Today is April 14th and marks the day that the first, decent online console gaming service is shut down and taken offline indefinitely. The original Xbox Live was a pioneering platform that paved the way to the current generation of consoles and their online services (though this was inevitable), such as the PlayStation Network and current Xbox Live.
How does this affect you?
When the original Xbox Live stops running, some of the classic games server will be taken offline with it. This includes big hitters like Halo 2 and Battlefront 2 – games that still garner a lot of support from their respective fan-bases. Halo 2 and similar games will still have their single player functionality, but all online attributes will no longer be available after today.
I was personally never a fan of the Halo series and haven’t touched an original Xbox game in years, but statistics show there are still plenty of people playing these games on a regular basis.
