Xbox 1 Live Users, Your Days Are Numbered
Posted by Josh Harrison , Feb, 2010 @ 1:37 pm
As new games are released and new technology develops in response, we’re often forced to bid farewell to our favorites from the last generation. This is the case, I fear, with the original Xbox Live classics, such as Counter-Strike and the Star Wars: Battlefront series. Citing incompatibility with newer Live features, Microsoft has announced that it will shut down Live service for all original Xbox games on April 15th:
Microsoft is pulling the plug on the Xbox Live services that still cater to the original Xbox. As of April 15th, all Xbox 1 games — including those playable on Xbox 360 or via the Xbox Originals service — will be severed from the online realm. “I want to start by saying this isn’t a decision we made lightly,” Xbox Live general manager Marc Whitten said at the start of a letter to Xbox Live members, “but after careful consideration, it is clear that this will provide the greatest benefit to the Xbox Live community.”
Whitten added that in continuing to “evolve the service,” Microsoft requires changes that are “incompatible” with the previous console’s games. “We will contact the Xbox LIVE members directly impacted by this change and if this includes you, I encourage you to check your LIVE messages and associated e-mail account over the coming weeks for more details and opportunities.”
According to Major Nelson’s most recent list of top Xbox 1 Live titles, Star Wars: Battlefront 2 and Counter-Strike players will be hardest hit. Well, sure, Halo 2 is still the most widely played game, but at least those guys will have some consolation when they leave the house and discover that two threeHalo games have come out since 2004.
So before you file your taxes, get in a few games of Halo 2 for old times’ sake. Are you gonna miss the old-school Xbox Live? What kind of crazy new features do you think motivate this decision?
[Via Joystiq]
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Tags: game announcements, Halo, Microsoft, multiplayer games, Xbox, Xbox Live
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