Fri, Apr 16, 2010 | 00:16 BST
Original Xbox Live is dead
Do you hear that? That’s the life-support machine for Xbox Live for the original Xbox giving away. Time of death: 23:48pm BST.
Here’s the tweet from Director of Policy and Enforcement for Live on 360 Stephen Toulose that confirmed the news:
“Remember that old ‘banned’ European xbox commercial? Sad moment guys, the baby just landed in the grave. So long xbox 1 LIVE”
We’ve been told, however, this is for the US so far. European Live servers are still alive and running.
The service was due to go down at midnight PST, which was 8:00am BST yesterday morning, but people kept trucking on and playing Halo 2 until the sun didn’t shine upon the Chief no more.
And that is all she wrote. Now we return to normal programing.
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Posted in: Hot, Microsoft, Xbox, Xbox Live
Tags: Farewell you little gnome :(, Original Xbox Live
12 comments
#1
DJ Deathstar
16/04/10, 1:36 am
The king is dead! Long live the king!
#2
mojo
16/04/10, 7:49 am
RIP
#3
mington
16/04/10, 8:53 am
TANGO SUCKA
#4
Blerk
16/04/10, 8:56 am
Damn, I never did get a chance to play on it.
#5
endgame
16/04/10, 9:02 am
which means that u won’t be able to play some games anymore. games that u’ve actually payed for. what a f**king joke.
u guys got seriously ownd on this one. hah.
#6
Blerk
16/04/10, 9:14 am
I don’t think anything actually stops working entirely apart from the odd bit of DLC and the online multiplayer modes.
#7
polygem
16/04/10, 10:07 am
i don´t get it…what about halo2 multiplayer if you will buy it at games on demand…will you be able to still play it online? if not it should get a huge price drop.
#8
Blerk
16/04/10, 10:13 am
It probably should, yeah.
#9
Retro
16/04/10, 2:00 pm
“endgame: which means that u won’t be able to play some games anymore. games that u’ve actually payed for. what a f**king joke. u guys got seriously ownd on this one. hah.”
Not really, given that I haven’t used “Classic” Xbox Live for a good 4 years, I’m doing fine. All my current-gen Xbox 360 titles (ie. the ones that I’m actually PLAYING) are completely unaffected. I smell a PS3 fanboi.
#10
cookiejar
16/04/10, 2:04 pm
Never had an Xbox so I never saw much Xbox Live action, but MechAssault looked nuts! I would of had some of that.
#11
Mauller
16/04/10, 3:53 pm
MechAssault was awesome online. To hell with Halo, give me Mechs or give me death!
#12
Hunam
16/04/10, 6:02 pm
/salutes