It’s the end of an era, as January 13 marks the server shutdown date for Halo 3 and other classic, much-loved Xbox 360 Halo games. 343 Industries is “sunsetting” the original Xbox 360 online servers for Halo, Halo 4, Halo: Reach, and other Halo titles as it prioritizes newer games.
While Halo 3 and the others remain playable online through Halo: The Master Chief Collection, the original Xbox 360 servers are now offline for good. Have a look at the chart below, created by 343 and shared online, to see a full accounting for Xbox 360 services going offline. Note that the chart says “December 2021” because this was originally the end-date before it was pushed to January.
Tributes to Halo 3 poured in across social media, and you can see a sampling of some of the responses below. People shared heartfelt messages about what Halo 3 meant to them. The original Halo 3 matchmaking lobby showed a heatmap of where in the world people were connecting from and how many players were online at a given time, and now the lights have gone out and the player population has reached 0. Truly the end of an era.
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