Microsoft shutting down the original Xbox Live service

[tronfaq]

Microsoft is shutting down Xbox Live for the original Xbox.

To me, this is the perfect evidence to use in rebuttal whenever a game publisher "promises" that their online authentication DRM will never go down. Or that if it does, they will release a patch that will allow you to continue playing your games.

Bullshit. If even Microsoft is willing to hang original Xbox owners out to dry, what will make the situation different at any other company? If anyone has the financial resources to keep their customers happy, it's Microsoft. But even they're not willing to do so.

This is why publishers shouldn't be allowed to keep gaining more and more control over your gaming experience. Look at what's happened: everyone who still wants to play the Multiplayer component of their original Xbox games is screwed. Even Halo and Halo 2 aren't immune to this, their Multiplayer is saying bye-bye as well. Even if you play it on the 360 using backwards compatibility.

Now, Microsoft will probably be forced to do something about Halo and Halo 2 due to the inevitable outcry. There will be enough Halo players to get their attention. But good luck with any other games.

This means that multiplayer in Tron 2.0: Killer App on the Xbox is completely dead. Whereas on the PC, it may not be that active, but luckily we can still play Tron 2.0 when we want to.

[tronman63304]

[Jizaboz]

This means that multiplayer in Tron 2.0: Killer App on the Xbox is completely dead. Whereas on the PC, it may not be that active, but luckily we can still play Tron 2.0 when we want to.

This whole thing makes me a bit angry. SEGA kept the Phantasy Star Online servers up way after the "general lifespan" of the game itself and the Dreamcast. Also, SEGA isn't prosecuting those who are running private servers so that poor ol' Dreamcast players & PC gamers with the original PSO discs can STILL play PSO.

You know M$ won't be releasing the binaries for people to run their own old servers! And like you said, you CAN still play Tron 2.0 multiplayer though Just because I can tell you that no one is playing Tron 2.0 MP at the moment, LOL the game servers are up... and the Tronlink server is humming along in my living room

If the new Tron game comes out and totally sucks and more wish to use Tronlink to find other Tron 2.0 servers, you can be sure I'll keep hosting Daddyo's program server after the new game comes out.

[floven1]

thanks jizaboz

[tronfaq]

You know M$ won't be releasing the binaries for people to run their own old servers!

Nope. Multiplayer on the old Xbox is dead, dead, dead.

What pisses me off is that Disney asked Climax to put the extra effort into Killer App's Multiplayer on the Xbox, and it completely went to waste. The game was even less popular on the Xbox than it is on the PC. It sold worse, it compromised a few things (some cuts were made) in order to cram it into the Xbox's more limited memory, it had some terrible bugs that never got fixed, and the younger crowd that generally games on the Xbox (or any console) just didn't give a s.h.i.t about it. (It didn't help that Disney released the game on the same day Halo 2 came out, either. Or that they tried to peddle Killer App as some kind of Halo knock-off.)

But it did have improved Multiplayer modes, which the PC version really could have benefitted from. Yet, BVG/Disney were too cheap and stubborn to release any kind of expansion or update to add these. It didn't have to be for free, I'm sure a lot of players would have been glad to buy an inexpensive update. And the cost of porting these changes back to the PC would have been pretty negligible.

Now a few years after release, nobody will be playing the new Multiplayer modes any more anyway. Again, what a tragic waste.

[tronman63304]

you know maybe thats why they had the helmets in T2.0KA make it look like halo

thats what they looked like to me

[tronfaq]

you know maybe thats why they had the helmets in T2.0KA make it look like halo

thats what they looked like to me

That's exactly why they did it. It was the first thing everyone commented on when they saw the first screenshots. "Those helmets look like they came out of Halo!"

Then they added that awful music from Breaking Benjamin, again in an effort to rip-off Halo. BB did the music for Halo 2. I later found out that even the guys at Climax working on Killer App hated the music, and thought it was a stupid decision to add it to a Tron game.