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    Halo Wars

    Game » consists of 14 releases. Released Feb 26, 2009

    Halo Wars is a real-time strategy game for the Xbox 360. Join the Halo Wars crew on the UNSC ship CFV-88 Spirit of Fire and engage the Covenant head-on in an attempt to hold on to the recently taken human colony of Harvest. All Units!

    Halo Wars Stat-Tracking, Official Website Gone Dec. 15

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    Edited By BradNicholson
    Microsoft is preparing to cut the cord on its support for Halo Wars. The Halo Wars official website is being taken offline this December 15, and the game's stat-tracking will go down alongside it, a Halo Wars spokesperson confirmed on the game's message board. A fifth, and presumably last, title update for the RTS will seal the deal, as it strips leaderboard functionality from the game (and fixes a theatre bug, too). 

    The few people who still want to talk Halo Wars, however, will be given an option to do so elsewhere in an "official" environment. On the cut-off date, Microsoft will be "transitioning" the Halo Wars forums to Halo Waypoint's forums, which are "a lot less chaotic" than the Halo Wars boards. No posts or previous threads will make it to the new home.
     

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    Sour fans and community members will earn a bauble for their sign-up troubles if they choose to follow the conversation to the Halo Waypoint boards, the post reads. A special HaloWars.com forum avatar for use on Halo Waypoint will be offered to those who PM their new user names to this guy.  
     
    Just to be perfectly clear, Halo Wars multiplayer will continue to stay online and playable. This title update only removes the game's stat-tracking. You'll be able to continue to play the game online for, you know, funsies before and after this all goes down in December.

    Halo Wars debuted on February 26, 2009. It was the last game created by Ensemble Studios, the original creators of Age of Empires
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    #1  Edited By BradNicholson
    Microsoft is preparing to cut the cord on its support for Halo Wars. The Halo Wars official website is being taken offline this December 15, and the game's stat-tracking will go down alongside it, a Halo Wars spokesperson confirmed on the game's message board. A fifth, and presumably last, title update for the RTS will seal the deal, as it strips leaderboard functionality from the game (and fixes a theatre bug, too). 

    The few people who still want to talk Halo Wars, however, will be given an option to do so elsewhere in an "official" environment. On the cut-off date, Microsoft will be "transitioning" the Halo Wars forums to Halo Waypoint's forums, which are "a lot less chaotic" than the Halo Wars boards. No posts or previous threads will make it to the new home.
     

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    Sour fans and community members will earn a bauble for their sign-up troubles if they choose to follow the conversation to the Halo Waypoint boards, the post reads. A special HaloWars.com forum avatar for use on Halo Waypoint will be offered to those who PM their new user names to this guy.  
     
    Just to be perfectly clear, Halo Wars multiplayer will continue to stay online and playable. This title update only removes the game's stat-tracking. You'll be able to continue to play the game online for, you know, funsies before and after this all goes down in December.

    Halo Wars debuted on February 26, 2009. It was the last game created by Ensemble Studios, the original creators of Age of Empires
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    #2  Edited By Vinchenzo

    ok

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    #3  Edited By JoelTGM

    (an RTS halo game was a bad idea!)

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    #4  Edited By csl316

    i had quite a bit of fun with this, but after finishing it on legendary i had my fill

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    #5  Edited By CaptainObvious

    NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

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    #6  Edited By rinkalicous

    ALL UNITS. ALL UNITS. ALL UNITS.

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    #7  Edited By zyn
    @Rinkalicous said:
    " ALL UNITS. ALL UNITS. ALL UNITS. "
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    #8  Edited By Rhombus_Of_Terror
    @DOUBLESHOCK said:
    " (an RTS halo game was a bad idea!) "
    ironic that Halo CE was originally an RTS to begin with...
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    #9  Edited By MrGetBonus

    oh darn

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    #10  Edited By ez123
    @DOUBLESHOCK said:
    " (an RTS halo game was a bad idea!) "
    ((It reviewed and sold very well!)) 
     
    (((I don't like rts games!)))
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    NO MORE UNITS

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    #12  Edited By Kinarion

    Seems like a pretty raw deal for anyone who still cares about Halo Wars. 
     
    Oh...I get it.

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    #13  Edited By cookiemonster

    Why doesn't LOCAL UNITS get any love?

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    #14  Edited By JoelTGM
    @RhombusOfTerror said:
    " @DOUBLESHOCK said:
    " (an RTS halo game was a bad idea!) "
    ironic that Halo CE was originally an RTS to begin with... "
    but then they just realized that shooting aliens up close and personal was more fun.
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    #15  Edited By warchief

    ALL UNITS

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    #16  Edited By warchief

    wait there was a fucking stats site?!

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    #17  Edited By august
    @Warchief said:
    " ALL UNITS "
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    #18  Edited By Listonosh

    Though I can see how some people are pissed, I myself am not that heartbroken about it. Halo Wars was a mediocre game at best.

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    #19  Edited By Waffles13

    What's with all the hate? Halo Wars is a fully competent and quite fun RTS. It may not set the world on fire, but that doesn't mean it was bad in any way. It's a shame that the stats are going down considering the love that Bungie-developed Halo games get, but really, the game still runs, so it's sort of a non-issue.

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    Wait. But how many units?

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    #21  Edited By TadThuggish

    4 stars mean it's absolute shit for not getting a 5

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    #22  Edited By ToxicAntidote

    Does that mean it's gonna be impossible to achieve "Running the Show" after the update goes live?

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    #23  Edited By EgoCheck616

    And nothing of value was lost.

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    #24  Edited By OneManX
    @Sir_Ragnarok said:
    " Wait. But how many units? "
    ALL!
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    #25  Edited By Ghostiet

    It pisses me off this is the last game made by Ensemble Studios. What a shame.

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    #26  Edited By ch3burashka
    @Ghostiet said:
    " It pisses me off this is the last game made by Ensemble Studios. What a shame. "
    Don't worry - they live vicariously through... Age of Empires Online.
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    #27  Edited By Raymayne

    Each and every unit!

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    #28  Edited By Double0hFor

    WOLO WOLO 
     
    o wait, wrong game

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    #29  Edited By Jeffsekai

    That really sucks. Halo wars was a ton of fun

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    #30  Edited By kagekage

    What's with the ALL UNITS going around here...

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    #31  Edited By pickassoreborn

    I suspected Microsoft always hated Halo Wars. This action confirms it.

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    #32  Edited By PixelGorilla

    Halo Wars is a great game and it sucks that stat tracking is going to be removed but at least the game still has online multiplayer. Hopefully after Age of Empires Online get's running for a bit, Robot can focus on Halo Wars 2 for the 360 and PC.

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    #33  Edited By Hot_Karl
    @Waffles13 said:
    " What's with all the hate? Halo Wars is a fully competent and quite fun RTS. It may not set the world on fire, but that doesn't mean it was bad in any way. It's a shame that the stats are going down considering the love that Bungie-developed Halo games get, but really, the game still runs, so it's sort of a non-issue. "
    Yeah. YEAH. The most sound post here (besides the ALL UNITS ones). Solid game, it's annoying that the stat-tracking is going down (not even 2 years after the games release) but they aren't shutting down the servers or anything (and considering that the developers closed down a long time ago, that's something) so whatever.
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    #34  Edited By DG991
    @PixelGorilla: god no...
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    #35  Edited By anterline
    It pisses me off that Microsoft closed Ensemble Studios. Why the fuck? they made perfectly good games.  
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    #36  Edited By ch13696

    Nothing against Microsoft. I'm sure they have their reason for doing this. However, couldn't they just sell or give the stat tracking API to a company or person that's willing to take care of it?

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    #38  Edited By Blueblur1
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    wait there was a fucking stats site?!
    Exactly. It will be missed by very few people. Sucks for Jacob (Cocopjojo) though. He has to de with all the angry fans.
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    #39  Edited By nintendoeats

    I'm not clear on why this wasn't part of Halo Waypoint anyway.

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    #40  Edited By jack_daniels

    Uhhh... anyone want to give me their halo wars game? I'll pay for shipping... Hell, I'll trade for Assasins Creed 1....

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    #41  Edited By OldManLight

    So what you're saying is now would be a bad time for me to get serious about halo wars multiplayer?

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    #42  Edited By timeshero
    @Sir_Ragnarok said:
    " Wait. But how many units? "
    ALL
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    #43  Edited By Lind_L_Taylor

    Fuck it!  This game is still on my back log.  As long as they
    don't screw me out of any achievements then I guess it's
    not a big deal.  I wonder why they bother putting in a leader
    board if they won't maintain it.  Makes me wonder about
    the future of other leader boards & online activity for these
    games.

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    #44  Edited By raiz265

    all units

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    #45  Edited By WinterSnowblind
    @EgoCheck616 said:
    "And nothing of value was lost. "

    Perhaps I shouldn't bother responding to someone with a blue name, but that's quite an unfair statement. 
     
    Microsoft have handled the game badly since before it even launched and although it isn't the greatest RTS ever, it was still quite a lot of fun to play.  I'd liken it to LoTR:  Battle For Middle Earth.  Not a particularly deep RTS, but if you're into the univerese, there's plenty to enjoy.  Especially as Halo as a lot of iconic and recognisable vehicles that could be used as units. 
     
    The game was overly simplified and was never going to find a market on the 360.  But it was by no means a bad game.
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    #46  Edited By Shabs

    Very weak of Microsoft to cut Leaderboards for a first-party Halo game with no sequel to migrate to.

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    #47  Edited By adamfedoruk

    Thats a little unfortunate, but oh well, I only checked out the stats site a couple times. This news makes me want to go back for that S rank though. I only need the General achievement, any duders wanna play, my tag is PrivateProlapse

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    #48  Edited By w34ky

    I didnt know anyone still played it.

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    #49  Edited By PixelGorilla
    @DG991:  
     
    Why not, exactly? Halo Wars is the best console RTS and Age of Empires is an amazing series so I don't see why a sequel for both the 360 and PC wouldn't be awesome as hell.
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    #50  Edited By audiosnag

    ALL UN- ah forget it.
    I liked Halo Wars i thought it was a really solid console RTS. Sucks Ensemble went out the way they did.

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