Xbox Live To Drop Original Xbox Support This April

Oh well, no more Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory multiplayer. Seriously, the only reason I still occasionally played it was because it was the only time Ubisoft did Splinter Cell multiplayer right. Double Agent destroyed Spies vs. Mercs, and it looks like Conviction could care less about multiplayer that doesn't let them flaunt their fancy new game mechanics.

Do many people still play these titles such as Halo 2 anyways? Not really a huge blow for me gaming wise anyways.

It sounds ridiculous & utterly stupid. They have to eliminate network gaming in order to increase friends lists??  That doesn't even make sense!   One deals with networking & passing data back & forth to multiplayer servers, the other is stored values of a list on a hard drive or network.  Where is the connection?  Sounds like BS to me.
 
They should have moved this idea of more friends off to the Xbox 720 instead of eliminating features.  One day someone might want to return & experience a classic multiplayer & it'll be impossible to do. Except through PCs. It's just further justifcation of why you need a gaming PC around, along with PC-equivalent games of former Xbox games.
 
If Mr. Softy decides to screw me out of my 360 games in the next iteration, I'll probably abandon consoles & go back to exclusive PC gaming.  I want my games to have permanence, not a set time-limit decided by the manufacturer.  Sure I'm splitting hairs, but I find these kinds of changes annoying. 

I played NFL 2k5 once online when that became backwards compatible.  That's about it.

No more Halo 2 online?! OH NO! At least now they can finally raise the friend list cap past 100.

FUCK, I really do still play Jedi Academy.

I'm still waiting for them to patch Crazy Taxi 3 to play on the Xbox 360!!!  I played CT 1 & 2 on the dreamcast and was hoping to play CT3 on my Xbox 360 but it doesn't work.  Microsoft help me out get this one game to work and I'm good!!!!    

No one needs more than 100 friends. Fuck this.

06 or 07.  Still, losing an option always sucks.  Having that copy of Phantom Dust become worthless isn't fun even if you never play it.  Now you can't.
This is my biggest problem with the cloud stuff like Onlive.  I buy the game until you don't want to host it anymore? Great.

" Let's get some rounds of MechAssault in oh god "

People still play Xbox games online?

I pop in Conker once in a while. But that's about it.

I don't have a huge problem with this since I never play original xbox games online but it's still a bummer that it's going to be dropped. 

Oh man!!! I still play Conker's Live and Reloaded every so often on my 360 through Live. This is so lame!

I was going to say, "Oh well" and just ignore this, but then I remembered that Street Fighter III Third Strike,  Capcom Vs Snk 2, and Guilty Gear XX are online playable over this service....now I'm sad.

Man, no more halo 2

The only game I can even remotely consider feeling bummed about losing is (of course) Halo 2, but I think Halo 3 is way better anyways. OH WAIT!! No more Burnout 3: Takedown!! NOOOOOO!!!!!!!!
 
But in all honesty, I don't really see this as a huge deal. We all knew this would happen eventually.

" It sounds ridiculous & utterly stupid. They have to eliminate network gaming in order to increase friends lists??  That doesn't even make sense!   One deals with networking & passing data back & forth to multiplayer servers, the other is stored values of a list on a hard drive or network.  Where is the connection?  Sounds like BS to me."

/care

Kinda sucks, because I planned on getting Morrowind sometime in the future.

I play halo 2 alot, it's sad that it has to go.

Honestly if the old architecture of the original Xbox live is holding back an improved Xbox live I have no problem with that. I'd like to see some changes to Xbox live if that means sacrificing a small community of gamers. For now I'll give Microsoft the benefit of the doubt, but I bet that there has to be a reason for this.

" For now I'll give Microsoft the benefit of the doubt, but I bet that there has to be a reason for this. "

Hmm I bought Breakdown, Rallisport Challenge 2 (for online play) and Shenmue 2 since the 360 launched. Got Shenmue like 2 weeks ago. The other two games one ore two years ago...

DUDE! I was just at gamestop the other day thinking about buying Halo 2. good thing I didnt 

Well if it leads to a better 360 experience than I'm all for it. It still wont effect my Single player games like Shenmue II and Jet Set Radio Future. When I think of xbox classics it makes me wonder why there is no new Crimson Skies. That game was so great and its something the 360 could use...

I'm not surprised that they're doing this since the new service is much better.
 
I'm upset that Halo 2 is going away forever. It was the best game out of the Halo series by far and that includes being the best online one too.

This is the problem of having part of or all of our games being handle by the publisher. 
In the future, we can no longer break out our games from 20 years ago like what we are doing now and still enjoy 100% of it.  All the multiplayer we enjoy so much online (Modern Warfare, Left4Dead etc) will be gone someday and we can no longer experience it anytime we want.

That sucks, my cousin wanted to go back to Halo 2 soon too.

Thanks for reminding me that I still have a copy of Tao Feng: Fist of the Regretful Purchase

Return to Castle Wolfenstein...that game pretty much convinced me that I need to shell out $50 for XBL. I think PGR2, and RTCW were the only two games that I played more online than the single player; dont think I even got past the second level on RTCW.

Good, who wants tobe trapped in the past.

As a huge Halo fan I'll be unhappy to know that the Halo 2 online multiplayer will be gone forever. I much prefer the Halo 3 multiplayer but Halo 2 still offers different maps and custom matches and overall brings back different memories for me.

For some reason I decided to play some Forza 1 a few months back on my original Xbox. And I think the last Xbox game I played on my 360 was JSRF... lol.

" Kinda sucks, because I planned on getting Morrowind sometime in the future. "

While i don't like the fact they are shutting down service (mainly because of steel battalion) it's understandable if the number  of current users playing are that low. I just figured since it is all the same service that even with the low numbers that since they are still maintaining for the 18 million people (or however many people it is) on  the 360 that it was just something that wasn't going to go away.   

   What i'm worried about is the future in  like 5-10 years with the xbox 360. I'm assuming that this might make any orginal xbox live arcade games unplayable.

 
I'd really like to have more details as to why they are doing this.

So I guess I'll never get around to the Ninja Gaiden Hurricane packs after all. I always wanted to exploit my way through such a hard game with the counter they decided unbalanced it. Farewell sweet Prince.

Considering they are dropping online features for the original, could they also be removing all online connectivity to Xbox 1? 
 
I ask as that could mean when you put an Xbox 1 game into a 360, it will not retreive online infomation to download the relevant emulator.  If so, that will end all backwards compatability for new 360's.

Let's hope Microsoft continue to offer the option to download the emulator when you put in an Xbox 1 disc...

Thank you jeff for reassuring me about hearing that Halo 2 online support was the only reason that the XBL friends list stays at 100...I thought i may have gone crazy.... 
 
I hope this is the case and the friends list will be increased