Dedicated Halo 2 Fans Keep Multiplayer Alive 239
On April 15th, Microsoft terminated Xbox Live support for the original Xbox console, marking the end of online multiplayer for many older games. However, a group of Halo 2 players have refused to give up online play by leaving their consoles on and connected since then. Overheating consoles and dropped connections have taken their toll, but at present, 13 players are still going strong.
Isn't this what the fanboys said was impossible? (Score:5, Interesting)
I seem to recall that in pretty much every discussion about "rented" software, software that doesn't work without the developer's servers or online authentication there have been cadres of fanboys who have claimed that obviously the developers (including MS) would nevar!!1 just shut down their servers without first "opening" the game so that full functionality can be retained.
So how's that trust in corporations working out for you?
Re:MS should... (Score:4, Interesting)
I don't remember that, actually.
Was on there as well (Score:3, Interesting)
I was on Halo 2 aswell until a couple of days ago. Actually got recorded in the last ranked game of Halo 2.
It's kind of neat how fast the community got friendly with each other. I actually saw teabagging completely stop once it dropped down to about 30-40 people left.