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R.I.P. Halo 2
11/9/04 - 4/15/10
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Posted by: totallymassive
how were they losing money, if anything halo 2 was helping it's other titles make money by keeping halo fans happy with a diverse gaming experience through all of it's titles. to bad halo 3 and halo reach were just plain different in a bad way but some might enjoy it's unrealistic and annoying gameplay.
I recall playing halo 2 and talking about other halo's, therefore adding to the halo brand instead of them playing cod or gears were those brands took over from halo 2. that's why halo is in a tail spin and why other franchises are doing real well. I loved Halo 2. I played it pretty regularly even after Halo 3 was out, which I was in no way disappointed with I might add. But let's be honest here, original Xbox LIVE was not earning MS any money.
Towards the end of it's life, there were rarely even 1000 players online in Halo 2, and Halo 2 had the biggest population of all Xbox originals by far. Halo 2 was no longer the driving force behind Xbox and Xbox LIVE. Nobody was buying a 360 to play it, and MS had already stopped production for copies of the game. So it wasn't helping them sell any more consoles, and they weren't making any money on selling the game itself.