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Subject: It could be good that it's shutting down.

The population really was low lately, and while many of us love the gameplay, we didn't really have the patience to wait so long between games, and it's mostly just held as very fond memories of a game superior to Halo 3 in gameplay, but not in population.

But with a finite time left, we might really get a chance to have some oldschool Halo 2 magic in the final weeks, where people are using their last chance to play the game on XBL.

Playlists might have enough players in the last 2 weeks to feel like the old days: imagine playing a whole evening of nonstop Halo 2 Team Slayer, nobody getting particularly angry if they lose, since their rank will disappear in a few weeks anyway.

I can't wait for April to come around so I finally get to play some Collosus Team Rifles, Relic 1 Flag, Sanctuary Neutral Flag, Beaver Creek, Lockout, Midship, Warlock... I could go on.

I really hope this game goes out with a bang, I want some fun like we had back in those days, the fun so many of us feel Halo 3 didn't deliver.

Thanks for the memories, Bungie, and I hope we can squeeze a few more out of Halo 2's final Xbox Live hours.

[Edited on 02.06.2010 8:53 PM PST]

  • 02.06.2010 8:52 PM PDT
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Why would it be good?

  • 02.06.2010 9:00 PM PDT
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I cant find any good out of this.

  • 02.06.2010 9:16 PM PDT

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Yeah, I'm stumped at to how this is good. Why can't they just leave a few playlists running (Slayer, Team Slayer, Team Snipes) on 1 server? How many people would it take to monitor and maintain it? 2? 3 people?

  • 02.06.2010 9:31 PM PDT

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RIP Halo 2

I see your point. Many of us have all longed to have a night of Halo 2 like it was before Halo 3. This is our only chance. We have to make the most out of it. But that all depends on whether the DLC is put back up or not.

  • 02.06.2010 9:42 PM PDT
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R.I.P. Halo 2
11/9/04 - 4/15/10

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I fail to see any good in this. All I see happening is one of my favorite games of all time, the game that got me into online gaming, having it's throat slit. Slit for some stupid XBL feature. Probably a friends list extension. Which in other words, it's being killed for no reason at all. Not one person out there plays with all 100 of their friends. I would be willing to bet a large sum of money on that.

[Edited on 02.06.2010 11:49 PM PST]

  • 02.06.2010 9:52 PM PDT

yea how is this any good. i bought an xbox and xbox live solely for halo 2, and if you check my service record i only started playing in december, and ive been having more fun than ever with it . now its being shut down and u say its good. id rather wait a couple minutes to play a fun game of halo 2 than have an instant game of halo 3 full of 10 year old bk's

  • 02.06.2010 10:28 PM PDT

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

This is good................. WHY?

  • 02.06.2010 10:36 PM PDT

Think of it this way, you will no longer have to face against cheaters. If you do a lan and you see it happening, you can finally do something about it ;)

  • 02.07.2010 10:03 AM PDT
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Posted by: Iceberg Halo3
Think of it this way, you will no longer have to face against cheaters. If you do a lan and you see it happening, you can finally do something about it ;)
Ok... um... I don't see how Halo 2 having Xbox LIVE stops anyone from having LAN parties.

Right now:
- I can have Halo 2 LAN parties.
- I can play Halo 2 multiplayer whenever I want via Xbox LIVE.
- I can relive the Halo 2 Xbox LIVE experience.

Post April 15, 2010:
- I can have Halo 2 LAN parties.

  • 02.07.2010 10:31 AM PDT

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im still going to miss it, like a lost lim :(

  • 02.07.2010 10:52 AM PDT

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BECAUSE alot of people are on right now, more than there normally would be.

  • 02.07.2010 11:52 AM PDT

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Soo its good thats the best Xbox game is shutting down? Yeah real smart pal.

  • 02.07.2010 12:03 PM PDT

Now, finally, in 2010, I can finally play Halo 2 online like I've always wanted to since November of 2004.

Unfortunatly, I kinda agree. I'd actually *GASP* be okay with Halo 2 going offline IF *GASP* it goes on the live marketplace WITH *GASP* online play enabled AND *GASP* comes with an automatic 10 year old British trashtalking Kid detector and lets them only play a game against the Covenant forces.

*GASP*

Ufortunatly, we all that's not going to happen.

  • 02.07.2010 10:53 PM PDT

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Shutting down Halo 2 for Xbox is a way of Microsoft to secretly promote the 360 even more and at the very least Halo 2 Vista.

  • 02.07.2010 11:25 PM PDT

I think its going to be both good and bad. It sucks that it's going away and all but at the same time, we don't know what is going on behind the scene's. They may be doing something totally awesome with xbox live that they wouldn't be able to do otherwise. I am going to reserve judgment until after it is gone, and whatever updates they are planning are in place.

Also a friendly reminder to play nice. Its alright to disagree with others but do so tastefully, no flaming.

  • 02.07.2010 11:39 PM PDT

Posted by: DR WE1RD
I think its going to be both good and bad. It sucks that it's going away and all but at the same time, we don't know what is going on behind the scene's. They may be doing something totally awesome with xbox live that they wouldn't be able to do otherwise. I am going to reserve judgment until after it is gone, and whatever updates they are planning are in place.

Also a friendly reminder to play nice. Its alright to disagree with others but do so tastefully, no flaming.

What, increase the friends limit? Pfft. I've had my 360 for 2 years and I haven't hit 100 once. It's absurd.

  • 02.08.2010 4:39 AM PDT

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Posted by: DR WE1RD
I think its going to be both good and bad. It sucks that it's going away and all but at the same time, we don't know what is going on behind the scene's. They may be doing something totally awesome with xbox live that they wouldn't be able to do otherwise. I am going to reserve judgment until after it is gone, and whatever updates they are planning are in place.

Also a friendly reminder to play nice. Its alright to disagree with others but do so tastefully, no flaming.

What, increase the friends limit? Pfft. I've had my 360 for 2 years and I haven't hit 100 once. It's absurd.


What he's saying is that they may do something awesome that we don't know about yet, so he's reserving judgment about the matter until after the shut down of Halo 2 LIVE.

  • 02.08.2010 5:00 AM PDT

Posted by: Chupanebre627
What, increase the friends limit? Pfft. I've had my 360 for 2 years and I haven't hit 100 once. It's absurd.


It may be more than that, the rumors are flying all over the place with this news. Some say more friends, other say its because of Project Natal, and still others speculate its because they wanna come out with another console. I have also heard that it will free up more servers for more current games, making a better faster experience for everyone that plays online. I don't know whats true and what isn't at this point so I'm kinda in a wait and see mode.

  • 02.08.2010 5:02 AM PDT