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Subject: End of halo 3 online 2013?

1 month ago i heard that halo 2 ended its online play this year halo 2 was out for 6 years so halo games online last for 6 years? so that means will halo 3 online end 2013 and halo reach 2016? then in 2016 its bye bye to halo???

  • 09.01.2010 7:37 AM PDT

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You can't predict how popular Halo 3 is going to be past the Reach release date.

Bungie isn't going to take it offline in 3 years, just because they did with Halo 2.

  • 09.01.2010 7:40 AM PDT
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All it took was a stew of whoopass.

Just because one game ended a certain time doesn't mean they all will.

  • 09.01.2010 7:42 AM PDT

it was a question i didnt really mean it

  • 09.01.2010 7:44 AM PDT
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bungie didnt take it off, xbox removed servers for oringinal xbox games, including halo 2

  • 09.01.2010 7:45 AM PDT

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Halo 3 and Reach run on the same servers. They won't shut it down for a long time.

  • 09.01.2010 7:45 AM PDT

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Posted by: eselchen
Halo 3 and Reach run on the same servers. They won't shut it down for a long time.


Good point.

  • 09.01.2010 7:50 AM PDT

Dude, totally mistaken. Xbox ended online gameplay for ALL xbox originals, not just halo 2. By the time online gameplay ends for halo 3, it will end for every other Xbox 360 game as well.

  • 09.01.2010 7:51 AM PDT
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Posted by: xXR3V1VALXx
bungie didnt take it off, xbox removed servers for oringinal xbox games, including halo 2




This, dam microsoft is so greedy...

  • 09.01.2010 8:22 AM PDT

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Only regret is I didn't play more of it.

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

Bungie didn't take any games offline, Microsoft did.
Microsoft didn't end Halo 2, they ended ALL original Xbox games online.
Halo 3 and Reach would end at the same time, as they are for the same system. And seeing as M$ likes to milk things dry, that probably won't be happening for a while.
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You can't predict how popular Halo 3 is going to be past the Reach release date.

Bungie isn't going to take it offline in 3 years, just because they did with Halo 2.

  • 09.01.2010 8:26 AM PDT
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or it could of been because Halo 3, Halo ODST and halo Reach came out. So basically after three games have come out- The End of Reach, even though it's not likely that more Halo games will come out.

  • 09.01.2010 8:41 AM PDT

Catch me on Halo. XBl: gobbybobby

it was a dick move by M$ to remove support for Xbox consoles and games. Then they raise the price for some people. Pfff

  • 09.01.2010 9:24 AM PDT

Who knows, but i dont see it going anywhere for quite some time.

  • 09.01.2010 9:28 AM PDT


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Halo is a vast universe of many races, many wars and many different players and in many hearts and minds, it is a world with vast unimaginable power. It's where many of us just want to get away from our parents, or play with someone from across the world. Its a world of Freedom, friendship, conflict and a world of pure world domination.


WTF it's just a game dude.

  • 09.01.2010 9:31 AM PDT
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I agree. Plus why would you terminate the live on those games anyway?

  • 09.01.2010 9:49 AM PDT


Posted by: Soks117
I agree. Plus why would you terminate the live on those games anyway?
Xbox Live support was shut down because it was interfering with the progress of the Xbox 360. With the limited capabilities of the original Xbox games, apparently they would not be able to support some of the changes Microsoft plans on making in the near/distant future with the 360. Therefore XBL Support was shut down in order to make the overall XBL 360 experience better.
I have yet to see results myself.

No, Halo 3 won't be shut down in 2013. It will be shut down the same time Halo: Reach is shut down.

No, Halo 3 does not use the same servers as Halo: Reach. Halo 3 users the Halo: Reach BETA servers. You know, the ones we made explode (quite literally) the first day of the beta? Yeah. They fixed those and moved Halo 3 to them.
Halo: Reach is getting brand new servers.

  • 09.01.2010 9:59 AM PDT

Go Reach.

No, no, no... Halo 3 may stop in 2013 or '14, but I'm guess Halo 3 will stop in like 2015 or 2016. As for Reach, well, I don't think it will die for a LOOOONG time, say maybe 2020 or '25

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  • 09.01.2010 10:29 AM PDT

Go Reach.

I think the next Bungie game will be Marathon, and it will tie in with the Halo games. This guy Phearmaker has a great theory that makes sense: http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=13879867

  • 09.01.2010 10:32 AM PDT