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by jlgreco 4748 days ago
> Once the XB1 lifecycle is over, I have no guarantee I will be able to play the games I bought.

Sooner than that though, right? Weren't they shutting off Halo servers when new Halo games came out during the same console lifecycle?

Of course that is a problem you'll have with multiplayer on all the consoles I guess. Maybe gamers are okay with that. I would be bummed as hell if I couldn't play the occasional quake match anymore though.
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duskwuff 4748 days ago
Halo: CE (i.e, Halo 1) didn't support online play, as it was released before Xbox Live was available.

Halo 2 was released in 2004 (on the Xbox!), and the online play servers were just shut down earlier this year. Given that the platform it was released on has nearly been superseded twice by now (first by the Xbox 360, and soon by the Xbox One), I think they've given it a fair run.

As far as I'm aware, all of the other Halo games are still playable online.

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jlgreco 4748 days ago
Wikipedia has Halo 2 multiplayer on the xbox being shut down in April of 2010 (while on the PC it lived until this year). That is not the sort of lifecycle I expect from a game that I enjoy (I still play Doom on occasion, and that was released two whole decades ago. Half-Life, from 1998, is still played online as well. Halo 2 was only from 2004, was massively successful, and is dead.)
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dragontamer 4748 days ago
Difference: if XBoxOne servers are ever shut down, single-player XBoxOne experience will be destroyed due to stupid DRM.
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jlgreco 4748 days ago
Yup, and it is not like Microsoft has never threatened to shut down DRM servers before.
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gergles 4747 days ago
It's not like they've done it before: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20080422/234401923.shtml
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jiggy2011 4748 days ago
I think he means if they turn off all the servers , so there is nowhere for the console to "call home" to. So you will be unable to play at all.

Hopefully they will just patch the console to enable offline play before this happens, but I guess you don't know for sure.

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pyrocat 4748 days ago
Why bother spending money to pay a developer to patch it for offline play? They already have your money.
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jiggy2011 4748 days ago
Long term goodwill I suppose.
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