halo 3+ so it is unfair to those gamers, to me

  • 05.09.2010 1:13 PM PDT