- Curtiss Thompson
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- Exalted Member
Poll: Did you buy Halo: Reach? [closed]
| Yes, I buy all Halo games regardless. I'm a fanboy:
64%
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(23 Votes)
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| Yes, I need a Halo game to ease the loss of Halo 2:
28%
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(10 Votes)
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| Not yet, I'm waiting to try it out before I decide:
0%
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(0 Votes)
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| No! No self-respecting Halo 2 fan would buy Reach:
8%
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(3 Votes)
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Total Votes: 36
I'm curious how many Halo 2 fans went out and bought Halo: Reach.
Personally, I'm with totallymassive on this one. I'm letting my Xbox Live subscription expire and won't be investing any more money in my Xbox 360. The only reason I purchased an Xbox (& Xbox 360) and Xbox Live was to play Halo 2. Now that Halo 2 has been taken offline, I have no reason to continue spending money on my Xbox 360. Halo 2 was the reason I joined Xbox Live and it is the reason I'm leaving Xbox Live.
If you really want to get your message across about the loss of Halo 2's Xbox Live support, then I suggest you do the same. The most effective means of protesting a degradation in the quality of a service is to employ either voice or exit, loyalty to a company who disregards your interests does you no good. Voice is often wasted on a myopic backward-thinking company like Microsoft, they will be more responsive to an economic message. Thus the best means of communicating your discontent with the loss of Xbox Live support for Halo 2 is to stop purchasing new Halo titles that don't live up to the standard set by Halo 2 and (assuming you have no other need for it) to allow your Xbox Live subscription to expire. It is however important to communicate your reason for leaving Xbox Live to Xbox Support, so they may attempt to rectify the situation if they recognize it as beneficial to their interests.
I'm not saying this will be effective in bringing back Halo 2 to Xbox Live, but merely that it is the most effective means, more so than forum polls and complaints to Microsoft that aren't backed up by a loss of your business. Microsoft has done a cost-benefit analysis regarding the continuation of Halo 2 on Xbox Live and due to declining playing of the game. Simply put Halo 2 went offline because the community forgot about it, the only way it will come back is a revival of that community (on Halo 2 Vista for example).
Other means of economically communicating your desires, would be in purchasing a new (emphasis on 'new,' as purchasing used copies won't benefit or be noticed by Microsoft) copy of Halo 2 Vista, as it would indicate a market for the game persists today.