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Posted by: Dr Syx
Get used to Microsoft bull-blam!-ing you. The longer you're around, the more you won't even take a second glance at it. In reality I bet they just needed some more servers for something else so they went cheap and used the original Xbox servers instead of buying new ones. They had to make up some sort of situation where it would be beneficial to everyone so people weren't so mad at them for it.
Not many people at all were on the original servers before the announcement came that they were being shut down. People will have you believe there were almost as many as there were on Halo 3 which is an absolute lie. There were two games that were populated. One was Halo 2 and the other was Star Wars Battlefront II. I'm willing to bet they figured since the population was so low that no one cared. They didn't count on the "hipster" culture of gamers where they care oh so much about something when they're losing it but couldn't care less when they think they'll have it forever.
They shouldn't have brought down the servers. Even if they did, they should have sold it to the community to use instead but since that's not how Microsoft likes to run things, they just went with the evil "It's gone and you'll have to accept it." approach.
I remembered they tried to buy us off by offering 3 months of Xbox Live and 800 MS Points plus an invite to the Halo: Reach beta.
I think they should've just run two seperate xbox live services if they were really telling the truth. However with your theory, I find it hard to believe there'd be a shortage of servers for Xbox 360's Xbox Live. There was one time during the holiday season, I forgot which year it was, but original xbox was still up at the time, too many people signed on and most of the servers crash to the point where only a few people could connect to Live and even then, those few people were unable to communicate or play with each other. That happened to me, I was able to sign on, but only 2 out of 100 friends were only and even messaging wasn't working properly. However, since then, there hasn't been any issues like that again so I don't think additional servers were required.
There were some game developers that agreed with Microsoft's statements about the architecture of Xbox Live. They specifically mentioned how Original Xbox Live was strictly limited to 100 friends and couldn't be changed no matter what. I could believe that. However, since Microsoft never expanded the friends list limit, I still have my doubts.