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Subject: Halo 2 is shutting down yet no one is PLAYING IT!

I got your FLAG BLUE TEAM!

WTF guys? Halo 2 is going to die and still its empty. We must support it in last glorious moments!

  • 02.08.2010 7:21 PM PDT

derp

I didn't even used to play Halo 3. I'm a Halo 3 player by heart. However, I've been playing as much Halo 2 as possible now, and it sucks not being able to find a match in anything other than rumble pit or team training.

  • 02.08.2010 7:24 PM PDT

Team SWAT seems to be pretty populated during the nights, I can always find a match there.

  • 02.08.2010 7:26 PM PDT

I got your FLAG BLUE TEAM!

Even though I have barely played any Halo 2 games (starting tommorow ALL HALO 2) I found a match that took less than 30 seconds. That is my fastest matchmaking time (not kidding).

  • 02.08.2010 7:28 PM PDT

I am going to play it right now. It gives me funny feelings.

  • 02.08.2010 8:31 PM PDT
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So do all who live to see such times, but that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.

-Gandalf

Umm... Actually I would play it now, but my friend is barrowing it to play the online and the campaign.

  • 02.08.2010 8:46 PM PDT
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I'd love to play but the DLC servers are down and you need all the Halo 2 DLC in order to play matchmaking and I currently do not have all the DLC on my hard drive.

  • 02.08.2010 9:06 PM PDT

Posted by: Vashkey
I'd love to play but the DLC servers are down and you need all the Halo 2 DLC in order to play matchmaking and I currently do not have all the DLC on my hard drive.


This seems to be causing problems for a lot of people right now. Still no official word on what is being done to fix this problem. Seems like we are stuck in a wait and see pattern.

  • 02.08.2010 11:29 PM PDT
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Posted by: DR WE1RD
Posted by: Vashkey
I'd love to play but the DLC servers are down and you need all the Halo 2 DLC in order to play matchmaking and I currently do not have all the DLC on my hard drive.


This seems to be causing problems for a lot of people right now. Still no official word on what is being done to fix this problem. Seems like we are stuck in a wait and see pattern.

I just hope the pattern doesnt continue till April Fifteenth. I check these forums and Halo 2 on a daily basis to see if anything actually happens.

If they aren't going to do anything they should at least have the decency to tell us.

  • 02.09.2010 12:00 AM PDT
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halo 2 still the best game in the series. long live halo 2.

Dam, I miss the old days playing halo 2 with my old brothers in arms. Thank you my old friends for giving me this account, I shall continue our legacy.

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Posted by: Vashkey
I'd love to play but the DLC servers are down and you need all the Halo 2 DLC in order to play matchmaking and I currently do not have all the DLC on my hard drive.


This seems to be causing problems for a lot of people right now. Still no official word on what is being done to fix this problem. Seems like we are stuck in a wait and see pattern.


Hopefully they"ll fix the dlc issue before the deadline. It would suck not being able to fully enjoy halo 2 matchmaking due to MS's incompetence.

  • 02.09.2010 10:00 AM PDT

"I wanted to make people happy, if only for an hour."
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RIP Halo 2

Yeah, I can't play because of the maps. I longed for it so bad I sat in custom games superbouncing alone.

  • 02.09.2010 10:35 AM PDT

WTF guys? Halo 2 is going to die and still its empty. We must support it in last glorious moments!
It's because you're not seeing the influx of people who hadn't regularly played Halo 2 after Halo 3 was released...and they're not playing because they can't download the maps they need to go into the play lists.

  • 02.09.2010 10:40 AM PDT

Its okay when halo 2 is available on xbox 360 originals I think it might get more popular again.

  • 02.09.2010 11:06 AM PDT
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and they're not playing because they can't download the maps they need to go into the play lists.

Add me to that list-I had the maps but deleted them to clear space on my amazing 20gig hard drive.....

  • 02.09.2010 11:07 AM PDT

I got your FLAG BLUE TEAM!

Posted by: RudeArbiter
Its okay when halo 2 is available on xbox 360 originals I think it might get more popular again.


No one knows if that is going to happen.

  • 02.09.2010 12:11 PM PDT

Why not stop by my File Share while you're here?

~Long Live Halo 2
Only regret is I didn't play more of it.

If you haven't noticed by now, I'm sort of a jerk.

Posted by: Love Slice
I didn't even used to play Halo 3. I'm a Halo 3 player by heart. However, I've been playing as much Halo 2 as possible now, and it sucks not being able to find a match in anything other than rumble pit or team training.
Search double team, It usually takes me a minute to find a match there.

  • 02.09.2010 1:32 PM PDT

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

I usually play at night. Usually, but if everything fails, I can always get a match going in Team SWAT.

And for you guys who don't have any of the maps, if you get the Halo 2 Multiplayer Map Pack, you can still play Big Team Battles. I bought one at the local Play N Trade right before I started playing Halo 2, and downloaded them to my HDD. But back in January they still had the DLCs up, so I was able to download the Mythic Map Pack as well.

It was like $9.00, just see if your local mom and pop shop have a copy and Ii'll see you in Big Team Battles at least.

[Edited on 02.09.2010 3:15 PM PST]

  • 02.09.2010 3:13 PM PDT

The candy man can!
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Somebody with extreme moral value is about to post and tell you how bad it is that you're going to miss one day of school. Just wait for it... wait for it...

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Education is the most important thing in your life. Don't skip it for a video game.

Tada!

I can't play. DLC. GODDAMN YOU MICROSOFT!!!

  • 02.09.2010 3:23 PM PDT

I got your FLAG BLUE TEAM!

I am so thankful that I still have all the map packs. Got a slayer game this afternoon too, but I got destroyed.

  • 02.09.2010 4:09 PM PDT

Sanity is subjective.

Posted by: Vashkey
I'd love to play but the DLC servers are down and you need all the Halo 2 DLC in order to play matchmaking and I currently do not have all the DLC on my hard drive.

Yeah, this seems to be a real pain. Every time I go over to my friends house to play halo2, finding a match takes forever, due to the fact that no one can get the DLC.

  • 02.09.2010 4:25 PM PDT

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Posted by: Vashkey
I'd love to play but the DLC servers are down and you need all the Halo 2 DLC in order to play matchmaking and I currently do not have all the DLC on my hard drive.

Yeah, this seems to be a real pain. Every time I go over to my friends house to play halo2, finding a match takes forever, due to the fact that no one can get the DLC.


I got 7 people in about 30 seconds after I started. Then I quit out because it was taking too long to drop one guy and start the game.

  • 02.09.2010 4:41 PM PDT

YOU'RE STILL ALIVE?!?

I know! Why are people not playing? The reason I'm not playing right now is because my gold membership is over.

  • 02.09.2010 7:10 PM PDT
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Posted by: RudeArbiter
Its okay when halo 2 is available on xbox 360 originals I think it might get more popular again.

Xbox original discontinued a long time ago. They aren't going to put up any more original xbox games for purchase on Live again.

  • 02.09.2010 9:51 PM PDT

Posted by: Vashkey
Posted by: RudeArbiter
Its okay when halo 2 is available on xbox 360 originals I think it might get more popular again.

Xbox original discontinued a long time ago. They aren't going to put up any more original xbox games for purchase on Live again.


All of the Xbox Classic games in the Games on Demand section came out after they discontinued the Xbox 1 when the 360 came out. Microsoft was very quick to kill the first Xbox.

Granted, I'm not sure if you'd be able to play Halo 2 online. I don't know how they classify the live of the original games in the Marketplace.

As for DLC, if you have the Halo 2 Multiplayer Map Pack stand-alone disk you can play any of the unranked playlists. I know. I've done it. It sill allows you go download the updates required to play, just not the maps. Maybe rehashing old info here but with these things its best to say it as many times as possible.

As for playing, Halo 2 is all I'll be playing when I play on XBL. Hope more people start playing again.

[Edited on 02.09.2010 10:22 PM PST]

  • 02.09.2010 10:21 PM PDT

I don't even know.

The end is nigh, and I will give Halo 2 a proper farewell. Oh Halo 2... You wasted so much of my time during High School...

  • 02.09.2010 10:35 PM PDT

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