Xbox Live To Drop Original Xbox Support This April

man i feel for the people still playing halo 2 

That sucks. I still hop onto Halo 2 for the memories every once a while. I don't understand the reasoning behind their decision.

OHHH SNAP

Ahh.. epic... why did you not port Unreal Championship 2 to pc...

The only original xbox game I have played recently was Burnout 2, because it's the greatest game ever made, fortunately it doesn't have any online functionality anyway so I'm totally indifferent to this.

Noooooooooo. I do not like this. :(

They should have never married the original Xbox Live service to the 360.  But NOOOO... all you lazy bastards cried and cried about having your friends lists carried over so they got tied together forever.  As a result the old xbox is being burned off the service.
 
Gotta get my game updates installed while I still can.  It could take awhile to cycle through all my old games and connect all of them.

It's really lame that you can't even play xbox games online on the 360 but I suppose if the friends list grows it isn't all bad. 
 
Still a bit of a bummer. I don't actively play online xbox games anymore but if I ever wanted to I can't. This only means they HAVE to make a new Unreal Championship for 360. (the liandri conflict)

I guess if you've GOT to play Halo 2, there's always the PC version out there.

Not a big deal to me as the only game I think is worth playing on Xbox1 was San Andreas. And since that's an offline title, whatevs.

I've been known to pop in my copy of Crimson Skies from time to time. I'll be sad to see that one go.

If this is any indication, the 360 won't see much support after their next console. The original Xbox has pretty much been treated as an rejected child ever since the 360 launched.

Now I can finally mod my original Xbox without fear of not being able to play Blinx 2: Masters of Time and Space online.

" I guess if you've GOT to play Halo 2, there's always the PC version out there. "

" @TooWalrus said:

" I guess if you've GOT to play Halo 2, there's always the PC version out there. "

Both Halo ports on the PC were awful. Halo 2 specifically required Windows Vista which is why no one bought it back in the day. But if you are running Vista or Win7 these days, it's a valid option, I guess. "

I am surprised that they didn't do this sooner really.

Yea haven't played a original Xbox game in forever.

To be honest I don't give a toss about online support, I just want to know why they ever stopped making Original xbox games compatible (Timesplitters 2? Freedom Fighters PAL version dosen't work yet the NTSC version works fine?)

 The last original Xbox game I played was Ninja Gaiden which is one of the few games that I own for the Xbox that is actually compatible which is really lame because I would like to play those games and can't due to my Xbox dying, none of those games had online either so I'm at no loss on this.... I have been screwed since I first turned on my 360 for classic games.

I think I only have like 20 friends. But that's because I only add people I know in real life.

oh i was gonna order the street fighter anniversary edition today, guess theres no point now.

2007 or 2008 since i played a original

I would bet money that they will release an Halo Collection disc that has Halo 1 & 2 upscaled to 1080p & compatible with the new live within the next year.

i will miss playing battlefront 2 :(

fine with me as long as it means xbl gets better for it.  the only original xbox i have ever went back and played in the last 2 years are all single player games like KOTOR 2 and psychonauts.

does this mean i wont be able to play the old games at all, or just that i can no longer play them online?

That is a huge bummer.  I always liked knowing that if I wanted to go back and play halo 2 online I always could.  Its kinda sad knowing that soon I will not be able to

So I can't play Halo 2 online anymore?

Wow, Microsoft is too lazy to patch backwards compatibility in Xbox Live, so they're removing backwards compatibility with Live service completely? God, is gaming on a downward spiral.

I haven't touched an Xbox game since 2003, and that was playing the first Halo. This change sucks for those playing old games, but as for me, the one message I can say to those still coddling themselves; afraid of the current generation of gaming: stop living in the past! Move on. There are greener pastures up ahead! Besides, the original Xbox didn't really have any games that were ground breaking to begin with. Halo? No, that was your typical shooter. Like I said, there are greener pastures ahead, meaning, there are far better games out there right now than there ever was back then.

I don't accept friend requests from people I don't actually know since I hardly play online and my IRL friends are few that have a 360, so I don't really have any personal interest in seeing the 100 friends limit increased, though I do understand why some hold it as a major issue.
 
For a split second I think about the fact that I'll never be able to connect my Xbox up for Jade Empire or Star Wars KOTOR to get the downloadable stuff, but then I realize I will never probably do this anyway.  My original XBox is gathering dust in the closet somewhere.

I hated the xbox then, now I only dislike it because of the ugliness. Also, I didn't own one, and now I own a 360. So.. no I'm not playing old xbox games XD

I don't have a problem with this, since I never played any Xbox games online, not even Halo 2, which I just got for the co-op. 
 
Speaking of which, I go back and play the original Halo: Combat Evolved at least once a year, usually with my brother. Sometimes I go on to Halo 2 as well if I'm feeling crazy.

I assume that the demographic for online Xbox games is extremely small.

That sucks. Sure I don't play original Xbox games online anymore, but I like knowing that if I wanted to I could. Now some of these game's online will be lost forever.
 
I'm more disappointed that they dropped support on updating the number of Xbox games compatible though. Would've liked to see Stranger's Wrath on there. I hope for the next Xbox they have some system of backwards compatibility, because every now and then, I do like to go back and play my older games.
 
If anything, hopefully they'll at least continue a games on demand thing in the future or start doing God of 
War collection-type releases. I would love to go back to Jade Empire at some point. Or JSRF. Or Shenmue II.

I don't play any games online, so this isn't a problem for me. I did just play through Red Dead Revolver in preparation for Redemption, but other than that I never use the backwards compatibility. Now, if it supported Stranger's Wrath, that'd be another story.

So this just means that Halo and Halo 2 can't be played across the world anymore. Poor Halo fanboys.

PS2 online support is still working for what i know.

" PS2 online support is still working for what i know. "

" does this mean i wont be able to play the old games at all, or just that i can no longer play them online? "

Do people really need more than 100 friends? I don't know..I only have personal friends on there and a few people I met from playing. However after a month if I don't talk to or play with the kid, I just delete the gamertag as it's a waste of space. I have a hard time believing people need to have over 100 friends, because I doubt people even talk to or play with half the people on their friends list as it is.

Sounds like Bungie is doing a Halo 2 blowout bash.  It would be cool to get 100k+ people playing for one last time. 

I think everyone can live without their xbox originals, it's time to move on

I still play some original xbox games,  but I haven't played any multiplayer since 06.