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Halo Xbox 360 look back as the servers shut down next wee...
4 years ago
Today is the last week for the Halo online servers on the 360. In case you don’t know. I posted a journal explaining that on December the servers were shutting down for the Halo games on the 360. Here is my previous journal if you want the full details. After I posted that journal the shutdown date was pushed back to January 13th.
https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/9956140/
This meant that online multiplayer for the following games, Halo 3, Halo Reach, Halo ODST and Halo 4 servers will deactivate and you will no longer be able to play multiplayer Xbox Live, no more file sharing and no more challenges on Halo Reach and 4. It also means that achievements for multiplayer on these games will no longer be unlocked if you haven’t unlocked them already. You can still unlock the single player achievements but the rest? Not so much.
I wanted to reflect my experience as a casual Halo fan who walked away from the series at Halo 4 due to a traumatic event that I wish to spare the details about.
When all said and done. I’ve now got all the achievements for the legacy 360 games, save Spartan Assault but I think I can still get those with another player after January via game sharing. Instead, I’ve spent the last few months helping others get their achievements, even today, as of this journal’s posting, I’ve helped a player get his 7 on 7 achievement, which is to get 7 exp on the 7th day of the month which is the last opportunity to get it. I think I’ve given him closure for that. But I have had a few occasions where I messed up badly for others but I will say that I hold my hands up about it.
What’s worse is that I learnt that Halo Waypoint, being discontinued meant that I couldn’t get the last Halo Waypoint Award due to a bugged code system that won’t unlock the armour piece, even though I’ve met the requirements. That’s very frustrating but what can I do?
I also won’t be able to preserve my service record as I missed that opportunity a long time ago.
Looking back I can honestly say that Halo Reach was my favourite Halo Game in terms of multiplayer and I will likely play it again this weekend. I just want to give the games one last hurrah before their sun sets. I kinda feel sad this is happening but time moves on and so will all of us.
https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/9956140/
This meant that online multiplayer for the following games, Halo 3, Halo Reach, Halo ODST and Halo 4 servers will deactivate and you will no longer be able to play multiplayer Xbox Live, no more file sharing and no more challenges on Halo Reach and 4. It also means that achievements for multiplayer on these games will no longer be unlocked if you haven’t unlocked them already. You can still unlock the single player achievements but the rest? Not so much.
I wanted to reflect my experience as a casual Halo fan who walked away from the series at Halo 4 due to a traumatic event that I wish to spare the details about.
When all said and done. I’ve now got all the achievements for the legacy 360 games, save Spartan Assault but I think I can still get those with another player after January via game sharing. Instead, I’ve spent the last few months helping others get their achievements, even today, as of this journal’s posting, I’ve helped a player get his 7 on 7 achievement, which is to get 7 exp on the 7th day of the month which is the last opportunity to get it. I think I’ve given him closure for that. But I have had a few occasions where I messed up badly for others but I will say that I hold my hands up about it.
What’s worse is that I learnt that Halo Waypoint, being discontinued meant that I couldn’t get the last Halo Waypoint Award due to a bugged code system that won’t unlock the armour piece, even though I’ve met the requirements. That’s very frustrating but what can I do?
I also won’t be able to preserve my service record as I missed that opportunity a long time ago.
Looking back I can honestly say that Halo Reach was my favourite Halo Game in terms of multiplayer and I will likely play it again this weekend. I just want to give the games one last hurrah before their sun sets. I kinda feel sad this is happening but time moves on and so will all of us.
