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

[Phopojijo]

^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.

Any proprietary game platform... at all. Like I was saying, videogames is being ushered into the broadcast model.

(As I said on the OnLiveFans forum, who are remarkably mature with this issue...)

OnLive's purpose is videogames as consumable entertainment. You purchase a game that satisfies a certain type of entertainment that you wish... you get bored of it... you get a new game that satisfies a (slightly/wholly) different type of entertainment that you wish... and eventually the old stuff goes away to make room for the new. You keep new experiences, OnLive makes commission, and it couldn't be any easier for you.

But if you expect videogames through OnLive to be a portion of our culture and to have artistic qualities -- you're fooling yourself. The fear of being kicked off the market will only promote developers to make consumable hot-sellers for 2 weeks that have a 2-year long tail then disappear. You will not get cultural-impacting content off that business model... especially not before videogames reach that stage as a medium itself.

Convenient entertainment, not culture-impacting art.

[Cortexian]

I've been using the XLink Kai network for ages anyhow...

[DeeX]

Oh, that's on my birthday.

[Phopojijo]

Oh, that's on my birthday.

Congratulations -- Halo 2 for your birthday...

heh... heh...

[Kornman00]

What the hell, they've already closed down the DLC lists for all the Xbox 1 games? I can't pull up anything for Halo 2 or my Splinter Cell games :|. There are still over 60 days left!

[=sw=warlord]

What the hell, they've already closed down the DLC lists for all the Xbox 1 games? I can't pull up anything for Halo 2 or my Splinter Cell games :|. There are still over 60 days left!

For splintercell i can understand but with Halo 2 that's why you get the map pack on DVD.

[Kornman00]

I wanted to download all the Xbox 1 game that I have and their DLC to a 60gb hdd since it's all going away

but nooooooooooooooooooooo :|

I have the map packs downloaded already, but still...I have all these Xbox 1 games, fuck you MS, I got something for your ass >:|

[English Mobster]

I just found my old H2 disc yesterday when I was looking for a DS game (damn those small carts...). Looks like I'll be participating in the going-away festivities.

[TeeKup]

Kinda saddened really...good thing I downloaded that KoTOR DLC when I first got live...heh.

[Kornman00]

Kinda saddened really...good thing I downloaded that KoTOR DLC when I first got live...heh.

Wait...

KOTOR DLC?

Ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff T_T