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Halo 2 PC Going Offline Permanently February 15

By Landon Robinson | 17 January 2013 | 6 Comments   

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Jessica “bsangel” Shea, community manager at Halo Waypoint, announced in the company’s weekly Halo Bulletin that Halo 2 for PC will be closing its online servers permanently on February 15, 2013. The shutdown is due to consistently low levels of player activity, as tends to be symptoms of a game as ancient as that.

“We’ve been monitoring the population for months, and it’s been peaking consistently at approximately 20 players or less. Those that own this game can continue to enjoy Multiplayer over LAN after that date; however our network services will be turned off at that time. We love you, Halo 2 PC, and you will live forever in our hearts.”

The Xbox Live multiplayer component of Halo 2 was put out to pasture in April of 2010, as online activity there was also similarly dwindling. Sad, but true.

Long have we known that events such as these would come to pass, but even longer have we dreamed they would never actually arrive at our doorstep. We’d hoped that that area would only be reserved for Amazon packages, welcoming doormats and rats left there by the neighbor’s cat.

You’ve fought bravely, Halo 2, but now you must butterfly jump, tank-spin, and rocket cancel your way into the sunset.

Goodnight, dear friend.

[Source: Halo Waypoint]

6 Comments

  1. Posted by Mugenite on 17 January 13 at 12:28pm

    I recall all those machinima shows with Halo 2 clips. Damn, how I will miss u… Sad face…

  2. Posted by SAK on 17 January 13 at 12:37pm

    And no one shall ever play Lockout, the best halo map ever created ever again.

  3. Posted by Mark on 17 January 13 at 2:43pm

    Maybe now Microsoft will release Halo 3 for PCs…

    …And 1990′s Angelina Jolie will ask me on a date, and I’ll cure Cancer and other ridiculously impossible things will happen.

    • Posted by DMatomisk on 17 January 13 at 3:11pm

      Halo would be allot better off with the mod support that this and CE revived. If only.

      • Posted by LR on 22 January 13 at 5:19am

        I can’t even imagine a Halo with mod support. My, what a game that would be.

        Read as: OMFG IF A HALO EVER GETS MOD SUPPORT I WILL JIZZ SO MUCH THE WORLD WILL NEVER GO THIRSTY AGAIN

  4. Posted by M12 on 09 February 13 at 2:03pm

    Maybe the population would be higher if they fixed the issue on family accounts not being able to play it!! Really! I’d be playing a ton if my family account could play it. So many people have this issue, and Microsoft is ignoring it!

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