http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/xbox-v1-games-systems-no-longer-live-microsofts-pulling-the-p/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/xbox-v1-games-systems-no-longer-live-microsofts-pulling-the-p/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/xbox-v1-games-systems-no-longer-live-microsofts-pulling-the-p/Feb 5th 2010 4:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/xbox-v1-games-systems-no-longer-live-microsofts-pulling-the-p/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/xbox-v1-games-systems-no-longer-live-microsofts-pulling-the-p/Feb 5th 2010 5:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/xbox-v1-games-systems-no-longer-live-microsofts-pulling-the-p/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/xbox-v1-games-systems-no-longer-live-microsofts-pulling-the-p/It's okay, I picked up an extra life. ]]>Feb 5th 2010 8:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/xbox-v1-games-systems-no-longer-live-microsofts-pulling-the-p/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/xbox-v1-games-systems-no-longer-live-microsofts-pulling-the-p/
I think Engadget has this wrong. This is what other places are saying.

"So say you downloaded an Xbox Originals game onto your Xbox 360. That game will still play just fine, but don't expect to go online with it. The same general rule applies to every vintage Xbox title no matter the grander Xbox platform."

So, you CAN still play your games, just not on LIVE, which is ok because live for the original xbox is all but dead anyway]]>Feb 5th 2010 9:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/xbox-v1-games-systems-no-longer-live-microsofts-pulling-the-p/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/xbox-v1-games-systems-no-longer-live-microsofts-pulling-the-p/That's what they meant...]]>Feb 5th 2010 9:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/xbox-v1-games-systems-no-longer-live-microsofts-pulling-the-p/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/xbox-v1-games-systems-no-longer-live-microsofts-pulling-the-p/
Uhhhhhhhh...... That's exactly what engadget is saying.....]]>Feb 5th 2010 10:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/xbox-v1-games-systems-no-longer-live-microsofts-pulling-the-p/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/xbox-v1-games-systems-no-longer-live-microsofts-pulling-the-p/Feb 5th 2010 11:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/xbox-v1-games-systems-no-longer-live-microsofts-pulling-the-p/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/xbox-v1-games-systems-no-longer-live-microsofts-pulling-the-p/
Oh but come on, no one has more than 100 friends. Bill Gates said so. I mean, "640K ought to be enough for anybody"... and "we will never make a 32-bit operating system".]]>Feb 5th 2010 2:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/xbox-v1-games-systems-no-longer-live-microsofts-pulling-the-p/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/xbox-v1-games-systems-no-longer-live-microsofts-pulling-the-p/
This is sad and engagdet is right...we need to get some more Halo2 live action in while it's still around. Halo2 on live will be missed. I remember when it first came out back in August of 2004 I was on a business trip and had to wait almost a whole week before I could play it. Halo2 made XBOX live the success that it is today. So let's all get back on it these next few months and live it up. Just please...no deleveling, superjumping, or ghost sword death matches on lockout. Slayer rockets to 30 anyone?]]>Feb 5th 2010 2:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/xbox-v1-games-systems-no-longer-live-microsofts-pulling-the-p/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/xbox-v1-games-systems-no-longer-live-microsofts-pulling-the-p/Feb 5th 2010 2:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/xbox-v1-games-systems-no-longer-live-microsofts-pulling-the-p/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/xbox-v1-games-systems-no-longer-live-microsofts-pulling-the-p/
November 2004... I was just a child. No really, I will still in Middle School! It was 11:30pm when I arrived at Gamestop (then EB Games). I was just 1 sub-freezing hour away from getting home and missing school the next day. But wait... I got in trouble that day. I did something, but I can't remember what. My mom, who is normally a very laid back person, said that if I missed school that day, I wasn't going to play Xbox for a week.

I went to school, and when I got home, I loaded Halo 2. But wait, what's this? I have to wait 10 minutes for matchmaking, if it even works? Bungie said the servers were overloaded. But it got better after a few days.

Ah, the memories. If only my copy of Halo 2 didn't get scratched to hell, I'd be right there with ya. So I'll be playing Halo 3 and pouring one for New Mombasa.]]>Feb 5th 2010 2:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/xbox-v1-games-systems-no-longer-live-microsofts-pulling-the-p/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/xbox-v1-games-systems-no-longer-live-microsofts-pulling-the-p/Feb 5th 2010 4:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/xbox-v1-games-systems-no-longer-live-microsofts-pulling-the-p/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/xbox-v1-games-systems-no-longer-live-microsofts-pulling-the-p/
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Or give us groups.]]>Feb 5th 2010 5:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/xbox-v1-games-systems-no-longer-live-microsofts-pulling-the-p/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/xbox-v1-games-systems-no-longer-live-microsofts-pulling-the-p/
If GameType = XboxOriginal then
Load100FriendsList
Else
LoadFullFriendsList
End If]]>Feb 5th 2010 5:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/xbox-v1-games-systems-no-longer-live-microsofts-pulling-the-p/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/xbox-v1-games-systems-no-longer-live-microsofts-pulling-the-p/
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Incidentally I just got my original Xbox back on its feet this week and was looking foward to some nostalgic Halo 2 action, so I suppose I should get a move on. On the upside, this is hardly an impediment to my Legendary run and the shut-off gives me no excuse not to chuck in that 300GB HDD I've been thinking about for so long.]]>Feb 5th 2010 6:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/xbox-v1-games-systems-no-longer-live-microsofts-pulling-the-p/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/xbox-v1-games-systems-no-longer-live-microsofts-pulling-the-p/
I can't say this affects me, although I do find it strange. I never played original xbox games on the 360 because it was always so buggy with poor frame rate. But I would be mad if I bought one off of the digital downloads and then was told I couldn't play it anymore.]]>Feb 5th 2010 8:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/xbox-v1-games-systems-no-longer-live-microsofts-pulling-the-p/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/xbox-v1-games-systems-no-longer-live-microsofts-pulling-the-p/
Limitiation of the Original Xbox's UI. The list only went to 100 and by the time they would have gotten around to updating it, the 360 came out and its all history now...

Besides, Nobody bitched this much when Sony removed backwards compatibility from the PS3?

You can't have new and shiny and expect the old dinosaur to work at the same time. OS X vs. Windows is a prime example.]]>Feb 5th 2010 9:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/xbox-v1-games-systems-no-longer-live-microsofts-pulling-the-p/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/xbox-v1-games-systems-no-longer-live-microsofts-pulling-the-p/
"Besides, Nobody bitched this much when Sony removed backwards compatibility from the PS3?"

Please tell me this was sarcasm. All I ever hear is bitching about PS3 bc. I've seen plenty of people state that as the only reason they won't buy one. I never really understood why it's such a big deal, but to each his own.]]>Feb 5th 2010 9:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/xbox-v1-games-systems-no-longer-live-microsofts-pulling-the-p/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/xbox-v1-games-systems-no-longer-live-microsofts-pulling-the-p/
Which friends should it load? Does it really make sense to have it load only 100 when the ones I want may not show up. Which means MS would have to develop a way to let users pick which ones show up on their Xbox.

It isn't as easy a simple if statement. I can't believe people actually high-ranked your comment. Guess it shows that there are many intelligent folks on Engagdet. I should have kept the comments off.]]>Feb 5th 2010 9:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/xbox-v1-games-systems-no-longer-live-microsofts-pulling-the-p/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/xbox-v1-games-systems-no-longer-live-microsofts-pulling-the-p/
Yes it was.

Personally, this won't affect me. All of my XBOX originals are in a closet gathering dust anyway.

Price of progress.]]>Feb 5th 2010 9:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/xbox-v1-games-systems-no-longer-live-microsofts-pulling-the-p/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/xbox-v1-games-systems-no-longer-live-microsofts-pulling-the-p/Feb 5th 2010 9:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/xbox-v1-games-systems-no-longer-live-microsofts-pulling-the-p/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/xbox-v1-games-systems-no-longer-live-microsofts-pulling-the-p/
Well as it stands now, If you have a friends list of 100, the ones that are currently online fly up to the top in alphabetical order and offline picks up at the end accordingly, which is ALONG way from the friends list on the original xbox where you had to search your list for online friends.]]>Feb 5th 2010 9:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/xbox-v1-games-systems-no-longer-live-microsofts-pulling-the-p/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/xbox-v1-games-systems-no-longer-live-microsofts-pulling-the-p/
Oh I know, but the other 90% of posters don't. Personally, the article is somewhat misleading / confusing compared to the others I've read today]]>Feb 5th 2010 9:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/xbox-v1-games-systems-no-longer-live-microsofts-pulling-the-p/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/xbox-v1-games-systems-no-longer-live-microsofts-pulling-the-p/
I was going to tell you making a 100 user list for the old xbox be compatible with the new xbox isn't that easy seeing how you can't update the old xbox's code.

But after further analysis, seeing as how you posted in VB, you must be very new to computers.]]>Feb 5th 2010 5:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/xbox-v1-games-systems-no-longer-live-microsofts-pulling-the-p/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/xbox-v1-games-systems-no-longer-live-microsofts-pulling-the-p/
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I fully agree. It's short changing people for no reason, and what i think is more annoying is that to keep a few servers kickin over in the background would cost Redmond next to nothing, proportional to the amount of paid up Live users...

I mean some Dreamcast titles only just got their servers yanked...come on Microsoft do the right thing....]]>Feb 5th 2010 9:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/xbox-v1-games-systems-no-longer-live-microsofts-pulling-the-p/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/xbox-v1-games-systems-no-longer-live-microsofts-pulling-the-p/Feb 5th 2010 11:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/xbox-v1-games-systems-no-longer-live-microsofts-pulling-the-p/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/xbox-v1-games-systems-no-longer-live-microsofts-pulling-the-p/Feb 5th 2010 4:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/xbox-v1-games-systems-no-longer-live-microsofts-pulling-the-p/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/xbox-v1-games-systems-no-longer-live-microsofts-pulling-the-p/]]>Feb 5th 2010 5:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/xbox-v1-games-systems-no-longer-live-microsofts-pulling-the-p/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/xbox-v1-games-systems-no-longer-live-microsofts-pulling-the-p/I disagree with everything you just said. I despise Microsoft, but I love my 360 and its UI/UE.]]>Feb 5th 2010 6:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/xbox-v1-games-systems-no-longer-live-microsofts-pulling-the-p/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/xbox-v1-games-systems-no-longer-live-microsofts-pulling-the-p/
You can still play the game, you just can't get on LIVE with it. Honestly, when is the last time you played an XBOX original on LIVE? 3, 4 years ago?]]>Feb 5th 2010 9:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/xbox-v1-games-systems-no-longer-live-microsofts-pulling-the-p/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/xbox-v1-games-systems-no-longer-live-microsofts-pulling-the-p/
The UI for Netflix on the 360 is infinitely better than the UI for Netflix on the PS3.

The original blade interface was a bit odd, but the new card system for NXE is really nice.]]>Feb 5th 2010 10:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/xbox-v1-games-systems-no-longer-live-microsofts-pulling-the-p/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/xbox-v1-games-systems-no-longer-live-microsofts-pulling-the-p/
I would actually disagree with that. I used Netflix on my 360 for a long time. All of a sudden, it started to crawl. It would take 10 minutes to load my queue (not a very big queue either). I would select say, a season of The Office. It would take another 5 minutes to load up the episode list.

I have reinstalled it with no luck.

Switched to the PS3 and never looked back. I prefer the interface and the quality adjustment which happens on the fly and not by interrupting your show or movie.]]>Feb 5th 2010 10:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/xbox-v1-games-systems-no-longer-live-microsofts-pulling-the-p/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/xbox-v1-games-systems-no-longer-live-microsofts-pulling-the-p/Feb 5th 2010 5:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/xbox-v1-games-systems-no-longer-live-microsofts-pulling-the-p/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/xbox-v1-games-systems-no-longer-live-microsofts-pulling-the-p/Feb 5th 2010 5:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/xbox-v1-games-systems-no-longer-live-microsofts-pulling-the-p/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/xbox-v1-games-systems-no-longer-live-microsofts-pulling-the-p/Feb 5th 2010 5:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/xbox-v1-games-systems-no-longer-live-microsofts-pulling-the-p/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/xbox-v1-games-systems-no-longer-live-microsofts-pulling-the-p/
Who's up for Halo 2 every day until they pull the plug?]]>Feb 5th 2010 5:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/xbox-v1-games-systems-no-longer-live-microsofts-pulling-the-p/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/xbox-v1-games-systems-no-longer-live-microsofts-pulling-the-p/
Yo!! For the official FAQ on the breaking news about changes to Original Xbox service, peep this: http://bit.ly/bkWcqK ^MB

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Yo!! For the official FAQ on the breaking news about changes to Original Xbox service, peep this: http://bit.ly/bkWcqK ^MB]]>Feb 5th 2010 5:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/xbox-v1-games-systems-no-longer-live-microsofts-pulling-the-p/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/xbox-v1-games-systems-no-longer-live-microsofts-pulling-the-p/Feb 5th 2010 5:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/xbox-v1-games-systems-no-longer-live-microsofts-pulling-the-p/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/xbox-v1-games-systems-no-longer-live-microsofts-pulling-the-p/
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One of the reasons I picked up a 360 in the first place, was due to the promise of a decent amount of backwards compatibility, including online play.

Though I still cannot play my copy of Marvel v. Capcom 2 without serious animation distortion, and yet they sell a "perfect" version on Xbox Live...but that is for another time.

While I understand there are ways to circumvent these troubling decisions (Ala X Link Kai and XBConnect) that still only solves problems for some of my games I play on XBL.

What kind of terrible world would we be living in without being able to hop into an online match of Phantom Dust?

I don't even want to know...]]>Feb 5th 2010 6:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/xbox-v1-games-systems-no-longer-live-microsofts-pulling-the-p/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/xbox-v1-games-systems-no-longer-live-microsofts-pulling-the-p/Feb 5th 2010 6:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/xbox-v1-games-systems-no-longer-live-microsofts-pulling-the-p/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/xbox-v1-games-systems-no-longer-live-microsofts-pulling-the-p/Feb 5th 2010 6:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/xbox-v1-games-systems-no-longer-live-microsofts-pulling-the-p/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/xbox-v1-games-systems-no-longer-live-microsofts-pulling-the-p/I've had XBLive since it first came out 7 or so years ago. Had to make a new GT cuz I cant recover my old classic one!]]>Feb 5th 2010 9:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/xbox-v1-games-systems-no-longer-live-microsofts-pulling-the-p/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/xbox-v1-games-systems-no-longer-live-microsofts-pulling-the-p/
Contact customer support, you'll have to somehow prove its your account over the phone]]>Feb 5th 2010 7:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/xbox-v1-games-systems-no-longer-live-microsofts-pulling-the-p/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/05/xbox-v1-games-systems-no-longer-live-microsofts-pulling-the-p/So theyll be able reset my password, really? Wait, how long do they put you on hold cuz i hate that shit. you've done this before?]]>Feb 5th 2010 7:40PM