That's lame. Playstation doesn't do this stuff. Why xbox?

I heard about this a little while back, and I still think it's a big mistake.

Never have I ever heard of a videogame company stabbing their customers in the back more than XBOX has. They don't understand the importance of things like backwards compatability or game replay value.

The original XBOX has been raped of all it's games. XBOX game? Sorry. You have to play that on the original XBOX. That's right. Pull it out of the closet, hook the beast up. Perfect. Let's play some frickin' Armageddon. I've already beat the entire game, unlocked every character, completed absolutely everything there is to do, and all I want to do is play some multiplayer. With people having such busy lives, it's difficult to get everyone together to play. Let's hook up with other fans around the world and play with them! Oh wait... XBOX Live no longer exists for this game.

At least I can still use it as a $60.00 coaster.

That sucks so much, I guess this lack of support for original Xbox games means we won't see Deadly Alliance or Shaolin Monks backwards compatible anytime soon either.

I can never get a match on MKD so I'm not bothered but I can understand why other people would find it suckass.

And to think i was going to finally look forward to x-box live till this happens.

Wow, Irene4! Long time no see.

From what i understand it's only online play (not sure about system link). Games will still work normally.

Also from what I understand it's because supporting original Xbox Live online play is actually hindering them from implementing certain features to the Xbox Live service. or at least that's what MS is saying why they are choosing to drop support.

I personally think it's it's a bad move. MK games aside halo 2 is still 1 of the top played games on the service, it;s just stupid of them to drop supprt and risk pissing off a huge following. Plus MS made such a huge deal about Halo 1 & 2 being BC when they released the 360. but I guess we'll just have to wait and see what kind of upgrades MS was referring to as being hindered by having original Xbox Live support.

Halo 1 isn't affected at all, since it never had online play on XB.

No big deal, hardly anyone played these games on XBoxlive to begin with. Keeping all the virtual graveyards open is pretty pointless for MS and the best thing to do is drop support for the original Xboxlive.

The last gen MK games need a boost to get people interested again, maybe if they re-released MKA in the PSN and XBL store with tag battle or something people will jump back in.