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Lots of people continued playing Halo 2 past the midnight deadline Microsoft gave 12 days ago for discontinuing original Xbox multiplayer support. Fourteen have managed to still keep their consoles connected and running since, prolonging the game's final goodbye indefinitely.

Console overheating concerns and dropped Internet connections have whittled their numbers, but so far, neither Microsoft nor Bungie has gone in and turned off the lights. Writes Joe Campbell, who started a thread on the sit-in/tribute on the Bungie forums:

We will keep playing until we are all forcibly removed. It could be by Microsoft, Bungie, our Xbox's overheating, or just lagging out. Not for competition, not for a prize, but for the love, and memory of Halo 2.

I want to thank everyone that I've played with in the past few days, this is by far my favorite memory in all my gaming history.

A few live streams have captured several hours of footage of the Halo gamers playing long past the bell.

As of writing, the final 14 are: Agent Windex, APACHE N4SIR, sherlok 1, SieferSword, Rob2D, Detenn, z0mbie stench, Lord Odysseus11, xxMAKDADYxx, H2o Shoagie, xxBooker Dxx, DirtyCajun, AForeignObject and HiredN00bs.

http://kotaku.com/5525837/fourteen-halo ... let-it-die

Throughout the past week, a small group of dedicated Halo 2 players kept their xboxes on so that they could enjoy the game for a while long. (As long as we don't turn off our xboxes, or lose connection, we can stay online. Our xboxes have been on for nearly 19 days straight!) Each day the amount of people decreased, at a rapid rate.

A lot of us became really good friends, and it's almost like we're a small family now.
For a while, we had 'T0 Be Continued' Live streaming all of our games, until her xbox regrettably froze while playing custom games. Then, 'Mr7ankjump' did a live stream, but he lagged out only 4 hours later. 'Z0mbie Stench' was doing a live stream every day after those 2 lagged out, but sadly she was kicked off today because of connection trouble. XXBooker DXX was the final live streamer, but he's gone now, too.

We will keep playing until we are all forcibly removed, it could be by Microsoft, Bungie, our xboxes overheating, or just lagging out. Not for competition, not for a prize, but for the love, and memory of Halo 2.

I would like to thank everyone that I have been playing with the last 2 weeks. I would also like to thank everyone who has been following this story, and supporting us, you guys are awesome. Also, I would like to thank Gamesradar.com for giving out Beta Codes to the final 12 players.

Right now there are only 5 players on line, here is a list of our names:
Agent Windex
Apache N4Sir
Lord Odysseus11
XXMAKDADYXX
Dirtycajun

I will keep this list updated, until it is down to 0.

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[Edited on 05.03.2010 9:28 PM PDT]

http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx ... eater1-p=1

The end has finally come and Halo 2 is dead!

Shortly before 11 p.m. PDT, May 10, 2010, Apache N4SIR left Halo 2. He says he was booted from the game. This is the end of multiplayer on Halo 2 and the original Xbox Live.