Xbox Live To Drop Original Xbox Support This April

To reach our aspiration, we need to make changes to the service that are incompatible with our original Xbox v1 games. We will contact the Xbox LIVE members directly impacted by this change and if this includes you, I encourage you to check your LIVE messages and associated e-mail account over the coming weeks for more details and opportunities. We view you as a partner in this process.

Let's get some rounds of MechAssault in oh god

Presumably there should be little uproar about this at it is a sensible move....this is the internet however so lets see how it pans out.

Kind of surprised this didn't already happen, to be honest. I guess I had just figured it was something that had taken place without much fanfare or anything. Ah well. That being said, I'm curious if the LAN tunneling services for Xbox games that support LAN-based multiplayer is still up and running. If so, I imagine that would probably work okay as a substitute for those still wanting to get together online for some Halo 2 online or something.

I still have a bunch of Xbox Original games but they are almost all better single-player experiences. The only exception may be crimson skies, but dude, it's been years since I have payed that game.

I haven't been able to play some of my favorite original xbox games online since I signed in for the first time on my 360 and it arbitrarily prevented me from going online on my old xbox.  Combine that with the crappy backwards compatibility with the 360 (less than half of my original xbox games are supported), and you have the sad fact that the original xbox live have essentially been discontinued for many people for years.

If people are going to start having over 100 friends, they REALLY need to give us more control over Notifications. I am interested in messages and achievements, but I absolutely could not care less about someone signing on unless we are going to be playing together (which is what a message is for).

That sucks, stilled played a few originals on my 360 >_<

Oh boo...
 
It makes sense though. 
 
I just replayed Halo a few months back.

I don't ever play Halo 2 online anymore, but it was nice knowing in the back of my mind that I could at anytime. oh well.

I played Psychonauts as a backwards compatible game...  but I will not miss any online play, or support...  This is great news!  I'm tired of having to filter through my friends list to figure out who stays and who goes...  Everyone should be able to stay!!!

That is exciting. Not that I really have the problem of not having enough room for all my friends...
However it is sad to hear that they are killing the support for games, no matter how old they may be. There is that part of me that wants to yell "Get with the program and just play Halo 3!" and I suppose that is a fairly rational thought. I guess its just sad to see them shut down a game that I spent so much time playing. Ahhh, Memories...

The only online I'll miss is Halo 2. But there's always LAN.

I when I first read the title of this, I misread it and somehow construed that the 360's backwards compatibility was being dropped. Then I read the article, and breathed a sigh of relief. I still have the first Fable and more of Morrowind to play!

I guess I better play some Hyper Street Fighter 2 and 3rd Strike online before it dies.

well those Halo 2 players are gonna be real upset. Though the only original Xbox game I would play is KOTOR and i can get that off Steam now.
Btw : do any of you have 100 Xbox Live friends?

I don't get why they have to shut down a P2P network... I mean, I'm sure there are real reasons and stuff, but as an angry consumer at home, I don't care about the reasons things don't work goldarnit! But yeah... I haven't played any original Xbox game online in a real long time. Still, I pay $50 a month and if I want to play a round of Chaos Theory years after the game came out, I should be able to!

I have 100 Xbox Live friends, so killing off Halo 2 so that I may have more is worthwhile.

I'm kinda disappointed that I never got to play Crimson Skies or Phantom Dust online, but that's surprisingly pretty much all that I can think of that bothers me about this... 
 
I'm sure sooner or later I'll remember some other game that I never got to play online, or wished I went back to before the servers were shutdown and get pissed off. 
 
Oh well, I guess that's what XBConnect (or whatever the hell it's called) is for if anyone still uses that.

Haven't played that console for nearly four years but this announcement makes me feel old!

This sucks no more 3rd strike online!

Dude, the loss of the ability to play Halo 2 online is heartbreaking. Though, I tried playing it through my 360 before, and the matchmaking was unbelievably slow. Seriously, I waited like 20 minutes and never got into a match, so I just played a custom game with my friend. Man, this is a bummer, though. A lot of people will be upset over Halo 2. I wonder if there's a way they could bring it back and have it adjusted to fit the new Xbox Live needs. Heck, I'd pay $15 for the ability to keep playing Halo 2 online. I'm sure many others would agree.

" I still have a bunch of Xbox Original games but they are almost all better single-player experiences. The only exception may be crimson skies, but dude, it's been years since I have payed that game. "

This sounds a lot worse than it actually is.

I wonder if anyone still plays Unreal Championship 2 online, that game was pretty sick. 

I play original Xbox games all the time, relatively speaking...  because that's all I have by the way of Xbox games :)
 
I didn't even know they still supported it, though.  Never been online with the thing.

One last round of Crimson Skies anyone?

So much for Steel Battalion: Line of Contact. 
The original wasn't online only too, was it?  'Cause that'd be quite an investment that just became completely worthless.

I haven't played any original Xbox games on live since end of service... but have within the last 2 years whipped out Indigo Prophecy and Psychonauts. 
 
Fuck - no more Midtown Madness 3! :(

Also, let's start a list of worthwhile games on Xbox 1 that have never been updated, I'll throw in Phantom Dust. "

I'll miss Halo 2. It's on PC but there's only that one snipers server with people playing. I have never understood the nee3d to remove maps from FPS sequels. Ascension and Ivory Tower are better than any map available in Halo 3.

" I have 100 Xbox Live friends, so killing off Halo 2 so that I may have more is worthwhile. "

" I when I first read the title of this, I misread it and somehow construed that the 360's backwards compatibility was being dropped. Then I read the article, and breathed a sigh of relief. I still have the first Fable and more of Morrowind to play! "

It was going to happen sooner or later.

"I guess I better play some Hyper Street Fighter 2 and 3rd Strike online before it dies. "

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