Halo 2 Online Preservation Effort Ends

A couple weeks ago, we discussed news that some dedicated Halo 2 fans were keeping the game's multiplayer alive after support for online play was dropped. Now, a few days shy of a month after support ended, the last users have been knocked off the server. "[A user named] Apache N4SIR outlasted everyone. 'May 11th @ 0158hrs I was FORCEFULLY REMOVED!!' he wrote on the forums at Bungie.net. 'I thought I'd be the one turning off the lights but that was done for me. Good night everyone, my Elite needs a rest.' His last comrade in arms, Agent Windex, was still signed on, as spotted by Kotaku at 4 p.m. US Pacific Time on May 10, but their adventure, which began on April 15, ended after Windex announced 21 minutes later that he had been removed from play and Apache N4SIR suffered a similar fate hours later, as he described in his post."

and...

[Anonymous Coward]

And nothing of value was lost.

Re:and...

[BadAnalogyGuy]

Maybe for you. But luckily you aren't the arbitrator of value for everyone.

Fuck you Microsoft. I can't believe (wait, yes I can) that you would continue to screw over your loyal customers.

I've had it. I'm switching all my machines to Linux today.

See ya'll in 24 hours.

Re:and...

[billsayswow]

Oh, I know you from somewhere... You were the guy who said he'd move to Canada after every election that didn't go your way. You're the guy who said you were switching to satellite after your cable provider raised the prices again. You were going to switch to Verizon after AT&T charged you a lousy service fee, take the City to court after they didn't plow your street well, never use UPS again because your package was damaged, never eat at McDonalds again since your burger had pickles on it, never go into a Walmart because you couldn't return your opened copy of Madden '96, switch to ATI because you got a DOA NVidia card, and always buy Durex because you had a trojan rip on you once, and now you have a kid that you're inflicting your empty-threated wisdom upon. Nice to see you again. Though you said you'd never speak to me for as long as you'd live.

What I really expected to read

[masterwit]

What I really expected was:

"Halo 2 preservation ends", six die in a fire believed to be caused by their game consoles.

Re:and...

[Provocateur]

I don't see an issue with MS retiring

Well, they could have had the decency to post a warning in-game:

This will be your Last Game. No respawn, no requests for
immediate evac, just shoot to kill, and the last medikits
(whatever they're called) are up for grabs. So long, and
Microsoft would like to honor your loyalty by engraving your
frags on a monument that sadly no one will see. Don't worry, it
will be an easter egg in our next edition of Excel: The
Spreadsheet. When that gets ported to Xbox, that is.