Halo 2 Vista.. Servers shutting down..

sorry if my english is bad.. btw

Don't like Halo, so - GOOD NEWS!

Well I don't have the game so it doesn't affect me but overall I don't like the idea of game servers shutting down, I can imagine it happening to some of the older cods within the next few years, and I bought dlc for all of those...that's why I stopped buying cod dlc since mw3

Guys at codehpro must be pissed.

They'd probably have players if they sold the dang game digitally

wait Halo 2 was ported to the PC?

but this game has an excellent multiplayer.. it died so fast.. :(

ah, I remeber Live service idea on PC.... with Haolo 2... so dead

Those were the days.

It was like February 2011 or something. They already stopped working long time ago.

That kinda sucks but I do agree that it's a waste of money if they run the servers and not many people play on them

This is just poor planning, or perhaps planned obsolescence. Any good multiplayer game has a localhost option so that you can play long after all the servers are gone.

The heartache I felt when Halo 2 on Xbox shut down was horrendous.

Sad news :( I have played the multi on Windows live aswell like 6-7 months ago for last time there were like only 10-15 servers and about 100-200 players online all the time so it was just about time :/

So the failed experiment actually took this long to die off? I'm actually kind of surprised. I myself have no particular personal feelings on the shutdown since I never played Halo 2 MP (got it cracked like many others) and wasn't impressed by Halo 2's SP, which really felt like a rushed, confused clusterfuck. Still, I liked the original and had hoped that Halo 2's failure (though justified*) wouldn't prevent the other games from reaching our platform. Alas, it's obvious that that's never going to happen now. What a shame.

*Arbitrary OS requirement that was easily broken, terrible and buggy performance for an already old game, the whole GFWL system bollocks... Yeah. Halo 2 Vista was simply an unacceptably bad port. Especially compared to the fantastic Gearbox port of the original.

Isn't it honestly about time, though?

Halo 2 was dead the moment they crammed GWfL in and made it Vista-only

Hurray!

That's the problem with multiplayer games...

NOOOOOOOOOOO! I WAS GONNA REINSTALL IT TOMORROW TOO! D:

Dammit!

Maybe they should make a patch that allows dedicated servers for this game.

Are HALO 1 servers still up? That game was the bees knees.

Yeah, ultra sucks.. I played around 1200-1300 matches of Halo 2 for Xbox... next to Quake 1, it's my favorite multiplayer experience in my life thus far... The fun of getting a team of friends together and playing H2 MP was really the best MP ever... so insanely fun, and spent so many hours playing it. The fact that MS canceled original XBL meanwhile RAISING the price of XBL Gold is something I'll never get over. I haven't paid for XBL since, and don't plan to ever again. Now that Bungie will be going onto something new, I won't have to tolerate MS' bullcrap treatment of its customers and gamers in general anymore. The fact that H2 was Vista-only and requires GFWL is just another testament to how MS fucks with all of us and interlaces all of their products with restrictive consumer-unfriendly practices.

i bought halo 2 for pc and it kinda sucks. i bought it for $18 and free shipping.