As you know, you can now no longer play halo 2 mp.
i find this odd because halo is far older and still has multiplayer. Can some one explain why?

Microsoft is ending original xbox live support. Halo pc...doesn't use xbox live.

because bungie for the mp they gave it to gamespy so.... bungie doesnt own the mp server like h2. so bungie has no control over it.

can't play halo 2 multiplayer? Thats a lie, because I can still play on my PC.

it's Xbox live for original games that's shutting down. I find it stupid they're unable to support it personally...saying it'll free up space for other spot is totally ridiculous.

Did the date already come or when is it happening?

April 21st or something I thought, I just know it to be near the Reach beta.

It's so we can have more than 100 friends on our friends list, among other things.

I'll miss halo 2 xbox live. all those great mp matches.

Geuss i'll have to get halo 2 pc :(

They got 3 free moths of Xbox Live Gold and 400 free microsoft points.

lol if they needed to free up space they'd add more space and servers.

Halo 2 Vista Servers are different, there all dedicated on someone's PC, aswell as the matchmaing servers. and its uber-tech upgrades gets rid of the old H2 feel.

im gonna need to go over
to cousins so we can play halo 2 one last time!

Incorrect. They are removing the old Xbox Live (this also removes Halo 2 Xbox's Multiplayer) because it made the 360 have a 100 friend list limit. Removing it fixed the problem.

I think so, everyone who played Halo 2 online that is (don't know if that's for people with an xbox 360, and if you have played before a certain date, but all my friends who played Halo 2 on the 360 a few months ago got it.)

Businesses don't think that way. Why waste the money getting new servers and space when you can cancel support for an older product and allow room for newer ones therefore forcing all the people who used the older product to have to purchase the newer one. It's all just marketing and a cheap way to make more money.

uh, it's MS? They can add whatever the hell they want to their servers. Even if you were right, they would need to buy more server space anyway, whatever XBox1 is being kept alive on probably isn't much at all, in fact it probably is only a small fraction of the extra space they'll feel they hypothetically need.

You're speaking like you know how everything works in a real production environment. You have no idea why they dropped it, they most likely had many reasons, obviously some they're not going to tell the public. A main one being they probably don't want to support obsolete hardware (xbox 1).

Which makes more money for them because a copy of Halo 3 is still more expensive than Halo 2.
It's all just to get more people to use Xbox Live the way it is now.

Man now i realy hate M$. i used to hate em but now there just stupid money pigs.

They're a business. A business makes money in a free market economy like the one we have. MS is one of the most successful businesses in the world and is a perfect example of what a free market economy is about.

Go AppleBox!!!!!

I never thought I'd see the day...........
Edited by FlyAwayNow on Mar 28, 2010 at 08:49 AM

I want H2Vista. So, they are keeping it, right?

Simply, The Original Xbox's live system has hardcoded features that limits the Xbox 360s to new features that would come, therefore removing Original Xbox Live, allows newer features, such as teh bigger friends list and IP-TV.

Also I heard rumors of a new dashboard next April (2011) Like Blade System>NXE>New Dash

Why the hell would anyone need over 100 friends anyway? Unless you're some kind of noob who has no life and asks everyone on live they meet to be their friend.

I'm always hitting the 100 friend limit, and most of the people I have on my list are people i know IRL.

That is because our smaller states are larger than Beligum. At only 30Ksq km Beligum is smaller than New York @ 141K Sq km. This is one of those times were size does really matter.

They tried that. Apple teamed up with Bandai back in 1995 to attempt to make a game console called the Pippin. As you can guess, it didn't go so well. Apple hasn't tried to touch the gaming market since then.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Pippin