Report: Halo 2 Blamed for Xbox Live 100 Friend Limit
It must be really frustrating to have a cap on your friends list for the Xbox Live. If you want to know the real reason why you can’t have your 101st friend, it’s because of Halo 2. Yes, the Xbox original is still haunting XBL, thanks to the power of its solid community.
It must be really frustrating to have a cap on your friends list for the Xbox Live. If you want to know the real reason why you can’t have your 101st friend, it’s because of Halo 2. Yes, the Xbox original is still haunting XBL, thanks to the power of its solid community.
According to G4TV, because Halo 2 fans are still at it in the original XBL, Microsoft just can’t go and upgrade the friends cap for the new XBL. Not getting the connection? Here’s the thing: the original XBL really can’t handle having more than 100 friends; it just wasn’t built that way. The new XBL can, though. The “technical obstacle” that Microsoft was referring to when they explained why the new XBL is capped at 100 friends would actually be Halo 2.
For them to up the friends cap on the new XBL, Microsoft would have to ditch support for Halo 2 online. And seeing how popular the game remains to be, it’s just bad business call to dump something that many people are obviously enjoying, and thereby raking in profits for the company. Why not just release a patch for it? Well it’s not that simple either, cos if it were the only problem, MS would have most likely released one already.
G4TV’s insider source also said that there is no definite time as to when MS will disable support for Halo 2, but it could probably happen after the release of Halo 3: ODST. If you want to expedite and ensure this, however, you need to voice out what you want.
I sense an Online Petition coming on then. At least now you know what’s the real reason for the cap, and knowing is always half the battle.
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