The Halo saga has made us live great moments with some of its games that were published at the time on Xbox 360 . However, as they say, nothing lasts forever and that is what will happen to the online functions of all the titles that were published on the aforementioned Microsoft desktop console.
343 Industries has reported that it has made the decision to cease online services for all Halo games on Xbox 360 , something that will take effect by the end of 2021 at the latest, so you still have a year ahead of you to take advantage of them if you wish.
Exactly the titles that will be affected will be a total of seven and are the following: Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary, Halo: Spartan Assault, Halo Wars, Halo 3, Halo 3: ODST, Halo: Reach and Halo 4. That does not mean that You can continue playing them as long as you want , because the rest of the functions or game modes, such as campaigns, will continue to be available.
The reason for this situation is because 343 Industries believes that maintaining the services of all these games requires a large amount of work time and resources that the company prefers to allocate to the future of the franchise. In addition, he has commented that the use of these services does not stop decreasing every month and fewer and fewer people invest their time in the online modes of all these games.
So that no one will forget, during the next few months you will be remembering this decision through the different Halo channels. Likewise, it will no longer be possible to purchase any of the Halo games on Xbox 360 in digital format, which does not mean that you can download them whenever you want if you already have a copy of any of them.
In the same way, this also affects the backward compatible versions of Xbox One, Xbox Series S and Xbox Series X. However, Halo: The Master Chief Collection will get rid of this situation, so in the future you will have to resort to this compilation If you want to access the online functions of all the games previously indicated.
