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Posted by: Keyeser Soze
Thank's for deflecting by calling me a troll instead of bringing proof that you played more games than you can count on your fingers.
That doesn't matter one bit. Hell, it could have been me who was the last guy there, and I don't have a single Halo 2 game to my credit on XBL. I played the hell out of it offline in Campaign and System Link, but I didn't get a Gold subscription until after Halo 3 came out, and I *still* almost never play online. But I was gonna hop on there on the 15th and see it to the end just to be a part of it while I could... but I ended up having to work late. So I lost my chance. And anyway, even had I been online, there's no chance my 360 would have lived three weeks being continuously on and connected.
Still, let's not make more out of this than it was. This isn't about who's the best Halo 2 player, or who's logged the most games, or anything else like that. This isn't about who deserves or doesn't deserve anything. It's about who kept Halo 2 alive on Xbox Live. It's a harmless, ultimately unimportant, but still nifty little milestone. Nobody *had* to stay online after the 15th. I think most people left thinking if they went much past midnight they might get booted off in the middle of the game, and they would prefer to end the experience with a finished game rather than right in the middle of one. And of course, once they left, they couldn't come back.
A great deal of this was as the result of pure luck. Still, it comes down to the fact that these last Final Few folks hung in there, as long as they could, by choice. Not one of them stayed awake for three weeks in a row, playing continuously the whole time, but all of them stayed until circumstances removed them by force.
All of them are worthy of respect for this, and as far as I could tell, Apache was always saying that was true.