There, a member of the development team wrote “Over the past six months, our colleagues from Microsoft failed to make decisions on the future of the project,” adding that it’s become clear “the current form of the game will not be released.” The cancellation announcement was made on the official Halo Online page on VK, the Russian social network. The game seems to have never gained much popularity, and Microsoft had all but abandoned it for the last six months. It was based on the engine from Halo 3, and only consisted of multiplayer gameplay, while microtransactions allowed players to buy armor and weapon customizations with real money. Last year, the blog explained that maintaining these services requires “significant time and resources,” which then impacts the studio’s ability to support current and new games like Halo: The Master Chief Collection and Halo Infinite, which launches in December.Along with Microsoft, Halo Online was the work of developer Saber Interactive (which worked on Halo: The Master Chief Collection) and Russian publisher Innova Systems. Note: The versions of these games in Halo: The Master Chief Collection for Xbox and Windows PC are unaffected those have all been rebuilt and remastered to use different modernized services. Players can check out the old post to get a full chart that breaks down what services are and aren’t impacted by the closure by title. Players who own these titles will still be able to play them, but some “experiences and functionality will be reduced or removed,” the blog said. The service impacts following Xbox 360 titles: Halo: Reach, Halo 4, Halo 3, Halo 3: ODST, Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary, Spartan Assault, and Halo Wars. The date comes after an announcement, made nearly a year ago, outlining the developers’ plan to gradually phase out services for the older games. The Halo Xbox 360 legacy services will be turned off on Jan. Monday, developers at 343 Industries updated an earlier blog post to specify when online functionality for the original games will end. At least with the original Halo games for the Xbox 360 games that is. Well, the time has come for Cortana to cease communications.
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