I remember the endless games on Bloodgulch with 15 flag caps, all vehicles enabled, with Red team camping the cliff and me with an MA5B Assault Rifle, 4 Frags, and a Flamethrower, M6D Pistol, and M90 Shotgun (12 rounds). I remember when the only way to keep the enemy from using the Scorpion was to kill it, steal it, and horde it. I remember when it wasn't about Rank or cR or what armor you had, it was about how many of your friends you killed. Yeah, I remember Halo: Combat Evolved.
You never know. With company-run servers being admin-less and generally very... poor quality (a la MW2, or Halo 2), Pirates could very easily make Halo PC famous again.
Me and a friend (Master Gunz) had a full server for 6 solid hours with just my mods. And then my was-more-for-self-amusement-not-public-use Zero-Gravity Boarding Action came on and cleaned the server out. Easy come easy go, lol