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Subject: One Final Hump Is All That Remains

It's 12:35AM PDT and me and my friends are still getting Halo 2 matches.......when is the plug being pulled?

  • 04.15.2010 12:33 AM PDT

My question exactly.

  • 04.15.2010 12:35 AM PDT

A lot of people have been asking about the requirements for the Halo: Reach swag. Here's Bungie's memo about it:
http://www.bungie.net/news/content.aspx?type=news&cid=255 83

The important part:
"You don't need to find us and make us dead to win some free stuff. We'll have Halo: Reach flair for anyone who plays and plenty of other prizes on offer for anyone that achieves one of many super secret metrics we're not disclosing. Just play. That's all we ask."

Just finished up for the night. Seeing my old clan members (none online, most without Live now - just the list of people!) was an awesome experience. So many great memories. Thanks, Bungie. You guys are incredible. Sad we didn't all play with you, but maybe we can in Reach, with some killer emblems to boot.

And consider me for a job sometime, I'm current electrical engineering/computer science undergrad at MIT :)

  • 04.15.2010 12:40 AM PDT

Posted by: RMGeneralBull
It's 12:35AM PDT and me and my friends are still getting Halo 2 matches.......when is the plug being pulled?


yeah... i wanted to be playing when the servers when dark, but it's 3:43 here on the east coast. i dunno if i can stay up much longer.

  • 04.15.2010 12:41 AM PDT

Posted by: RMGeneralBull
It's 12:35AM PDT and me and my friends are still getting Halo 2 matches.......when is the plug being pulled?


I read on another thread that the servers would shut down at 3 AM Pacific time. This sounds likely, since that would at least let the Hawaii players get all their matches in.

The countdown on Major Nelson's blog has reached 0, and all it says is that it will be shut down "today".

  • 04.15.2010 12:42 AM PDT

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last full game was rockets on ascension. halo 2, at least for me went out the way it should have. With a bang.

  • 04.15.2010 12:42 AM PDT

[A long time ago there was a boy, kidnapped from his home and trained to be a soldier. He excelled at all things given to him, but he didn’t enjoy the spotlight, thankfully John also excelled. John and Fred were promoted to N.C.O.'s of all the Spartans. M.C.P.O. Spartan-117-John & S.P.O. Spartan-104-Fred. I haven't seen John since before the Dyson Sphere. I now rule my Empire and have taken on the name Animalistic. My Brethren may be MIA but they will live on forever through me ~ SPOSpartan104]

I have played some of the best matches of halo tonight that I have ever played. It was an amazing way to send Halo 2 out with a Bang. I really cannot say this enough Thank you so much for this Bungie you have no idea what Halo has done for me. :)
Signing off,
~SPOSpartan104/EmprAnimalistic
PS if you want to sometime convert Halo2 for the 360 I'm sure no one will mind ;)

  • 04.15.2010 12:43 AM PDT

“If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.”
-Sun Tzu

I played with bs angel also, is she related to Bungie?

Well, its almost 1am PT and it hasn't been shut down...I wonder if the Xbox LIVE team went into trouble...?

  • 04.15.2010 12:50 AM PDT
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Awwww my halo 2 live just got disconnected :(

RIP Halo 2 - you shall never be forgotton. :(

I will never forget you. Thank you Bungie for the amazing game!, I will never love a game like this.

And Microsoft you suck for doing this!

  • 04.15.2010 12:53 AM PDT
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I'm in Canada bc and they disconnected me :(

  • 04.15.2010 12:56 AM PDT

Halo 2 > Halo 3

R.I.P. Halo 2

Im so upset to see it go, Halo 2 was imo the best in the series, so sad i cant could't play today due to my 360 getting repairs and i lost my original xbox long ago

RIP Halo 2

Thank you so much bungie for this wonderful game, i will never forget all the joy this game has brought to me, i wish there was some way so see how many hours i put into it, countless. but i thank you.

Earth will never be the same

[Edited on 04.15.2010 1:12 AM PDT]

  • 04.15.2010 1:06 AM PDT

Do you have to play in matchmaking or can you play in customs on XBL to get credit for the Halo Reach thing?

  • 04.15.2010 1:12 AM PDT

does anyone know the prizes and what the reach flair was?

  • 04.15.2010 1:13 AM PDT

well there is still hope everybody needs to go and download xbconnect this way we can all still play any xbox1 game that has system link online for free including halo1!!!! we have clan support and everything please spread the word and tell all your friends the fight must go on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • 04.15.2010 1:14 AM PDT

www.xbconnect.com

  • 04.15.2010 1:15 AM PDT

Posted by: mike12bday
I'm in Canada bc and they disconnected me :(


i live in the same place and i still have live, i just turned it off 5 minutes ago, to bad, i wanted to play till live went dark
my last games were definitly not my best but im glad i got to play games on 3 of my 4 favorate maps, Headlong, Terminal, and Containment. i wish Turf was a big team map

RIP Halo 2 Live! you shall never be forgotten, I Salute you!

[Edited on 04.15.2010 1:35 AM PDT]

  • 04.15.2010 1:26 AM PDT

There's: The Good, The Bad & The GOD LIKE!

Ok it is now way past due for shutdown but I am still getting games whats the deal I want to be on when it goes & this is making it relly hard to accomplish...

  • 04.15.2010 1:29 AM PDT

3:34 EST and I'm still playing!

Make that 3:47

[Edited on 04.15.2010 1:46 AM PDT]

  • 04.15.2010 1:33 AM PDT

I don't even own an xbox 360 anymore because of all the hardware issues I've had with microsoft, but let me tell you this. I LOVE HALO, HALO 2, AND HALO 3, and I made plans to be here at my friends house on this memorable farewell night to our beloved halo 2 online madness.

So thank you bungie for all these awesome memories and good times with friends and strangers. I will seriously never forget this game or the first time I logged into xbox live and played halo 2 w/ my good buds.

Tonight has been exceptionally great not only due to the flood gate of memories this game unleashes, but mainly because this game is still BADASS!!!

Peace, cya in the REACH beta guys!

  • 04.15.2010 1:37 AM PDT

3 in the morning and still going strong

  • 04.15.2010 1:45 AM PDT

4:54 EST and still going. gettin kinda tired.

  • 04.15.2010 1:52 AM PDT

“If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.”
-Sun Tzu

As of 4:57 ET...there are still:

Players Online:
3,041

Playing 'till they pull the plug is getting really hard...I'm soo tired, I've been playing at least for 6 hours straight.

Please Xbox LIVE team, be serious about your timing!

  • 04.15.2010 1:56 AM PDT

That's it.

They pulled the plug at 5 AM EST / 2 PDT

  • 04.15.2010 2:04 AM PDT

Grim

PST is 3 hours later. its only 2:07out here. u have another hour

  • 04.15.2010 2:05 AM PDT

Wow, all this crack is coming in handy!

  • 04.15.2010 2:07 AM PDT