Xbox live for original Xbox games to be discontinued april 15th.

[p0lar_bear]

You will be able to find other people like you should, and you will be able to join their games, but if the ping is greater than 30 ms, you will be booted from the game.

I see what you mean, and that makes sense; why would a LAN ever go over 30ms?

[t3h m00kz]

Fucking Microsoft

XBC is gonna be hella popular, lol

[Phopojijo]

This is why closed, proprietary platforms (DRM'd... maybe even Windows... PC games included) will destroy any chance that videogames has of becoming a legitimate art medium.

You can't have culture without longevity.

[Heathen]

depends if the update will even allow you to play original games on the xbox, their planing on changing alot of resources for the xb360 so it maybe possibly you won't even beable to play original games.
I know this is just the servers but what the message said is the new updates wont allow backwards compatibility so anything is possible i guess.

I will throw away my xbox.

the average live user (12 year old) will never be able to figure out.

...and the problem with that is?

It might work for original games, like I said I was uncertain of.

However, it does NOT work for native 360 games. Well, it does...but it doesn't.

You will be able to find other people like you should, and you will be able to join their games, but if the ping is greater than 30 ms, you will be booted from the game.

Well why would you use XBConnect if not to play the old XBox Originals that now have live discontinued. Why would you use it on 360 games where live is still supported?

[Dwood]

So you don't have to pay for XBL, that's why. I refuse to pay to play online games.

[Heathen]

Lol! 14 cents a day is WAY TOO MUCH.

7 dollars a month jesus christ thats alot.

[flibitijibibo]

Lol! 14 cents a day is WAY TOO MUCH.

7 dollars a month jesus christ thats alot.

College, man. Makes you broke as fuck.

It was a good day when GFWL gold became free.

[Heathen]

Yeh, I could see that, but shiiiit. You can even just get the $8 a month and play only when you have down time.

[Advancebo]

12 month's of service is always being discounted on the Dashboard now, I think I saw it like 13 months for 34.99 a few weeks ago. Anyway, if they need to get rid of Xbox live for the older games to further develop the service, fine by me, even though it does suck for anyone who wants to play Halo 2.

[Bodzilla]

^somehow i dont think thats the soul reason they are doing it.

smooth moves, and yes this makes me worried about any of these online game stores.