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Halo Xbox 360 Servers Shutdown Imminent
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I remember getting Halo 3 at midnight on launch day, going home, firing it up and watching the online players number on the main menu go from a few thousand to over a hundred thousand by 3 or 4am. Such a great gaming memory!
They seem to imply that these Halo games still necessitated some type of maintenance that does seem kind of redundant when they have the nearly exact experience in MCC. There's still a lot of Xbox 360 online games up - for example, all the Rare games have mostly functioning online service.
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Halo 3 was the hypest launch of all time, hands down.
That's good to hear! Funnily enough I bought a 360 yesterday in a moment of nostalgia and it hasn't been shipped yet. Then I learned about this and I was like...god damn it! 😂
All the H3 games I'm getting are people trolling and messing around. Nobody seems interested in actually playing (I guess they're all just voice chatting? I don't do that crap anymore). None of the playlists have players other than Lone Wolves and Team Slayer. It's such a bad feeling compared to the Halo 2 shutdown.
Sad I never got the achievements for the DLC maps when I had the chance. I always wanted to 100% it just due to 3 being one of my favorite games ever.
Oh well, onward to MCC.
Sad I never got the achievements for the DLC maps when I had the chance. I always wanted to 100% it just due to 3 being one of my favorite games ever.
Oh well, onward to MCC.
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I think it's finally over.
I'm getting the message that the Halo reach server is unavailable.
I had more fun with this one game than any other gaming purchase. Thanks Bungie/343
I'm getting the message that the Halo reach server is unavailable.
I had more fun with this one game than any other gaming purchase. Thanks Bungie/343
I was on Reach at the time of posting. Played a few hours of 3, then Reach with no problems. Trying Halo 4 now and that seems to be up as well upon first glance.
I've gotten a couple more Reach games in since. It's definitely dropping pretty frequently though.
Whew, for a second I thought this included MCC. Glad to know it's just the og Halo 3.
Thanks for all the good times! Safe journeys ol friend.
Thanks for all the good times! Safe journeys ol friend.
RIP to all those Xbox 360 Halo games.
Took pictures of 4 of my Halo 3 accounts, so here you go:
Lost access to an other 4 accounts, because I didn't bother writing down their Emails or their passwords back then. I still know the Gamertags of 2 of those, but the other 2 were wiped when I sent my Xbox 360 in for RROD issues and are forever lost to posterity.
Took pictures of 4 of my Halo 3 accounts, so here you go:
Lost access to an other 4 accounts, because I didn't bother writing down their Emails or their passwords back then. I still know the Gamertags of 2 of those, but the other 2 were wiped when I sent my Xbox 360 in for RROD issues and are forever lost to posterity.
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Oh I hadn't noticed that! Wait...that's cool, so Xbox 360 communities can still organize game nights and put together Custom Games, just no more matchmaking, file-sharing, etc.? That's actually not so bad.
I managed to get one last Halo 3 match in - myself and a bunch of randos. Everyone was just chilling around Foundry helping eachother get achievements. Really special.
When I queued up for the playlist, 117 players were there with me. So many memories were spent in this game, and its' sad to see its era end. But that doesn't erase all that time spent :)
When I queued up for the playlist, 117 players were there with me. So many memories were spent in this game, and its' sad to see its era end. But that doesn't erase all that time spent :)
As the image says.
Yeah, it's so bad that we are so used to things whole sale shutting down.
Indeed. Basically the thing that shut down was Bungie's servers, not anything to do with Xbox Live. As the core of Halo 3's multiplayer (and others) uses Xbox Live's party service, the multiplayer itself is still working. The matchmaking (the system that organised match tickets to group players together in a playlist) however was an in-house bungie service which is why that shutdown.
Tell me about it. I had the fun job of migrating Quake's dedicated server protocol (the original DOS/Win Quake, that is) to virtualised servers. Getting them to launch? Fine, once we had container deployment working (though make no mistake, that was a real pain too, docker containers are hell to setup and we should have just used Windows servers to save on sanity). Getting any player to actually connect to them? I had to make changes to the code, deploy a build, find out if it 3 or more players could connect to it, then try again at least 5 times or more, until I finally had the networking migrated to allowed for virtualized port redirection. A thing the original code not only didn't know about, but actively was designed against entirely.
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Yes.
The actual gameplay networking in 360 Halo games is entirely on peer-to-peer, and joining parties can (seemingly) be done solely via Xbox Live functionality. So the games should be playable online as long as Xbox Live is supported for Xbox 360.
Matchmaking and fileshare relied on centralized Halo-specific servers, which have been shut down.
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That's so good to hear. I'm curious was it the same for Halo 2? How long did Xbox Live continue running on the OG Xbox after matchmaking was shutdown?
Dude! That's wild. Thank you for the insight. It's always interesting to hear the trials and tribulations devs go through getting critical systems running smoothly that players often take for granted.
It was the same for Halo 2, seemingly, but the Bungie servers shut down the Halo 2 servers the same time the original Xbox Live service did, so it didn't exactly matter. People could still play multiplayer as long as they were already connected, for a few days.
