r/xbox • u/TheLaraSuChronicles • 20h ago

News Over 25 years of classic Halo content has leaked online

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/over-25-years-of-classic-halo-content-has-leaked-online/
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u/Free_Joty 18h ago

Sad to see digsite team is dead

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u/deadpatronus 17h ago

Were it so easy

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u/lance- 17h ago edited 14h ago

Ahh man. I remember OG Halo before Xbox Live. Hooked our OG Xboxes up to our PCs and ran GameSpy to play online over dial-up. Great times.

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u/oo0Sevenfold0oo 14h ago

Man I miss gamespy! Met so many amazing people in the game lobbies when looking for servers. Was sad when it died, so many games died after the servers closed

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u/lance- 14h ago

Remember using the OG pistol with full one-second+ bullet lag?

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u/MasterArCtiK 14h ago

You can play through gamespy on an Xbox one?

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u/lance- 14h ago

I meant the OG Xbox. This was back in 2002 or so. You installed GameSpy on your PC, then hooked your Xbox up to the PC.

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u/[deleted] 6h ago

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u/lance- 5h ago

That came at a later time, I believe. We were using GameSpy Arcade and GameSpy Tunnel.

https://www.xbox-hq.com/html/modules.php?name=Xbox_Homebrew&op=view&gid=333&title=Gamespy+tunnel

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u/TwoDevTheHero 5h ago

I stand corrected!

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u/lance- 5h ago

No worries. I had totally forgotten about XBconnect until you mentioned it, from what I remember that was much more stable.

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u/Toast-Ghost- 18h ago

This is incredibly cool

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u/MrWhiteflame 3h ago

Was it worth destroying an entire community built trust and losing the entire digsite team to do it?

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u/Toast-Ghost- 3h ago

I’m not sure exactly what you mean but if it’s the general Halo community it’s been dead since Infinite

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u/MrWhiteflame 3h ago

Digsite was the team responsible for getting a large amount of community creations and mods done for MCC through first party support. Because a member of that team decided to leak this, the company is killing the initiative.

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u/Toast-Ghost- 3h ago

Considering I’d never heard anything about this before I’m gonna say yes for me personally

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u/MrWhiteflame 3h ago

So it’s good that the community will never have access to first party tools for modding ever again got it

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u/Toast-Ghost- 3h ago

I never said that it was good but if the only thing of note to come from it is this leak then how bad can it be?

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u/MrWhiteflame 3h ago

This team is the reason the original E3 Halo 2 mission was restored and released. But glad you got to skim over fun facts so an entire community is worse off

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u/Toast-Ghost- 3h ago

See I didn’t even know that happened so Halo needs a better PR person also what community 99% people dropped Halo after they failed with Infinite

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u/Ahirman1 3h ago edited 3h ago

Digsite was probably going to fall apart anyways since that team was doing all the work they did without getting paid

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u/MrWhiteflame 3h ago

We wouldn’t have the original E3 Halo 2 mission without them

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u/Ahirman1 3h ago

Yeah and? They can’t exactly keep doing work without being compensated for it. They have rent, food and other expenses to cover. Especially since it was community people and not people properly employed by 343/Halo Studios

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u/MrWhiteflame 3h ago

So glad you’re speaking for them. Shutting down an entire team won’t make it a job for them, and only took opportunities away.

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u/Ahirman1 3h ago

No I’m referencing tweets made by former members who left cause they couldn’t justify doing what Halo Studios wanted from them and be able to live

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u/MrWhiteflame 24m ago

Got it so because those members had a problem all other people shouldn’t have the opportunity? I’m so confused by your logic thinking this is a good thing

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u/Annui83 16h ago

Dang that's cool. Definitely remember reading about this in MacAddict or MacWorld magazine back in the day.