Well that’s sad.
But do people really still use the OG online services anyway?
MCC is pretty superb now, i can play most of the online content I want with that from all of the older halos. Only games that will be significantly affected will be Halo Wars and Spartan Assault, neither of which I’ve played online so I don’t know what the player base is like these days anyway.
Honestly I wouldn’t be surprised if the whole 360 online system gets shut down soon, can’t be that many players except on the odd game that isn’t back-compat or wasn’t carried over into the newer store.
There was actually a dedicated group of people who still played the original Halo 3 daily. Hell, I even ran into someone from Bungie playing Halo 3 on its final day before Microsoft shut it down.
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I went on Halo 3 360 probably a couple months after the pandemic started. There were definitely people still playing, and with over 100 thousands games played lol