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    Image of dh4645 dh4645
    08/11/09

    In reply to Report: Halo 2 Is Holding Back Your Xbox Live Friends List
    you do not need that many friends. it would be so annoying thinking you are getting achievements every minute when people log in...
    did m$ change that sound yet? having the friends log in sound and the achievement sound the same is stupid.
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    08/11/09

    @dh4645: Oh god, I never though about that.
    That would be incredibly annoying.
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    Image of jgibson75 jgibson75
    08/10/09

    In reply to Report: Halo 2 Is Holding Back Your Xbox Live Friends List
    I don't have near that many friends... once I reach about 30 I start purging to clean it up to a more controllable number. lol.
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    Image of RockyRan RockyRan
    08/10/09

    In reply to Report: Halo 2 Is Holding Back Your Xbox Live Friends List
    100 friends is way more than enough. This isn't Facebook, people. There's just no way that you can actively be gaming with 100 people frequently enough that they should all be in your list, let alone have a need for MORE than 100.
    Drop some dead weight if you capped your list, because if you did cap your list you DO have some dead weight, trust me.
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    08/10/09

    In reply to Report: Halo 2 Is Holding Back Your Xbox Live Friends List
    I make a bunch of fake Silver accounts on my Xbox and then "friend" them to make me look more popular.
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    08/10/09


    @Numerous: thats pretty interesting lol
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    Image of RoccoWoodcock RoccoWoodcock
    08/10/09

    In reply to Report: Halo 2 Is Holding Back Your Xbox Live Friends List
    To me the 100 user limit on friends is sort of like high school, in that you meet them in a common place, with xbox live it's a popular game. Then you spend a lot of time together gaming and doing other things. After while you graduate to a new game but you say that you will still keep in contact with each other as you head off into different paths. And if you should decide to delete some friends from your list and lost contact with them, you might get some questions on why you haven't contacted them and don't recognize them at the every 10 year class of whatever reunion you happen to go to. Although I think people on the Xbox Live have reunions every two years, each times a
    Halo, Call of Duty, Gears of War, and etc comes out. Oh, the joys of these awkward moments that everyone who has 100 friends must go through.
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    Image of (Human) Gyaruson (Human) Gyaruson
    08/10/09

    In reply to Report: Halo 2 Is Holding Back Your Xbox Live Friends List
    Meh, not really a big deal for me as I sat at around 15 friends for the longest time until recently when I started playing L4D online with people I didn't know. Hopefully I don't ever meet more than 85 people through L4D, though...
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    Image of seishino seishino
    08/10/09

    In reply to Report: Halo 2 Is Holding Back Your Xbox Live Friends List
    Why not bank swap? Have your 100 people that Live1 can see, and use Live 2 to swap in / out of that list any other number of other friends.
    Alternatively, remake Halo 2 as a full 360 title. They would make bank, and satisfy the players who feel that Halo 2 is somehow superior to Halo 3 from a multiplayer perspective.
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    Image of robinandtami robinandtami
    08/10/09

    In reply to Report: Halo 2 Is Holding Back Your Xbox Live Friends List
    I have 100 friends.... but I'll admit that half of them I just hang on to for sentimentality's sake.

    It seems like every time I get into a new multiplayer game I pick up a new group of friends that I play THAT game with regularly. Then when I quit playing that game... I have a hard time deleting those people because I really enjoyed that time with them and I MIGHT play something else with them in the future.

    My Perfect Dark Zero and GRAW 2 crews are long gone. My Gears of War crew comes next. Sorry guys.... nothing personal.... I promise!
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    Image of IvanDashSmith IvanDashSmith
    08/10/09

    In reply to Report: Halo 2 Is Holding Back Your Xbox Live Friends List
    Dear M$,
    Create an update which raises the cap on the number of friends in Halo 2.
    You're welcome,
    -Me
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    Image of Jimbodawg Jimbodawg
    08/10/09

    @IvanDashSmith:
    If you read the article on G4, you'd know that your suggestion isn't possible.
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    IvanDashSmith promoted this comment SuperSonik approved this comment Jimbodawg was starred Jimbodawg was unstarred
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    08/10/09

    @IvanDashSmith: I guess a few get through the cracks, eh?
    Listen to the new poster below. You can't just change the old xbox live architecture in any cost-effective way.
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    Image of IvanDashSmith IvanDashSmith
    08/10/09

    @Jimbodawg: I didn't read the article before, but all they say is that it isn't as simple as a patch. But this isn't hardware architecture, it is the software's interaction with it.
    Programmers always say there is no way to do something, until they sit down and find a way to do it. I'm sure someone could find a way if given the resources.
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    Image of Jimbodawg Jimbodawg
    08/12/09

    @IvanDashSmith:
    But then you have to realize they're spending all of their time to go back to older games, when they could be preparing us for future titles with way more functionality.
    Although, I do wish they keep support for Halo 2 forever and ever. I love that game! =)
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    Image of ShaSt One ShaSt One
    08/10/09

    In reply to Report: Halo 2 Is Holding Back Your Xbox Live Friends List
    So when do you think they'll pull the plug on Halo2?
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    Image of Archaotic Archaotic
    08/10/09

    @PuppyGuarder: Considering 10,000 people played it last night? Not for a while. That's more than most modern games get.
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    Edited by Archaotic at 08/10/09 2:35 PM Archaotic was starred Archaotic was unstarred
    Image of Bialia Bialia
    08/10/09

    In reply to Report: Halo 2 Is Holding Back Your Xbox Live Friends List
    So, I read that as "Crecente and his mom. She always lets me win."
    And I thought, wow, that seemed like a rather harsh burn. LOL.


    Are the people still playing this game playing it on their original Xbox consoles or their 360s? Can you even connect to live in its current state on the original Xbox? How does that work?
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    Edited by Bialia at 08/10/09 2:30 PM Bialia was starred Bialia was unstarred
    Image of The SmacK The SmacK
    08/10/09

    @bialia:
    Yeah, the original xbox still works fine. You just recover your gamertag on the old system and you can use xbox live.

    Oh and it looks the old school way...you don't have all the fancy features of the 360.
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    bialia promoted this comment Edited by The SmacK at 08/10/09 2:36 PM The SmacK was starred The SmacK was unstarred
    Image of Yonderboy Yonderboy
    08/10/09

    In reply to Report: Halo 2 Is Holding Back Your Xbox Live Friends List
    How else are you going to find true love? We gibbed each other from across a crowded room, she joined my friends list, and then joined my life.
    Okay, not really, but a 13 year old once called me an, "Ass goblin," which made me laugh.
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    Image of The_Foo The_Foo
    08/10/09

    In reply to Report: Halo 2 Is Holding Back Your Xbox Live Friends List
    I have six friends and I hate them all with the fiery passion of unrequited homosexual love.
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    Image of Miksho Miksho
    08/10/09

    @The_Foo: We should be friends.
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    Image of Dr.Peace Dr.Peace
    08/10/09

    In reply to Report: Halo 2 Is Holding Back Your Xbox Live Friends List
    Alas, Xbox Live's leash is still held by homophobic 13-year-old boys.
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    Image of GraywolfofMibu GraywolfofMibu
    08/10/09

    @Dr.Peace: They will never age past 13 sadly.
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    Image of TookieWhy TookieWhy
    08/10/09

    @Dr.Peace: I've only come across 25 five year old homophobic douchetards and 10 year old homo-oblivious kids.
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    Image of starscar.exe starscar.exe
    08/10/09

    @TookiGuy: I agree. That's what's really holding the friends list back.
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    Image of n00b_pwner n00b_pwner
    08/10/09

    In reply to Report: Halo 2 Is Holding Back Your Xbox Live Friends List
    Is it possible to update an Original Xbox Title to fix this problem?
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    08/10/09

    @n00b_pwner: It probably is, but they would have to actually try. and MS makes Next to no money off of Xbox Originals so.... i wouldn't count on it.
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    Image of n00b_pwner n00b_pwner
    08/10/09

    @-Skyline-: Yes, but then this isn't to "improve" Halo 2. This is to "improve" Xbox Live.
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    08/10/09

    @n00b_pwner: They would have to re-do the complete online architecture of Xbox Live. People still play Halo 2 on the Xbox 1...
    MS doesn't care enough nor do they need to.
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