Xbox Live is being shutdown for Original Xbox(On April 15th)

www.youtube.com/user/Lazyhoboguy · Kai Enthusiast Joined: 05 Apr 2008 Posts: 288

http://majornelson.com/archive/2010/02/05/xbox-live-being-discontinued-for-original-xbox-consoles-and-games.aspx

Thought this might be an important thing to pass on.

Kai Lover Joined: 23 Dec 2007 Posts: 911

As long as XLink is still around. I'm sure this little piece of news isn't really much to worry about unless your worry about your rank in a play list going bye bye

Kai Lover Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 957

This is in a way good news for Xlink Kai . Twisted Evil

Kai Beginner Joined: 01 Aug 2008 Posts: 58

I'm surprised at how long it lasted after the Xbox 360 came out.

www.youtube.com/user/Lazyhoboguy · Kai Enthusiast Joined: 05 Apr 2008 Posts: 288

Yea. It is a bit funny that ps2 online is lasting longer, when it is a free service and people had to pay 50 bucks a year for xbox live.

Nintendo Specialist Joined: 23 Jun 2004 Posts: 1889

are they just discontinuing the service for the old xbox and keeping the servers up for the older games?

if not that makes backwards computability almost pointless

Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 4:43 am

Xbox Live for the original xbox will be stopping but the servers will stay up for the 360 so gamers can still play online as far as what ive read

Team XLink Developer Joined: 28 Nov 2007 Posts: 2338

Just to clarify; All xbox live functionality in original xbox games, no matter what console you play it on, will stop working.

Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 11:11 am

(-TU-)CrunchBite wrote:

Just to clarify; All xbox live functionality in original xbox games, no matter what console you play it on, will stop working.

Thanks for the confirmation crunch Razz

Team XLink Administrator Joined: 04 Jun 2004 Posts: 4371

well make sure when reading articles about this you post in the comments that kai is still here and kickin :]

Nintendo Specialist Joined: 23 Jun 2004 Posts: 1889

this makes me sad. even tho i dont play halo 2 much anymore.
i was very sad when MGS3 Subsistence shut down.
....holy crap this chick on tv is really hot....sorry random interjection
but yeah makes me sad. like when they cancel a show u really like.

Kai Lover Joined: 23 Dec 2007 Posts: 911

Lowbrassman04 wrote:

like when they cancel a show u really like.

Or "Stop hosting a game type play list on double exp weekends on halo 3 that you really love" *Cough* "Rocket Race" *Cough*

Kai Beginner Joined: 26 Feb 2010 Posts: 2

xlink and xbconnect will see bigger number of people now

PSP Guru Joined: 07 Apr 2007 Posts: 2405

What's the point in paying for xbox live, when they still shut down servers.... what are you paying for..

Kai Lover Joined: 23 Dec 2007 Posts: 911

-Ricochet- wrote:

What's the point in paying for xbox live, when they still shut down servers.... what are you paying for..

Ads and New News. That's all I've seen Microsoft do besides take your money through DLC.

Kai Beginner Joined: 22 Mar 2009 Posts: 41

(((OU812))) wrote:

xlink and xbconnect will see bigger number of people now

Even with alot of people promoting both programs on the xbox.com forum aswell as other places, people are too stupid and/or lary to even try them.

www.youtube.com/user/Lazyhoboguy · Kai Enthusiast Joined: 05 Apr 2008 Posts: 288

hobo_joe44 wrote:

(((OU812))) wrote:

xlink and xbconnect will see bigger number of people now

Even with alot of people promoting both programs on the xbox.com forum aswell as other places, people are too stupid and/or lary to even try them.

Unfortunately I think he is on to something. I did my duty. After this announcement whenever I came across a thread or article about this I would inform them of xlink. Then people would comment directly under me bitching about how they could never play any xbox games online again ever....

Kai Beginner Joined: 17 Dec 2007 Posts: 44

I've been doing all I can to get the Steel Battalion: Line of Contact community over to Kai. Since the controller ONLY works on Xbox1 and we paid so much for them, It'd be a waist to stop now...

So far we have about 15 people, but that is just USA based.

I hope the Japanese get into it as well... There are ALOT of them who still play Smile

Side note, anyone interested in plying LoC, follow this link:

http://www.lineofcontact.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=6242

Kai Lover Joined: 23 Dec 2007 Posts: 911

http://ebm.email.xbox.com/c/tag/hBLj69PAlyGDmB791i$M4WDQkac/doc.html?

Kai Beginner Joined: 22 Mar 2009 Posts: 41

lazyhobobum wrote:

hobo_joe44 wrote:

(((OU812))) wrote:

xlink and xbconnect will see bigger number of people now

Even with alot of people promoting both programs on the xbox.com forum aswell as other places, people are too stupid and/or lary to even try them.

Unfortunately I think he is on to something. I did my duty. After this announcement whenever I came across a thread or article about this I would inform them of xlink. Then people would comment directly under me bitching about how they could never play any xbox games online again ever....

It's a "you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink" situation.

Even after being informed of the tunneling programs people still go on with "(Insert game) is now dead!" or "There won't enough people to sustain the community of (insert game)"
Sure there might not be 100+ people that own a certain game on each tunneling program but you can find atleast a few.