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Microsoft is preparing to cut the cord on its support for Halo Wars. The Halo Wars official website is being taken offline this December 15, and the game's stat-tracking will go down alongside it, a Halo Wars spokesperson confirmed on the game's message board. A fifth, and presumably last, title update for the RTS will seal the deal, as it strips leaderboard functionality from the game (and fixes a theatre bug, too).
The few people who still want to talk Halo Wars, however, will be given an option to do so elsewhere in an "official" environment. On the cut-off date, Microsoft will be "transitioning" the Halo Wars forums to Halo Waypoint's forums, which are "a lot less chaotic" than the Halo Wars boards. No posts or previous threads will make it to the new home.
Sour fans and community members will earn a bauble for their sign-up troubles if they choose to follow the conversation to the Halo Waypoint boards, the post reads. A special HaloWars.com forum avatar for use on Halo Waypoint will be offered to those who PM their new user names to this guy.
Just to be perfectly clear, Halo Wars multiplayer will continue to stay online and playable. This title update only removes the game's stat-tracking. You'll be able to continue to play the game online for, you know, funsies before and after this all goes down in December.
Halo Wars debuted on February 26, 2009. It was the last game created by Ensemble Studios, the original creators of Age of Empires.
