Halo 2 Is Holding Back Your Xbox Live Social Life
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It's an excuse, plain and simple.
To access your friends list, games make a function call to Microsoft's servers. The functions Xbox 1 games use are well known. They can alter those functions server-side to make them limit their actions to 100 friends. Then, they create an all-new set of functions that act on the expanded friends list, and update the 360 to use the new functions instead. (It should be an easy update, if the games make their friends list calls through the 360 OS.)
To access your friends list, games make a function call to Microsoft's servers. The functions Xbox 1 games use are well known. They can alter those functions server-side to make them limit their actions to 100 friends. Then, they create an all-new set of functions that act on the expanded friends list, and update the 360 to use the new functions instead. (It should be an easy update, if the games make their friends list calls through the 360 OS.)
I have about 43 friends, and 25 of them should have been deleted by now. A higher friend's list is just a way of compensating for not having any in real life.
And not everyone who plays Halo 2 doesn't play Halo 3. I was going to buy Halo a few days ago, but they didn't have it. It's still a good game.
And not everyone who plays Halo 2 doesn't play Halo 3. I was going to buy Halo a few days ago, but they didn't have it. It's still a good game.
Well... I actually think that Halo 2 is better than Halo 3, but if I really wanted to play it I would do it on the regular Xbox. Really, 100 friends is enough. Most of my Xbox live friends are never online and I never play with any of them. I think that they should get rid of Halo 2 and keep and the 100 friends cap to be fair.
I for one LOVE halo 2 it is almost superior to halo 3 the only reason it isn't is because i can't find the map packs and i don't want to pay for them again. you don't need 57687608 thousand "friends" anyway. its unreasonable.
Oh I still host halo 2 LAN parties on occasion most fun ever.
Oh I still host halo 2 LAN parties on occasion most fun ever.
I honestly don't care. Personally I like to keep a small amount of friends and really only good friends, maybe it's because I like to see a persons face before I add them to my friends list. I am shocked that Halo 2 is so important to them though, I mean, Halo 3 is the same thing online but with enhancements, so it's clearly superior. The only reason I ever dust off Halo 2 is if I'm bored and want to replay the SP campaign. To be fair, I see why some games linger on the web for a long time, like Doom, but then again Doom > Halo for infinity (And before you flame me, I love Halo, but I've been Dooming since I was in diapers.) plus Doom has more of a mod community, so it's constantly being updated. Plus there's really no game in the series to replace it, since Doom 3's multiplayer was the same as the original Dos version except everyone had tar on their shoes.
Oh well, now I'm ranting.
Oh well, now I'm ranting.
It takes a lot more than a patch to change the architectural framework of a game. Besides, at this point, you're looking at a serious case of "if it ain't broke, don't fix it." If they're going to do it, they may as well wait until they're going to do it right.Utarefson said:
Well, I'm sure people always suspected there was something seriously wrong about the Halo series. Now we know what it was XP
I don't own a 360 (but have an offline original X-Box), have one friend on PSN, and even that person I found on games elsewhere. Until they bring out a decent and acceptable MMORPG or adventure game (ala something like what Uru: Ages Beyond Myst would have been o
for the PS3 (which might be coming sooner rather than later ), I probably won't have more than that... I'm pretty bad at shooters, and only slightly better at RPGs, though those don't usually require one to shoot tons of people in the head >.<
I don't own a 360 (but have an offline original X-Box), have one friend on PSN, and even that person I found on games elsewhere. Until they bring out a decent and acceptable MMORPG or adventure game (ala something like what Uru: Ages Beyond Myst would have been o
for the PS3 (which might be coming sooner rather than later ), I probably won't have more than that... I'm pretty bad at shooters, and only slightly better at RPGs, though those don't usually require one to shoot tons of people in the head >.<
This companies dedication to the fans has brought a tear to my eye...
on third 360...
but seriously kudos.
on third 360...
but seriously kudos.
I play Halo 2 quite regularly, it takes a bit longer to find a game but its still a load better then halo 3.
I only add IRL friends and people i talk to ALL THE TIME on my friends list and im at 50...if you want more friends start deleting the ones you dont EVER talk to and trust me if your at 100 then theres a good 30 of those kind of people on your list.
I only add IRL friends and people i talk to ALL THE TIME on my friends list and im at 50...if you want more friends start deleting the ones you dont EVER talk to and trust me if your at 100 then theres a good 30 of those kind of people on your list.
you mean the shittiest one ever. the entire Halo Series that has been released after November 12 2001 has been crap, as they took and did the entire storyline not relating to the flood, who honestly are the worst race of parasites in a book since those brainslugs (forget their name) from AnimorphsSimalacrum said:
