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Old 05-02-2010, 10:29 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Default Dedicated Halo 2 players refuse to leave Xbox Live - 18 days after it was shut down

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A small group of hard-core Halo 2 players is still unwilling to let go of its beloved game.

On April 15, Microsoft turned off access to its popular Xbox Live service to anyone using an original Xbox. But for this small group of Halo 2 devotees--said by IGN to be 12 people--losing the ability to play the game online isn't an option.

That's why each member of the group has kept his or her Xbox continually logged into Xbox Live and Halo 2 (as my colleague Don Reisinger wrote about earlier this week.) According to IGN, "The group has shrunk noticeably since [April 15], with several players experiencing console freezes and disconnections. It's been determined if any one of them are signed off of Live for any reason they can no longer reconnect."

But Microsoft is also applauding the players' efforts to stay logged into Live. On Friday, Stephen Toulouse, director of policy and enforcement for Xbox Live, tweeted his encouragement: "To those noble folk keeping halo2 alive: we see you, and we salute you."

As a result, IGN reported, each of the 12 will be given codes for access to the beta of the forthcoming Halo: Reach, the latest iteration of the mega-hit franchise.

"We will keep playing until we are all forcibly removed," Halo 2 player Joe Campbell wrote. "It could be by Microsoft, Bungie, our Xbox's overheating or just lagging out. Not for competition, not for a prize, but for the love and memory of Halo 2."
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-20...CmoreStories.0

Nice story. If they were attempting this feat with an Xbox 360 then it probably would have RRODed by now.

Hurr, I'm kidding.
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Old 05-02-2010, 10:31 PM   #2 (permalink)
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I imagine their parents will ground them sooner or later for using all the electricity.
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Old 05-02-2010, 10:41 PM   #3 (permalink)
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It's not even that good of a game.
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Old 05-02-2010, 10:57 PM   #4 (permalink)
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OMG I have a friend named Joe Campbell! Lol! I wonder if its him!
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Old 05-02-2010, 11:12 PM   #5 (permalink)
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It's not even that good of a game.
If this was in the lounge I'd insert a picture of a disapproving emoticon.

Since it isn't, I'm just going to have to disagree with you massively on that point.
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I was never a big fan of it...but my cousin loved it loveddddddddd it. He only played Halo 2 and L4D on live, ever.

He was real sad they canceled it.
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Old 05-02-2010, 11:23 PM   #7 (permalink)
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Yes another reason I lessthanthree PC gaming.


Also, how exactly do they stay on Xbox Live if the servers have been shut down?
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Yes another reason I lessthanthree PC gaming.


Also, how exactly do they stay on Xbox Live if the servers have been shut down?
Taiko is also confused about this. o.O
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It's not even that good of a game.
Was better than Halo 3, I'll tell you that.
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Also, how exactly do they stay on Xbox Live if the servers have been shut down?
This. I is baffled.
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