Halo 1 & 2 for PC
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Subject: Halo PC: The Halo That Never Existed
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Posted by: General Heed
Oh one more reason why I like halo 2 vista and games for windows live is that I enjoy surprising my friends with games invites to halo 2.
You're one of those guys! Do you know how many people invite me to play with them on Halo 2 Vista when I'm on Halo 3/Reach or the opposite with invites to games on the 360!? Why do they think they're special enough for me to switch platforms!? I have a hard time figuring out why they'd feel they're special enough for me to change games, let alone a platform! I hardly know any of them!

/rant

[Edited on 04.22.2012 10:48 PM PDT]

  • 04.22.2012 10:47 PM PDT

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Posted by: Dr Syx
Posted by: General Heed
Oh one more reason why I like halo 2 vista and games for windows live is that I enjoy surprising my friends with games invites to halo 2.
You're one of those guys! Do you know how many people invite me to play with them on Halo 2 Vista when I'm on Halo 3/Reach or the opposite with invites to games on the 360!? Why do they think they're special enough for me to switch platforms!? I have a hard time figuring out why they'd feel they're special enough for me to change games, let alone a platform! I hardly know any of them!

/rant


Well, it's not that I like bugging them. It's that they're not aware of the existence of GFWL and therefore, they ask me all sorts of silly questions like how did I hook my PC up to my Xbox to sign onto Live or vice versa.

I only do it to friends that have never seen Halo 2 PC before or even heard of GFWL. If they already play PC games or they know about GFWL, then there's no point in me inviting them. When I invite them, I don't expect them to change games or platforms. Mainly because they wouldn't even have any Live-enabled PC games, if they even play PC games to begin with (majority of my friends list are console-only gamers).

I got started on that because the very first time I signed onto Halo 2 PC back in 2007, a couple of my friends sent me messages expressing extreme shock and disbelief at what I was playing. The more intelligent of those friends assumed I was using an Xbox emulator on the PC to play Halo 2. I guess it was a close assumption, but still far off. I found their theories and shocks to be very entertaining so ever since, I like to surprise friends with PC games.

[Edited on 04.23.2012 11:55 AM PDT]

  • 04.23.2012 11:53 AM PDT

This is the average H2 Fanboy.
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50 in H2/H3? Great, but you still fail at this.


Posted by: Dr Syx
Posted by: General Heed
Oh one more reason why I like halo 2 vista and games for windows live is that I enjoy surprising my friends with games invites to halo 2.
You're one of those guys! Do you know how many people invite me to play with them on Halo 2 Vista when I'm on Halo 3/Reach or the opposite with invites to games on the 360!? Why do they think they're special enough for me to switch platforms!? I have a hard time figuring out why they'd feel they're special enough for me to change games, let alone a platform! I hardly know any of them!

/rant


It could have been worse, I used to get CoD invites while playing on the Xbox 1 pre shutdown.

  • 04.23.2012 1:36 PM PDT

Bring Back Rocket Race!!!


Posted by: JacobGRocks

Posted by: Dr Syx
Posted by: General Heed
Oh one more reason why I like halo 2 vista and games for windows live is that I enjoy surprising my friends with games invites to halo 2.
You're one of those guys! Do you know how many people invite me to play with them on Halo 2 Vista when I'm on Halo 3/Reach or the opposite with invites to games on the 360!? Why do they think they're special enough for me to switch platforms!? I have a hard time figuring out why they'd feel they're special enough for me to change games, let alone a platform! I hardly know any of them!

/rant


It could have been worse, I used to get CoD invites while playing on the Xbox 1 pre shutdown.


I never fully understood why Microsoft had to shutdown original Xbox Live. They claimed it was due to the architecture restrictions that prevented the Xbox 360's version of live from being improved any further. However, since they've shutdown original xbox live, I haven't noticed any improvements to the system that would've required a vastly different architecture. The friends list still has the 100 friends limit and party chat is still limited to 8 people. There aren't really any new features other than the upgraded Kinect Video Chat which most likely runs independently of Xbox Live's architecture.

Even if the architecture had to be changed, Microsoft could just run two sets of servers for Xbox Live. One for the original xbox and one for the 360. While this may prevent cross-platform communication, it isn't really important since messaging between platforms wasn't perfect to begin with. I would've been willing to pay for 2 seperate xbox live services (as long as original xbox live is a lot cheaper).

  • 04.26.2012 11:51 AM PDT
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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.

[Edited on 04.26.2012 12:14 PM PDT]

  • 04.26.2012 12:06 PM PDT

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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.

  • 04.26.2012 12:33 PM PDT
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My theory wasn't at all that they're using those servers for Xbox 360's live. I said they're probably using those servers for something else. I never said specifically what for. They could be using them for Hotmail for all I know. (No. I'm not suggesting they're using it for Hotmail. I know that you'll misread that and think that's what I mean.) I could just easily imagine Microsoft sitting there thinking they could easily save money on buying servers if they just used the original Xbox servers instead of buying new ones for stuff.

  • 04.26.2012 1:31 PM PDT