Back in 2015, Microsoft announced a F2P multiplayer version of Halo for the PC, called Halo Online. Halo Online was powered by a reworked version of the Halo 3 Engine, and was meant to be released first in Russia. However, it appears that Halo Online will never get officially released.
As the Halo Online team revealed on the game’s Russian VK social media page, Microsoft has not made any decision on the future of this project for over six months. And as a result of that, the team decided to stop working on it, and announced that the current form of Halo Online will not be released.
Halo Online was built from the ground up specifically for the PC, and was said to be a learning opportunity for Microsoft as it explore ways to welcome new fans to the “Halo” universe.
For what is worth, PC gamers can still enjoy Halo Online thanks to ElDewrito.
Still, it’s kind of disappointing that there won’t be an official version of Halo Online!
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I mean let’s be honest here, the El Dewrito version is better anyway.
amen brother!!!
after you posted that i went and played a few hours of eldewrito…i hope that doesnt disappear too 🙁
Eh, MS could send the devs a cease and desist, but considering it is already a torrent it probable will never go away.
LMFAO, you can bet your a*s they’ll cancel the Windows Store soon enough too.
That would make no sense at all to do.
It would make a lot of sense to shut down that walled garden nonsense noone wants to use. If they had had any success with it so far they’d be boasting about the numbers. They don’t have good numbers. GFWL 2.0 is a failure, just like GFWL.
The point of UWP is to help developers port their games to Windows more easily. UWP is part of the reason why Xbox Anywhere exists. Therefore it isn’t a failure. Without UWP we would be stuck without the chance of getting xbox exclusives on PC.
How else are they going to offer UWP games if Steam doesn’t support them?
How exactly is the closed store that ensures noone will buy your game HELPING developers of MS exclusive games? I don’t care about “Xbox Anywhere”, sounds like console gaming to me, not relevant, this is a PC site.
The strategy is failing. There’s no way they would have allowed Remedy to bring Quantum Break to Steam if it had sold decently in the GFWL 2.0 store. But it didn’t and observing Quantum Break withering away and dying would have deterred other devs to make the same deal with MS so MS is basically already giving up on GFWL 2.0 right now. If there’s a Steam version coming then even the few fools who bought things on the GFWL 2.0 store will wise up and wait for a Steam version. gg no re, I wouldn’t be surprised if the store is shut down this year, betting on next year though.
“How exactly is the closed store that ensures noone will buy your game HELPING developers of MS exclusive games?”
I never said a closed store is helping. UWP is helping. Microsoft can’t do anything about valve not supporting UWP games in their store.
“I don’t care about “Xbox Anywhere”, sounds like console gaming to me, not relevant, this is a PC site.”
Xbox Anyway = Xbox Exclusives on PC. Maybe you should read up on it if you really are a PC gamer.
“There’s no way they would have allowed Remedy to bring Quantum Break to Steam if it had sold decently in the GFWL 2.0 store. ”
They have already said they are more than happy if developers want to put their games on Steam and that was said before QB on Steam was revealed.
And yet, not a single Microsoft-owned IP has made its way to Steam, as of the advent of UWP……..
Huh. Almost as if, they don’t actually want their precious UWP exclusives going to Steam, but they don’t have a choice in the matter since the games otherwise sell like utter dogsh*t.
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Quantum Break is coming to Steam and so has ori and the blind forest definitive edition.
“Microsoft-owned IP” Note my words, note what I specifically indicated.
Quantum Break is funded by Microsoft, & they have the publishing rights to it, but they don’t own Remedy, the actual developers themselves, so it’s not a Gears of War or Halo situation. As for Ori, it was on Steam long before it ever came to UWP anyway, so, yeah, big deal. Big loss…..
Timed exclusivity =/= IP property rights, just as publishing rights in exchange for funding =/= IP ownership.
Gears, Halo, Forza, Fable, etc. are Microsoft-owned IP’s which will never again touch Steam so long as Microtard is pushing UWP.
By doing Win32 ports instead, like everyone else in the entire world?
> Win32 port
> Easy porting and using advantages that uwp has for developers.
Pick one. Developers can’t have both.
“Easy porting”?
“Advantages”?
What?
What advantages are there to losing [possibly even more than] half your customer-base by locking yourself into Windows 10 exclusivity? What advantages are there to turning off your customer base even further by expecting them to not only use Microsoft Spyware 10, but also yet another digital distribution platform + library that’s completely separate from the Steam Library they’ve been building up for the last who-the-f*ck-even-knows-how-many years?
“Easy porting” – & here I thought only Bots & Fanboys bought into Microsoft propaganda these days. Hell, even DX12 isn’t as direct a porting affair as the Microshits would have us believe, but hey, “easy porting”, right? Because being cheap is always good!
F*ck doing things right! Doing them cheap is best!
Please go read what UWP does for developers. I suggest starting on the windows dev center website. You seem quite ignorant.
As Turn10 said during the Apex reveal UWP lets them write code once and have their game run on many devices. Less development time
I’m aware of what UWP does, & really, in regards to “standard” programs in general, it might actually end up being a good thing due to the uniformity it’s creating, if nothing else.
For games, however, it’s an extremely dangerous cesspool of arbitrary “Microsoft is no longer supporting this feature.”
You forget, Microsoft controls updates on Windows 10, so there’s nothing that’s stopping them from pushing through any kind of coding changes they want, at any time they want. Likewise, UWP is a walled garden that kowtows to the whims & fancies of Microsoft, one of the most untrustworthy & anti-consumer companies in the world.
I suggest you google “Embrace, extend and extinguish” & read up on historic Microsoft strategies for monopolising markets. You seem quite ignorant.
LOL they never shut down Windows Store which is integral part of Windows 10 and Xbox One. But is far more likely that someday Steam will be shut down under windows and will be available only on Steam Machines because Valve SEO hate windows.
Say, do Bots dream of electric sheep?
When pigs fly. Valve will hopefully keep pushing for Linux gaming, but getting rid of Windows is not viable, virtually all gamers aren’t going to switch to Linux just because it’s POSSIBLE to play games on it all of a sudden. People in general aren’t going to abandon their catalog of Windows software for slightly better performance and a more secure and performant OS.
The Windows Store is an integral part of Windows 10? Do you personally know anyone who has bought anything on that store? Name one thing that I would ever want to buy on that store. Just because they would like it to be integral doesn’t mean it is.
Aren’t they just replacing this with that Halo Forge game anyways.
no halo forge is from halo 5, theyre only bringing over custom games and obviously forge mode. Halo online was the multiplayer matchmaking, ranked, etc from a modified halo 3 that a lot of us enjoy buuuuuut eldewrito has done way more in a year than microsoft corporate monkeys have so this honestly doesnt have a huge effect on us as long as eldewrito keeps going
Halo 3, Halo 5 same thing.
Now, that’s more like it.
I really don’t think anyone asked for a multiplayer-only Halo game on PC.
change of plan? they are going back to consoles again perhaps. microsoft is really undecided
MS= Amateurs.
Was bound to happen sooner or later.
“all i said was that this was at least SOMETHING good they were doing for the PC/Halo crowd”
Since no one asked for it, I don’t know if that can be considered as “good” for the PC Halo crowd. Waste of resources in my opinion. Of course, it “might” have turned into something that everyone wanted if MS actually went ahead and got behind it entirely like they did with the usual Halo games. Nevertheless, the actual Halo games on PC would be the ideal thing. But that would probably hit MS’s Xbox sales, so…
Most importantly of all it should actually release on PC, not their inane walled garden storefront that no gamer will touch with a ten foot pole.
Nope, he’s not 😛
Not current form, f*ck the outdated collection they’ve got now. Wait for the new one next year, designed specifically for the Scorpio & featuring the all-new Halo 3 Anniversary Cut.
Otherwise, agreed. Nice to see Reach mentioned, so many people forget about it ^^
As for the 343 games though – meh, take/leave. Way too much drama anyway IMO.
I’m not I just get really busy around the summer time and have less DSOG time :/ I’ve been here for a little bit.