I had a thought run through my head, What if HALO X1 comes out and shortly after in a “business decision” MS was going to shut down the online for Halo Wars, Halo 3, Halo ODST, Halo Reach and Halo 4? I mean it’s going to happen eventually but pulling the plug on them soon after Halo X1 would force many to move on up to Xbox One to get their Halo fix again. Also I’m assuming that Halo X1 is the next Halo FPS game out on X1, If not Halo X1 then if the rumored Halo 2 Anniversary would be the catalyst for 360 Halo shutdown.
I think this could be a good yet dangerous move because one of the problems with the last 2 Halo online experiences was that sections of the Halo community clung onto the previous games and rejected the Newer Halos due to numerous personal preferences, but the problem that occurred was that the segmentation of Halo online community reduces active players amongst each game and low game population typically reduces the over all quality of all online matchmaking.
One of the factors that built Halo 2 and Halo 3 as a online experience was that they arrived without the plethora of online console shooters that exist today and buy removing the direct in house competition that the older Halos provide then at least Halo X1 wouldn’t be fighting against it’s past in the present which might consolidate the Halo community into a larger whole once again.
I am not going to assume a move like this wouldn’t receive a vocal backlash from the community and it could completely alienate many Halo fans to the point of no return.
I think the core of the idea isn’t bad, which is to have all the Halo community in one place again, but hopefully Halo X1 wouldn’t require purging the 360 online to encourage everyone to jump in on Halo X1 and Halo X1 gets everyone together on it’s own merits.
That is definitely not going to happen for a long time.
To shut down the Xbox 360 Halos’ support they’d need to shut down Xbox Live for the whole 360 or trash each game’s multiplayer beyond playability so no one plays it anyway.
Doing that would just be stupid and is extremely unlikely.
I don’t think this is a good idea at all. There are still so many more Xbox 360 users than there are Xbox One users. Anybody who doesn’t own an Xbox One by the time Halo 5 has been released most likely wasn’t going to have one, Xbox 360 servers being online or not. Cutting out the service for past games so quickly would do nothing but anger people.
What they’re going to do is simply slowly cut support for the Xbox 360 and release interesting games on the Xbox One, as they did with the Xbox to Xbox 360 transition. This will slowly push gamers to move to the new system, as they’ve done before.
Between knowing the 360 is being completely supported for at least another 2.5 years, having a recent Halo game on a non-Xbox, having such games as Spartan Assault, Halo Wars and ODST and even having the recent MS answer to Siri with Cortana, I find it curious how one can ponder such fears.
Though XB0 is certain to get games the 360 would not do justice, I am more than confident that there are XB0 and 360 shared Halo titles yet to be released. Between the MS confidence support for Halo with its naming of Cortana for its interactive “AI,” the consistent trickling of Halo TV/Movie based news released by MS reps and of course the recent addition of Spartan Assault to Steam… I have the following cued for post E3 announcements: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWLIgjB9gGw
Halo on every platform MS supports is going nowhere. See link above ;D
> Between knowing the 360 is being completely supported for at least another 2.5 years, having a recent Halo game on a non-Xbox, having such games as Spartan Assault, Halo Wars and ODST and even having the recent MS answer to Siri with Cortana, I find it curious how one can ponder such fears.
This is a little off-topic, but just seems to me that her voice doesn’t sound as much like Jen as i would have hoped. The computer generator is certainly more dominate than the actress at this point
> I had a thought run through my head, What if HALO X1 comes out and shortly after in a “business decision” MS was going to shut down the online for Halo Wars, Halo 3, Halo ODST, Halo Reach and Halo 4? I mean it’s going to happen eventually but pulling the plug on them soon after Halo X1 would force many to move on up to Xbox One to get their Halo fix again. Also I’m assuming that Halo X1 is the next Halo FPS game out on X1, If not Halo X1 then if the rumored Halo 2 Anniversary would be the catalyst for 360 Halo shutdown.
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> I think this could be a good yet dangerous move because one of the problems with the last 2 Halo online experiences was that sections of the Halo community clung onto the previous games and rejected the Newer Halos due to numerous personal preferences, but the problem that occurred was that the segmentation of Halo online community reduces active players amongst each game and low game population typically reduces the over all quality of all online matchmaking.
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> One of the factors that built Halo 2 and Halo 3 as a online experience was that they arrived without the plethora of online console shooters that exist today and buy removing the direct in house competition that the older Halos provide then at least Halo X1 wouldn’t be fighting against it’s past in the present which might consolidate the Halo community into a larger whole once again.
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> I am not going to assume a move like this wouldn’t receive a vocal backlash from the community and it could completely alienate many Halo fans to the point of no return.
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> I think the core of the idea isn’t bad, which is to have all the Halo community in one place again, but hopefully Halo X1 wouldn’t require purging the 360 online to encourage everyone to jump in on Halo X1 and Halo X1 gets everyone together on it’s own merits.
This is just unnecessary FUD (Fear, Uncertainty and doubt). There is no way Microsoft would do such a thing as above for many, MANY years. Why you would suggest such a thing is not to promote discussion but to spread FUD about halo being on Xbox One.
