Xbox LIVE Discontinued for Original Xbox

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UK, February 5, 2010 - Microsoft is pulling the plug on the original Xbox as Xbox LIVE support is being discontinued for the console on April 15.

The discontinuation of Xbox Live extends to Xbox Originals and Xbox games playable on the Xbox 360.

"This isn't a decision we made lightly, but after careful consideration, it is clear this will provide the greatest benefit to the Xbox LIVE community," said Microsoft's Marc Whitten. First launched in 2002, Xbox LIVE has since become the cornerstone of Microsoft's console strategy, enjoying huge popularity on the Xbox 360 with some 23 million users.

Source: http://xboxlive.ign.com/articles/106/1066930p1.html
 
Wow, kinda wish I hadn't bought some XBOX Originals now. That's the whole reason I got Splinter Cell Chaos Theory!
 
More like, "We're losing money everytime you buy one of the old xbox games for 5$, please stop doing that and spend money on the new 60$ games so we can make a profit, since you guys probably wont do that we're just not going to let you anymore, lol. We're not greedy though, we swear."

Ah...console gaming. If PC games were on consoles it would be like pulling the plug on CS 1.6, and they could pull the plug on all the old game communites that build up over time which is a LOT of people. Console gamers just don't understand the value of these communities.
 
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Cut Chem!st said:
More like, "We're losing money everytime you buy one of the old xbox games for 5$, please stop doing that and spend money on the new 60$ games so we can make a profit, since you guys probably wont do that we're just not going to let you anymore, lol. We're not greedy though, we swear."

Ah...console gaming. If PC games were on consoles it would be like pulling the plug on CS 1.6, and they could pull the plug on all the old game communites that build up over time which is a LOT of people. Console gamers just don't understand the value of these communities.
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To bad you could be more wrong.
 
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Good job explaning your point there.
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The original XBL is holding back what MS wants to do with the current XBL. I guess you missed this part.
"This isn't a decision we made lightly, but after careful consideration, it is clear this will provide the greatest benefit to the Xbox LIVE community," said Microsoft's Marc Whitten. First launched in 2002, Xbox LIVE has since become the cornerstone of Microsoft's console strategy, enjoying huge popularity on the Xbox 360 with some 23 million users.

"I want to assure you that the best is yet to come for Xbox LIVE," Whitten continued "I believe we'll look back on 2010 as a landmark year in gaming and home entertainment, and I couldn't be more excited about what we have in store with "Project Natal" and LIVE."
 
Jarrod_38 said:
The original XBL is holding back what MS wants to do with the current XBL. I guess you missed this part.
"This isn't a decision we made lightly, but after careful consideration, it is clear this will provide the greatest benefit to the Xbox LIVE community," said Microsoft's Marc Whitten. First launched in 2002, Xbox LIVE has since become the cornerstone of Microsoft's console strategy, enjoying huge popularity on the Xbox 360 with some 23 million users.

"I want to assure you that the best is yet to come for Xbox LIVE," Whitten continued "I believe we'll look back on 2010 as a landmark year in gaming and home entertainment, and I couldn't be more excited about what we have in store with "Project Natal" and LIVE."
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Oh no. I read that pretty clearly, it's just pretty easily interpreted. There is many ways that could have kept the support for it. They are most definitely just wanting to get rid of the old xbox game/used game market for them.
 
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Oh no. I read that pretty clearly, it's just pretty easily interpreted. There is many ways that could have kept the support for it. They are most definitely just wanting to get rid of the old xbox game/used game market for them.
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This has nothing to do with the used game market. Now this is a serious question to you have a problem with consoles games?
 
Well it's kind of obvious that the number of people that are still play original Xbox games online has dropped to a level where Microsoft feels it safe enough to pull the plug. They wouldn't have killed it if it wasn't costing them money to keep it up and running. Nor would they have killed it if there was a sustained community still lingering. It seems to me that they are just cutting overhead.

Also, I seriously doubt that Microsoft cares about the used game market for an old system. Most of the games are discontinued and there isn't much money to be had.
 
Well, it would be a much larger deal if you couldn't play the games at all. That would be mean.

I can think of 3 reasons for a console: Legend of Zelda, God of War and NHL
 
Yeah even though I am sad that I can't take games like Splinter Cell: CT or even MechAssault 2 online anymore (after April 15th) it does make sense. You can't find more than 4 people playing any of those games at any time.

On the good side of it most of the original xbox games support local (LAN) playing for multi-player, but now I have to talk my friends into getting them lol.
 
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i dont really get how they can do that that would be like valve cutting multiplayer support for the goldsrc games.

and no TFC, DoD, CS, NS would be devastating to valve.
 
Passerby said:
i dont really get how they can do that that would be like valve cutting multiplayer support for the goldsrc games.

and no TFC, DoD, CS, NS would be devastating to valve.
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Assuming the goldsrc community wasn't still a decent size and Valve was the one hosting the game instances or some part of it, then this would be the case. Since dedicated servers exists this isn't a problem

and agree w/ second part. That'd piss so many people off.
 
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