This Week’s WTF? Bungie Will Punish Online Quitters

With their Halo Reach being their biggest game release ever, and a marketing push that makes Halo 3 look like posters on telephone poles, a quitter penalty is not something you necessarily want to read about two months before release. Hopefully we’ll get some more clarification on the issue and it will all make sense.

Xbox Live 1.0 — R.I.P

You’ll still be able to play the games offline so it’s not like they won’t work. And honestly people are you really that stuck to Halo 2 since there’s been 2 games to come out since then and a new one on the way. Let go people.

Old Xbox Games Say Goodbye to Online Play — People Are Still Playing Those?

ooking at the the current games in the XBL on demand library you’ll see that most of their downloadable old (Xbox 1) games are primarily games that were single player hits. So essentially for this online gaming element, we’re talking about folks who have some semblance of a videogame library and still own some of these original box titles. As to how big of a market that is 5 years into the 360′s existence, who knows?

From a customer reputation standpoint they may lose favor with those old school gamers but it looks like Microsoft feels fairly secure that they’re not going to irk that many folks with this decision and they’re still giving them a few months to relive the old game glory days before pulling the plug.

Flashback — The Original Xbox

So what did Microsoft’s first Xbox have to offer other than Halo? Well first and foremost it didn’t have hardware failures like it’s future offspring. This was a hardy machine. As far as gaming though that first year was kind of sketchy.In addition fighting the fight against the covenant early offerings included, Dead or Alive 3, Amped: Freestyle Snowboarding, Fuzion Frenzy and Project Gotham Racing.