Xbox Live To Drop Original Xbox Support This April

" @TheGreatGuero: Wow, I remember waiting in line at midnight to get it. (Not a big Halo fan, but my friends wanted to go)  The Gamestop guys asked me if I wanted the collectors edition for $10 more. I didn't know better at the time since it was my first encounter with a collector editions.  ... I still don't think I ever watched that DVD XD "

" @TheGreatGuero: Wow, I remember waiting in line at midnight to get it. (Not a big Halo fan, but my friends wanted to go)  The Gamestop guys asked me if I wanted the collectors edition for $10 more. I didn't know better at the time since it was my first encounter with a collector editions.  ... I still don't think I ever watched that DVD XD "

ahhhhhhhhhhh wtf?! 
 
 
jk i dont care at all. 

You mean I can't play against my friends in Whacked?

I've played a few here and there, but the only reason for using my old Xbox was for Marvel vs Capcom 2 until it came out on XBLA.  
 
However, if people start to get excited about playing Cat and Mouse in PGR2 or something crazy like that, I am all in.

What's with the reference to Tao Feng? Someone care to explain why Jeff mentioned that?

This just sucks.  No more 3rd strike.  It is just stupid that we get half-ass emulations, now we don't even get the option of playing online.  
Couple this with the fact that a bunch of EA games don't even work online anymore, I just don't understand what is going on, or why we as users are allowing all of this to happen.  Doesn't seem acceptable to me that a game is unplayable because a publisher says so, and not because the player base says so due to lack of demand. 

I've never played an XBox 1 game in my life.

What's really sad about this is that I've had my 360 for 3+ years and never had a friend on my friends list..

Huh. I'm sure there's gotta be a hearty handful of Halo 2 players that are going to be disappointed. Can't think of anything else getting any play time. 
 
Truth be told, I had assumed OXbox games already lost Live support; especially given the spotty backwards compatibility.

I played Psychonauts a couple of years ago, but that was the Steam version. Does that count?

It's about time hopefully they update XBLA to support more then 100 people friends list......

As a huge Burnout 3 fanatic, Im extremely saddened and disappointed in Microsoft for making this decision. 
 
Games like Halo 2, Burnout 3, Splinter Cell Chaos Theory and Crimson Skies are what MADE xbox live so successful, and now they want to kill them off for the sake of a larger friends list? 
 
There has to be a better solution. I for one, will fight this decision with every single ounce of my being - I might even cancel my XBL subscription entirely if they really do this.

I find it weird to know that a single game has single handedly stopped Microsoft from expanding the friends list beyond 100...
 
But to be perfectly honest you never really play with all of those people. I find myself removing more people than adding nowadays once I get my regular gaming group together. Still, there's a demand for it so Microsoft will probably look into that. Not like its all that hard to expand the friendslist.

According to Bungie's stat tracking, only about 3000 people have been playing Halo 2 online, and that's by far the most popular original Xbox Live title.
 
We know that the support for old Xbox titles has been holding back progression the current system in certain areas, particularly with the amount of friends you can have/clan support.  So if axing these old games makes way for improvements in new ones, I'm all for it.  How long before we see a Halo 1/2 HD double pack anyway?

" Are there really still original Xbox games that you can find Xbox Live matches for?? "

I think I've played Gladius once since I got my 360, but it doesn't support Monopoly Party, so why bother?  If this helps them go on to bigger and better things (for no additional cost) I'm all for it.

You know what's weird? I was just thinking about breaking out my copy of Halo 2 for some matches.

There are a few games I'd like to go back and visit, but none I'd play online.

Nah, the only one I've played was Dreamfall and that doesn't require Live to play. They can shut it down for all I care.
 
Also, Halo 2 sucks. Just kidding of course.

Oh man, I need to get some final Crimson Skies and Battlefront games in.  Those were my favorite Live titles! 
 
I'm sad, but it's for the best.  Time to move on and upgrade Live to it's full potential.

When I still had my gold Subscription, which I stopped since I didnt feel it was enough value when I didnt play as much as i once did, I played a lot of Halo 2 through my 360. Looking at my origina Xbox games the ones ill be sad of the loss about is Halo 2 and Unreal Championship 2.

:'( This explains why Halo 2 never came to Xbox Originals....

who cares?

Halo 2 people will be upset, everyone else will not care. You can play third strike on GGPO, which is what people have been doing anyway.

Let it rest in peace.

Got my 360 a couple months after launch, put halo 2 backwards compatible once, haven't touched it since.

While I'm sad to see it go I'm also surprised they're still supporting the online for those games. I too don't think I've touched an original Xbox game at least on Xbox Live since 2006.

I can understand not continueing Live for old boxed games but for old Xbox games on Xbox Originals? That seems a little sketchy because that stuff's still being sold. Someone could buy an Xbox Original today and find out he couldn't play it online even though he bought it because he remembers how cool the online was, ect.

What year was it the xbox came out? cause that's when I stopped playing mine. :P

Aw man, how about a unreal championship 3? I really liked 2 and now I can't play it online anymore....

" brb oh no! no xbox live? how will i meet 13 year old racists who insult my mother? "

I don't care one way or another about this. The only original Xbox game I have is Dreamfall, and it's single player. And I haven't played it since the summer after the 360 came out, when the number of games coming out was still a bit anemic. They could completely drop backwards compatibility and I wouldn't much care, though I know others would.
 
Count me among those who thought they phased out online play for the original Xbox a long time ago. I actually thought they did this when they released the new Xbox experience. In any case, when you play a game online and it's attached to a service, you have to know that someday it will all come to an end. The 360 has been out for four years now. I'm not surprised they're ending it. As for new Xbox 360 features ... meh. More friends on the list? I only have two anyway. I don't much care about it.

I haven't since the launch of the 360 in 05.

This kind of sucks.  I understand why they are doing it, but it sucks to have old games lose features.   
 
Crimson Skies, Mech Assault,  and Wolfenstien are all still great games.  Though I admit its been quite some time since I played any of them.  Guess its time to dig them out and fire them up.

This sucks almost exclusively because it means the permanent death of Phantom Dust online. Damn.

Curse you Microsoft. You don't have to drop support to get new things!
 
It's because of you I can't play X-Wing Alliance or Flight Simulator 2002 online anymore. Now they are shutting down Xboxes as well!

A sad day...
Would've been cool if they made it free instead, but I guess it costs money to keep supporting it at all.

And this is the way it goes from here on out.
Every game announced with online multiplayer, will inevitably have another announcement saying you can't play that anymore.  Software has a lifespan, regardless if you own a disc or a download.  It's been happening for a long time, but now it's happening to Halo.  So it's real. ;)

This does not disappoint me. I've been upset since the supposedly compatible european version of Panzer Dragoon Orta from the original Xbox crashes after the third level on the 360.

I was playing Halo 2 last night...

Well this was going to happen eventually, though I really wish there was some sort of work around so that backwards compatible games running on 360 could still be played.

I didn't even know it was still going and I didn't even know I could play Xbox original games online on my 360

well, this sucks.

just got farenheit from xbox originals to get prepared for Heavy Rain, the game hasn't dated so well

Too bad for Halo 2 players.
 
They could always migrate to *snicker* Halo 2 for Windows Vista.

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