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The Final Moments Of Halo 3 Online, 2007 - 2022 - Kotaku
Jan 14, 2022 1 min, 13 secs
On Thursday, Microsoft and 343 Industries turned off all the matchmaking servers for classic games Halo 3, Halo 3: ODST, Halo Reach, and Halo 4.

And while you can still play versions of these games online via the fantastic Master Chief Collection, many players took time in the final days before January 13 to log on and mourn the end of the original games’ online multiplayer.

Now that the date is here, over the last week or so, many players have dusted off their Xbox 360s and hopped back onto Halo 3 and Halo Reach, to join others in saying goodbye to some of the best multiplayer games ever made.

Other players helped folks unlock the “Maybe Next Time, Buddy” award which is unlocked after you steal a vehicle back from someone in less than 10 seconds, which can be tricky to get normally.

Players across Reddit and YouTube shared videos of the moments right as the servers gave up the ghost.

But with the servers officially dead, for the first time since Halo 3 was released in 2007, all the lights were gone.

Watching players come together to celebrate the end of Halo 3’s servers has been oddly touching.

I spent so much time in Halo Reach and older games, but none of them (not even the recent and very good Infinite) ever captured the same feeling of Halo 3.

Servers were full of community-created modes and maps—like the wild and crazy “Speed Halo” in Reach or custom parkour and race map in Halo 3.

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