What happened to the Glory Days Of Xbox Live?
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2025
- What happened to the golden era Xbox Live? Back on the Xbox 360 there was a whole community build around Xbox Live in the golden glory day's. How did the old Xbox Live community around Halo and Call of Duty die?
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The thing that hurts the most is going through your friends list and seeing everybody say “offline”
VirusR Facts, that shit cuts deep 😔
Even back in the day, when you could only have so many 'friends' added, I legitimately went through my 'friends list' late and night and had to decide who to remove. But not once did I ever remove an old friend I had cherished memories with that had been "offline" for seemly forever.
I couldn't ever bring myself to do it.
True
I deleted all my friends for some reason
@@omokok1877 u monster
We all grew up... So the charm of the good days are gone, but not forgotten.
Exactly. We should be so lucky that we were even able to experience these glory days. I remember being in middle school in 2010 coming home to play Halo Reach
It’s actually sad though isn’t it. Miss those days
I agree
You never know you're in the good old days until its gone
BTmethius middle school in 2010 lol you are barely out of school.
Who remembers the “Don’t make me get my booter friend in the party”
Or the kid who always said his dad worked at microsoft
fuck yea!
Lol zone alarm 🚨
Sad it’s still a thing
That was actually PlayStation
Watching netflix with other people on xbox live was one of the best features ever
It’s crazy cause I remember back in 2009 I was at a friends house before I had live. We started a Netflix party with another friend. I only experienced this once....it quickly was taken away and a few years later I thought back to it, and totally thought I dreamed the whole thing. I had to actually research and see if it existed
This was literally one of the greatest features ever. I don’t see why they can’t bring it back.
What they had that
i remember watching the 2010 world cup games with my friends in a party, i think it was espn app hhaha
Before the feature was available me and my friends would count to three and just press play.
Rip to all our Xbox friends that are offline.
Never forgotten
Caleb Overbo gta v old gen offline since 2016, left 4 dead friends offline since 2017
My xbox live friends: still online but playing different games most of the time
The dark souls players I met: still sending hatemail
Zach'sJourney sort of the same thing happened to me some sad stuff
Zach'sJourney if u have the Xbox one add me. XXdaniXX12
@@Unhipsnow Dark souls has a really interesting community 50% Toxic 50% extremly wholesome.
Oh the good old days of little kids saying they'll hack you and that their dad works for Microsoft and will get you banned. Yes the glory days
Anakin Skywalker
I Remember Just playing
Cod WAW zombies and getting excited for the release of black ops :,)
Those kids are most likely adults now
A lot of the things heard on Xbox 360 Chat should never be repeated..... Those were the good ole days
Yeah that was me. I'm 25 now so stfu, my dad works for Microsoft
Vile • we are
2007-2008 Halo 3, CoD 4: Modern Warfare, Gears of War...
I remember everyone at school playing these games and it brought many people together across all friend groups. I remember the distinct hallway phrase, “you getting online tonight?”
There wasn’t group chat at this point so everyone used in game chat. Friends lists were booming. Game sales were booming. Internet connections were being upgraded. Those were the glory days. Everyone had the top titles and community. Those days are gone.
Party chat was a thing back then but many people preferred the game chat.
Uhhhh MW4??
XRubenX Gaming yep!
@@BSpears I'm pretty sure you meant Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare.
Yeah back then you only had what was called private chat which was only you and one other so game chat was the only way.
Halo 3 was the absolute greatest experience I ever had with multiplayer gaming. It's sad knowing something similar will never come back.
West Side is da best gaming will never , be the same :/
Wait... There is a new hope... *Halo Infinite starts glimmering in the distance.*
Let's hope it's not a truck coming to run us over.
@@tark_9882 Lol after Halo Reach, 4, and 5? You really think its coming back?
Tsar Marklovski I'm optimistic. It looks like from the trailer that they're going back to the original art style, but that's all we know at the moment. I do have my hopes up.
Pilot The game is not confirmed to be open world, though people have speculated about it.
“What do you do with a soccer ball?”
- you have been kicked from the party -
Classic
Classic😂
Yo, whats the shape of Italy? BOOT
Reece B mine was always
THE KICK US UP!!
*kicks person from party
AND ITS GOOD
Reece B mines was always ‘’what happens to a random girl you just got done fucking oh that’s right you kick her out’’
- you have been kicked from the party -
lmfao this was the og
I was 11 when I first got onto XbxLive. I was in a rush to play Halo 3 online so 3 holes were drilled in my house to wire an ethernet to my room. In 2007-08 Xbxlive was at its peak and as a kid, I naturally assumed that with time, it can only get better from here. Now Im 21 and have lost so much interest in video games that it actually saddens me. I thought I would be playing forever but responsibilities and the struggles of adulthood got in the way. But even when I have free time, I have no desire to play games anymore. Nostalgia is so bittersweet because I think about how great it was in the past, and realize how the future will never be as great as the past.
NorthLyfeHollywood Same here
I'm also 21 lol. I thought I was the only one experiencing this. Every time I try to play video games now a days I just don't get that old feeling that I use to get when I was younger. I remember I use to play for hours non stop like Halo 3, Halo reach, Black ops 1 and GTA 4. I would still play video games when I get some free time, but when I do I get so burned out by it or loose interest easily or feel empty when playing like it's just not worth the time anymore.
Damn im 27 I still play games i took a few years off due to jobs moving and a girl then I missed playing games I missed the old days Mechassault halo 2 and PGR2, the 360 era was legendary, but now that I'm able to play games everyday after work I dont have that feeling anymore i get bummed out or bored with games. I lost all my friends from then except for one. I've made new ones but that's not the same either. Even with games that are really good, games that bring out the younger me, doesnt last, RDR2 got that feeling out of me but lasted only so long and I stopped playing. It's sad how things change so fast...
Highly recommend MCC
@@Kinoo67 Only games I play now are MCC and Quake Champions.
The sad truth is, it’s all a part of the times. Atleast for my age anyway. I was still in school when everyone played xbox live, we would play Halo 3 some MW2, GTA IV and play till the early hours of the morning. But eventually we all grew up. We had new responsibilties, we had less time free to play games, and eventually those golden days fizzled out. The state of the gaming industry didn’t help matters, nothing captured the same feeling and nothing really brought everyone back. This is why the next generation isn’t as lively as before. I hope the state of gaming sorts itself out for all the younger gamers to experience the same things we did on a new platform, and they can make the same memories we once did.
Wow dude i can relate to that i was in high school back in the early 360 era. I miss those days this generation now is just not the same. PS4 right now currently is pretty much the 360 of last gen. Xbox one is just not the same as the 360 they dont even have xbox live arcade anymore
Better than what i was gonna write. True
Smell Yermaw I’m 12 and I still own a ps3 it’s still really good
Yea it’s inevitable you play games when your a kid then you get older and you get a chick knocked up then you have responsibilities o well boo boo move on who cares
This hit me hard😭
“Last online 10 years ago, Modern Warfare 2.” 😢
Sadly true. We were lucky to grow up during the 2000’s as kids and play the prime of the Xbox and Xbox 360 he’ll even GameCube, wii, maybe even n64. It was such a revolutionary period for gaming and we were the first generation to truly make gaming a societal norm. But, we did grow up as the kids who were playing 360, OG Xbox are approaching their mid 20’s now, we just don’t have as much time for gaming anymore and gaming itself has evolved. Middle schoolers rn are going to look back at these times and reminisce about fortnite, pubg. That’s just part of an evolving ecosystem and we were just lucky enough to have experienced the best era of gaming ever
Damn couldn't of said it better
Bravo! Spot on
Im 26 now, I used to smash out hours upon hours of halo 3 10 years ago. Just dont have the time anymore.
Like you said, we should all feel lucky to have been around during the best era of gaming!
Best era of gaming ever?
@@SourSoldier7 correct. Do you disagree?
I’m going to be starting high school next school year but I remember those good times mostly just cause we couldn’t get all the new stuff right away I mostly remember halo 3, gears of war 2, halo reach, and even a little bit of MW2 but not much that was the game my older brother mained mostly.
I remember the Netflix thing that was so fun. I’ll never understand why they got rid of that
Yeah man it was such a cool option
WarFootage - Instagram I hope there bring it back
Supposedly there was a conflict between that feature and the newer firmware updates to the console and UI
Just read that as he saidbit
I used to think that feature was incredibly stupid, so my friends and I decided to just play the movie at the same time haha. It's crazy to think I would be nostalgic about it now.
*Multiplayer game pauses*
“Migrating hosts...”
ಠ╭╮ಠ
That was actually considered an improvement. Before the game would straight up end.
The host has ended the game? :D
The amount of ptsd u gave is froghtening
Xbox died when party chat was made, forced game chat is basically non existent now and everyone either doesn’t talk or is in a party with their friends
It sucks
Ayy Lmao So true 💯 I noticed the change right away when Black Ops 1 first released
It's because the One X doesn't come with a headset. That's just really stupid considering its price point and the social nature of Xbox Live.
The 360 had the cheap stock headset and everyone used it. The One X? Nothing. The system already costs more than £400 and you have to pay yet more for a headset? Nobody does that and even I bought the cheapest one I could find.
Come on, Microsoft. That's dumb.
yep. i totally agree. i loved the fact that MW2 forced you into game chat
I disagree. Party Chat was a thing even in the days of CoD4 and Halo 3. My friends and I would go into game chat if playing with a random and just how we would in party chat. We would pick people up for customs, and shit talk people who told us to piss off. Most people in those times didn't hide away in party chat.
I miss summer nights, pulling all-nighters with friends, doing 1v1s in rust or all playing separate games but still talking, crushing bags of Doritos and boxes of pizza and bottles of dr. Pepper. I miss not having the stress of responsibilities and just being able to live in the moment, not caring about anything else in the world. It’s nearly impossible to recreate those memories, but for my birthday, my friends and I stayed up late playing forge maps on halo reach and it was magical.
This sums it up perfectly. It's amazing to think that after almost a decade, Reach still has, for a game that old, a decent population. I remember meeting so many people through Reach, people I still talk to. I'm glad I grew up in those times and not the ones now.
Beautiful
Its sad how I can relate to this and goddamn age is real...im 22 now. Got rent, car note and all that lol. I miss team snipers on Halo 3
Vintage Same here. Almost 23.
Thats sad.
I’m 20 years old. I started to cry during this video solely do to my childhood. I wish I could go back to the good ole days playing on Reach custom games with older guys yelling at me for being a jagoff. Blops 1 and 2. It hurts my heart so much. I just want to go back where I don’t have to worry about bills, college or stress/money.
I'm turning 21 this year man and I got to tell you I grew up playing Xbox live since 2008 with cod world at war and later mw2, I remember playing free for all and killing some dude over and over then trash taking him, then he started saying racist shit cause he was getting owned by everyone in the lobby and I just kept laughing at him till he left cause he was salty as shit, I fucking miss 2008 - 2013 it was the best years of my life playing Xbox live.
-IvOutBreak - facts man.
I feel the same brother, You are not alone. But its life, We all gotta move on
Blops 2 was awesome. I played that game so much when I was 14! So much trash talk with noobs, so many stupid little kids, so much owning people and seeing them rage quit, etc.
6 years later, I'm now a 20 year old sophomore college student. Many of my Xbox Live friends I played Blops 2 with are no longer active. I still go on Xbox, but not on live because my interests have changed a bit: I have been playing a lot of single player games lately, and there are still a lot of single player games I have been interested in playing. I also like watching T.V shows, more movies, reading or looking interesting stuff on the internet, taking a bike ride once a week, and sometimes reading books. Even on days where I have no school and no homework (ex: winter break, spring break, some Sundays), if I were to play BOTH single player games and multiplayer games I would make very little progress on my other activities.
I do miss playing Xbox Live a little bit, but our interests change as we get older, and we also get busier.
@Leo Dancor Fuck you they were both amazing. I spent long nights on both don't you dare turn them against each other. All those Halos are just dreams, the best kinds of dreams
Dont be sad that its gone, be happy that it happened.
online gaming is going to die soon arcades will be the next big thing
get out of the man cave meet a girl see the sunlight drive a car
@@rigomortisfxstudios your life sounds dull and trivial
Dang that's deep.
@@rigomortisfxstudios haha
NuclearRS um fuck u
Only real gamers Remember the start of a match when people threw grenades at the start of the match
Still do it bro just to keep it livin alive
Was that at the start of the match by any chance?
NDL SPUDS I think he meant it was at the start of the match
@Lil Lil nah both of you are wrong he means the end of a match
Still doing it
Who remembers being called a squeaker?
I was the one who called people squeakers!
@@salisburysings254 that was the cycle for me too! lmaoooo
erry day g
Alex Salisbury this made me smile from ear to ear, Graduating from the squeakers was one of the most rewarding feelings like you’d earned your stripes. Kids nowadays will probably never know that feeling.
Am I alone in this? : After being called a squeaker, instead of insulting back, you tryhard.
It is probably one of the reasons I am a competitive person today. In my mind, it was the best comeback to being called a squeaker. You would utterly destroy them and they would have to sit there knowing a child just beat them.
Always hated angry mw2 players, now i miss them all
Holy shit man word
Looking back at it, it makes me cry looking at all the good memories we used to have on the 360. Currently trying to hook up my Xbox 360 again.
I miss playing Halo, Minecraft, and Black ops ll with my friends.
Now we’re just stuck with Fortnite…
Bricks-Forever-Pictures And I’m not falling for that Bait of a game. Too Corny.
Same and now we’re not even playing together anymore because life is life . But we wont forget these good times ;)
Oh god not fortnite... NEVER FORTNTE
windex man1 if you play fortnite you automatically have ligma
[RG] - Retardedgirls ikr
Remember when demos sometimes would almost be as good as playing a full game? I remember the multiplayer demos were great. Also, remember 1 vs 100?
Billy Cobb Phantasy Star Universe Demo 👍👍
I remember!
Billy Cobb i thought i was the only one who remembered 1 vs 100! That was my shit lol
@@anthonygates7523 HOLY fuck when they fucked up the mic chat the first day so you could hear literally every single person in lobby
I wish demos were a thing still man it helped me discover so many great games especially fear 2
Modern warfare 2 one xbox live turned kids into veterans you got adults screaming that they where going to kill you and your parents now days every body is soft what ever happen to the golden days
Everyone turned in to a smartass.
I remember back then, I use to insult the living shit out of those man babies back then.
But now, mostly everyone is mature enough to know that if you rage and talk shit to little kids on game chat, you’ll be easily slandered and labeled as a person with no life, who pathetic enough to only talk down to little kids.
Like honestly, whenever I encounter those types of people, I see them as gold mines to be rekt upon on chat and on a 1v1 match.
And hides behind parties
@Wilfred Willy @ me lmao
Ill give you 2 words. Overpopulating Parents.
@HAL 9000 What? Chats in games pre 2007 were just as "shit" my bud.
We grew up... that’s what happened. We will never get those days back.
EXACTLY!!
yeah... :/
ah more insufferable bores
Yup, 20 now. Started playing mw2 when I was 12 without a care in the world
I want to cry!!! Reading that hit me with the feels bro
Kids wont survive mw2 lobbies nowadays
Tru, they get offended if i say "gay" for some reason
they don't need to tho my dude we too hard now
@@dialect2916 there not tho now deadass the other day I called a kid gay on bo4 and I got banned for a week
Kyran Clark They got offended a lot back then too and I got banned twice.
@@steviewanderer5109 lmao I never used to get banned
Halo 2
Halo 3
Cod4
WaW
MW2
L4D2
These were the best years to be a gamer
FACTS
You forgot gears of war 1-3
Neon word. Add gears on there and this is the list. We used to play halo 1 online thru a computer program called XBC/Xbox connect, that you would use to form a lobby online with it-thru the system link option on halo. (XBL didn’t drop just yet) The top of the H1 community on XBC is where MLG spawned from... They put together the first 50k Halo MLG tourney “MLG NY” which was actually held in jersey somewhere... It was epic coming up during that time playing those literal game changers
Such a casual. Cod 2-3 were good. The normies entered on Cod4.
Yea now ur playing fortnite
Who still has like hundreds of their old games from the 360 looking at them like “wow I had so many choices” now I’m stuck with like 5 or 6 choices now
For reals bro, I remember buying a lot of games back then. I have like 30 Xbox 360 game's, compared to my Xbox which I only have about 8.
I’ll get u banned my dad works at Microsoft- every kid in 2010
Nabeel Khan I wonder how many times the kid was serious and Someone actually got banned 😂
2019
And the kids who send death threats to to you via messager
Bro do u guys still get those threats like me Lol 😆
Talking to people was my favorite thing in mw2
SouulFood yes there was always some very interesting people in mw2. Although it was trash talk central, people always had this connection to each other. It was magical.
@@lowercase3635 Still is today, it's absolute aids, but I love it.
Man kids who play this generation cant handle the game chats from mw2 from 2009 and so on 😂 i was one of those trash talkers and who smacked people🤷😂 tbh
I miss those good ass days man
Hell yeah brother game chat in general was the business, talking smack to the other team pre and post match in lobbies was sooo good. Nowadays what’s left of game chat is just young kids unaware there mics are on with screaming family in the background. God I miss the old days
Party chat ruined the engagement of the game. That and you can’t say anything these days without getting suspended. Kids wouldn’t last 5 seconds in the OG days of Xbox Live in the early 00’s. It was the wild west 😂
SmithandWessonBlazer wanna go back to the Wild West?? Gta iv has a lot of players (I found 9 the other day) and they were in voice chat!!
SmithandWessonBlazer Facts I’ve been suspended for months at a time for just cussing or literally calling someone a squeaker it’s crazy stupid. I miss those old west days 😂
I’m trying to go back can u take me any suggestions for toxic lobbies on Xbox one
I know
Yeah man, getting burnt to a crisp on Cod and gta online was very... Character building to say the least
“My dad works for Microsoft you’re getting banned”
“Talk to me when your balls drop”
Just a few of many hate 🤣🤣
40yr Grease ball: “Talk to me when your balls drop”
Me: “They did in your moms mouth”!
The latter gave me the perfect flashback
Xbox live used to promote trash talking now you get a week comm ban for offending anyone
It never promoted that, that's just how people are naturally. Even UA-cam is a place where people trash talk alot. Doesn't mean UA-cam promotes or endorses that, it's just human nature really.
Roman Crusader the xbox live promo video promoted trash talking and even told people that if they dont like trashtalking just mute them
Shiiit I called somebody a fool and got banned for life lol
Im up to month bans for the littlest shit. So glad i ditched xbox. Truly a ruined product
ZIPPER True smh Xbox became soft af
Gears of War was a huuuuuugee part of this hayday period.
Fuck yeah! Exploding chainsaws and crab walking...
It did problem was they kinda stopped making big Gears titles after 3. Judgment wasn't as widely known and 4 came out long after what this video talks about.
Hell yeah best online game I played in high school besides Halo 3.
And started tearing up the community. Haha lol
Soooooo true
Who remembers when Microsoft points was a thing. Those were the golden days, I made allot friends through halo custom games and Xbox live in general. I wish I could go back to those days
I very much miss these days.. Sometimes I get back on my 360 to try and find some old glory but.. the 360 just feels so empty now from what it used to be.. the games and maps are there, but there's no players.. the community is gone but my memories are still there. It's very depressing and I wish we could all go back to the glory days. I spent a good chunk of my life on the 360 and I wouldn't trade it for all the amazing friends and times I've experienced. I used to be able to cry from laughter while playing a game because we'd troll some shit talker but you just don't come across it anymore. The 360 is what defined online gaming for me and I never would of imagined it would come to this and it sucks.
100% man. It really is so depressing. I wish I could get those days back
I got Ace Combat 6 for Christmas 2018, and there were literally 0 people playing.
R.I.P ACE COMBAT 6 ONLINE 2007-2017
Last week a guy was using a mic and me and my friend trolled him, we almost died of laughter because of his rage. It made our day, but its so rare nowadays
I played cod 4 and waw as recently as 2017. Of course hardly any one else was playing though
Honestly calling someone a wet noodle will probably get you banned...
Calling someone a Winnie or a Super Winnie would probably get you banned too.
Yeah soy boys ruined chat with all their crying about everything. The way I look at it, is there is a mute button for a reason. If you dont like what I'm saying then mute me. I'll do the same if you're annoying me. Problem solved instead of banning people.
Eraxz that's not true but ok
Eraxz if you send a voice message you won't get banned
@@notavailable1012 exactly!
I'm surprised you didn't mention all the censorship from Microsoft. Everyone with funny gamertags were forced to change them and people are instantly banned for saying any "bad words" over the mic or messages. The whole community was castrated in the name of girl gamers and not hurting people's feelings despite most of the market being dudes who want to talk shit but still have a good time together.
mexifry222 lol my friends gamertag was ‘AutismCaused911’ he got banned within a few weeks
mexifry222 my buddy had the name IamBeaner23 that he had when he first started playing years ago, 1 year ago someone reported it and he had to change it
This is exactly what happened and it’s sad, I sent a griefing online racer a message recently all it said was “cunt” and I got banned from sending messages and in game chat for 3 days
Some salty dude reported my name “knot z killer” and they used my free gamer tag change to change my name so I got scammed out of my free gamer tag change and got stuck with an Xbox name...
Yeah Microsoft has been trying to shift into the niche of a family console to limit competition so from that perspective it makes sense
I'm 27 now. I think I'm on the older end of the spectrum here. I remember playing Halo 2 online at its peak and going to the H3 midnight release (epic). Call of Duty 2 and 3 were also epic (which I'm sure most people don't remember or didn't play). Good fucking times.
Man oh man going to the h3 realise at game stop was awesome got so much free swag and even met a few life long friends whole standing in line.
@@jakehansen3418 It was truly amazing. Some guys had brought a truck with two TV's and two Xbox's with in the bed and played H2 on LAN. Great times.
@@narlycharley It truelly was an experience kids these days will never know.
narlycharley jake hansen me too bros...me too. Kids will never understand. nothing compares to those days.
19 🙋🏽♂️here, i remember all of this like it happened last week
All these people saying "We grew up"... Nah, it would be easy to think that but go into game chat on most games now and it's dead. I remember GTA IV free modes being hives of activity.
There has been a societal shift. Everyone is more reserved now out of fear of being persecuted for doing anything wrong. A piece of humanity has been lost
Isnt it more that microsoft are just ridiculously strict now? Like i was playing fifa pro clubs a few weeks ago, some guy wasnt passing the ball so i sent him a message saying "pass the fucking ball" and im assuming he reported me because i got suspended from xbox live for 48 hours
@@CitrusMenace , Yeah I dunno why they became so fuckin puritan about speech, but I HATE it. Actually I do know. Microsoft always wanted Xbox to be the one-stop family entertainment machine. So when all the trash talking and cursing happened in games like Halo 2 and 3 they did all they could to shift away from that in order to make it more palatable for families.
Stfu 😂
@@CitrusMenace last time i played in game chat i got killed said shit and got a one week ban
@@CitrusMenace Lol thats fucked up. What a biggity bitch .
Being scammed out of my dad’s credit card details after some guy offered to mod my gamer tag in Mw2 around 2010 remains one of the fondest memories of my childhood 😪
Lmao a friend literally gave his xbox account to a guy we didn’t even know because he offered my friend to level up his account to 50 on every playlist in halo 3. (We were like 13 at the time)
Hahahahahahahahaa I got some accounts from random people and boosted them to 50, they gave me amazon cards or paid via Paypal. And everyone was happy :D
@@eduardomoreno8207 Well I did this on gta 5 old gen, I was having a flash 360 so I give them money and rp for free. I still have my flash 360
@@eduardomoreno8207 Yup, it happened to me. I was 9 and dumb af.
We will grow old, but we will never grow up.
Don't think I didnt notice that Cod 4 Wii gameplay haha
Richard The controller add on for that game could probably get you arrested nowadays
Richard MW Reflex Edition was the bomb.
isnt that world at war for the wii?
Callum Spriet Yeh it is mate, these lot ain't got a clue what they're on about 😂
The best years of my life
Bring back the pandas
Simple really, We got to experience unique and innovative games at their best before they got milked to death. Now a days games are stale and full of microtransactions.
Honestly nowadays I don't even get excited for games, whereas as recent as 2015 I remember being so hyped for games like the Witcher 3, Fallout 4 and MGS 5, Akram Knight, Bloodborne and more. Nowadays the only games I'm looking forward to are Cyberpunk, Red dead 2 (which is out already) and outer worlds.
The gaming industry is just not innovating like it used to.
It's true :/ but some game companies still care. Who knows how long that will last though.
Some genuinely good games are:
Ultimate Chicken Horse
Gangbeasts
Minecraft (play 1.8)
Rocket League
Race the Sun
Pummel Party
Raft
I have not have experienced the golden age of xbox live. And i'm sad about that, i would never ever feel the same way about online chatting as you guys. I wasnt able to experience Halo 3 or even COD. But, i was able to experience one game.... Minecraft. I loved that shit to death man, i met so many people there, most of which I will never talk to again. I wish i could experience Xbox live, but I cant, I dont want to pay for this xbox live trash on the xbox one. Games today are fucking MICROTRANSACTIONS MICROTRANSACTIONS. Thats why i only play nintendo games and older games such as mgs 5, etc. lol
@@user-jo8uh3gt7o I'm glad you got to enjoy Minecraft man!
You are forgetting gears
Gears had the douchiest dicks of them all. Most were the no lifer 20-30 year old crowd that were fat and had no gf so they were trash talking anyone that they didnt know
An og battlefront
jdl 68 you sound like someone who couldn’t handle the heat of a roast so please
Conor Doyle yeah well atleast i dont have a last name like doyle i mean really? What the fuck are you that kid from billy madison? ODOYLE RULES HUR HUR HUR
jdl 68 actually I’m Irish the name is of Irish origin 🤦♂️ nice try next time
Bruh this vid actually brought a tear to my eye. 2007-2012 I remember having so many good times in halo 3 and reach, cod black ops and mw2, I spent so much time and got to know so many amazing people. And like you said, around 2012 ish it all really did just sorta fall apart. I still have all those old friends on my friends list, but they've been offline now for going on 8 or 9 years.. Now my game crew is my brother and a couple other friends, but no one from xbox live anymore. It's really sad, I'll never forget the good ol days, the glory days. Good times.
The reason that xbox isn’t in the glory days anymore is because you can get banned for putting literally any cuss word in a message. But for some reason they still allow people with gamerpics of half naked women. Please right me a comment telling me this, what sounds more damaging to a 9 yr old? A half naked woman as someone’s gamer pic, or hearing someone drop an f bomb. I’m curious.
Liked21 naked woman
My friend got a perma ban for trash talking in a message
Neither because society sexualizes tits and tits are just fatty tissue that can produce milk.
Vladimir Putin guy I work with got a seven day ban for sending a guy a message calling him a pussy. The kicker. The guy he sent the message to was on his friends list
I got a comm ban just for saying the word "gay", not even as an insult. Just a straight up comm ban with ni warning or anything
What ever happened to getting games that were finished and fully developed before release? And not early access and used Betas just for Marketing campaigns.
Those times are looooong gone. For fucks sake BF3's beta was a pre order bonus. Thats 7 years ago!
Ikr. I also think the most sad gamers of all time are the ones who feed into these marketing campaigns you speak of and post clickbaited overhyping videos everywhere. RIP gaming 2014. Devs need to start listening to us old gamers instead of these moronic dumb PS4 new gens
Zova yea
LordReef yea
@@Slurpified Only Devs I truly trust now are Rockstar and the devs that made the witchers (Forgot their name), the ones making Cyberpunk 2077.
Who used to get together with 8 friends in different rooms and have LAN parties before Xbox live with games like halo1
I still do, for nostalgias sake i get 4 or 5 mates around and play halo 3.
Its dropping off as the years go by.
This needs to have more views it's just not the same anymore I miss the good Xbox live days
Tbh when master chief entered in cryo once again, it felt like this was the end of the golden age in general
That's so damn true
sounds nerdy but I’m glad to have spent my late child years and very early teen years playing Xbox. Lost it’s momentum when I went to high school and now I’m a freshman in college lol
THANKS TO GOD.
Holy crap I remember buying microsoft points to deck out my avatar... Doritos crash course!?!? what a flashback. I am thankful I got to experience the long nights of Left 4 Dead with friends, quickscope lobbies on MW2, and even Gears of War. I miss the simplicity of not giving a shit about becoming a "pro" or a streamer or taking things too seriously. It was just friends having fun. The only goal everyone strived for was to be a part of OpTic or to become 10th prestige.
Good times... I still remember my first ever Xbox Live gamertag "killingguy526"
Sxntana
bombers20, I believe this was the first gamer tag I ever had. Awww man warms my heart just thinking about it. I think the first game I ever played live was cod 2? Jeez I was 9 years old at the time, now I’m 22 😆 where the hell does all the time go!!
I haven't changed my gamertag since I got an Xbox.
Oh shit left 4 dead, It’s a Shame valve can’t count to three, l4d blown up then, IMAGINE IT NOW!!! It needs to be revived
Valve:Ok Teacher Why am I in kindergarten
Teacher:because you need to count to three dear
Valve:what’s three??
Teacher:you know half life 2,Left 4 Dead 2 portal 2,team fortress 2 and all the other games you haven’t made a 3 yet?
Valve:yeah?
Teacher:well now you can make all those games if you count to 3! Count to 3!
Valve:1....2....CARD GAME!!
Teacher:Takes a Bullet to the head
Sxntana also, my first gamertag was ‘iHaupageModz9’
@@snacksmoker5531 I couldnt agree more lol. I dont really play anymore but if left 4 dead 3 or half life 3 I would start back up in a heartbeat.
Jesus I miss the Netflix party option. Had so many great laughs with friends watching movies together
I definitely missed out on that one. I'm jealous..😂
Chances are I ran into some of yall on Xbox Live on 360 during 2008-2014 or so... Good to see you again, and damn it was a hell of a run!
Demn thats true. high chance.
the day the new console dropped. is the day people stopped talking
facts lobbies were never the same after the ps4 and xbox1 came out
VictoryRoad04 they are way too strict...i’ve gotten banned like 3 times in a row for nothing. ill just keep my messages to myself
Let me tell u something , if u log in to mw2 public chat youll see the 2009 community still
I still play mw2
Cuz those niggas still stuck in 09 lmao
Nick Courie 😂😂😂 fr
Yeah just got on lmao
just not true is it
Kids will look back on Fortnite and be like I miss that game
Petition to make Halo Infinite the new popular game when it comes out
@@jordancup5802 yes
so what's the problem? it isn't a bad game
@@y00d wasn't at first. Then it got to be toxic after season 5
cuboidDust1 YT the game got shitty in season 5. That’s when everyone started being competitive and they just couldn’t have fun and accept their loss.
Its late 2018 and people are still playing Modern Warfare 2 on the PS3
Jarambe Jarambe123 wait really?
Alot of hackers tho
It’s even better on the Xbox, since all Call Of Duty’s are now backwards compatible!
Karrecod but mw2 backwards compatible was a flop i guess everyone wanted it and got it and no one plays it. I got it and played it for 2 days and quit because it wasnt the same as it used to be i didn’t enjoy it like i used to
@@thomasteevan1599 It's not a flop at all. Even their sales increased and a lot of people are starting out from rank 1 after buying the game new. A lot play in game chat too and actually talk (with good quality mics too!) It truly is a wonderful experience and I genuinely recommend it.
I remember when I was literally dying at school just waiting to talk to my friends online and play games but now I barely pick up the controller
Yooo me too!! I was just like waiting for that bell to ring couldnt wait to get home! Now its like 2 friends i can have alot of fun playing siege but nothing else really
Same here.
You’re making me cry 😢. I miss those days
I missed so much. I got my first Xbox 360 in 2011 and I only caught halo reach, bf3, minecraft, bo2, and then all my live friends disappeared. I died inside knowing I'd never get to talk to those people again. Some would play till the next day and we would make good tactics in bf3 and build dumb things in minecraft. Then... Poof they havent logged in for a week... Then a month then... A year. I tried pc gaming it was to expensive and I couldnt get a job due to being in a small town. I use to love gaming. Now its a thing of my past. Ill always miss you Xbox live
Morrison Adams
Dang this hits close to home for me. I got my 360 for Christmas 2010. COD4, WAW, MW2, BO1, Halo 3 and Reach, BFBC2, BF3, Minecraft, MW3. Wow those were the days. Then we all grew up :(
Damn I felt this bro.
That was before social media became mainstream and around the time Facebook became popular. Then people started really buying Wiis and not really going on 360 anymore.
I had a similar experience after I moved to the PS4, I really miss all the people I used to play the 360 with 😞
@IamOnlyArchon I moved to Ps4 with only a few friends from Xbox. From then we also met new people who also left Xbox to Ps4 to try something new. Theres still fun games to play nowadays. But it wont be as great as Xbox live golden age
"Kids went into Call of Duty lobbies and came out seasoned veterans." -Optimus
Btw I played on psn and lobbies were just as great as the xbox ones I watched on youtube.
that's just the cod community for you
I’m 13 and I got my first Xbox for Christmas and I had always heard the stories of the glory days of Xbox live and I always wished we could go back to those days, I know toxic kids were a very prominent part of the community but I really want something I was never there to experience back. I feel a sense nostalgia for something I never was there to see.
Ill be 23 this year. I wish you could have seen it too. People actually cared about gaming in an emotional sense, and the laughs and triumphs were celebrated by all. It was like a huge party that couldn't be spoiled no matter what was said. No limits.
I’m being genuine when I say I’m terribly sorry you missed out! The absolute best memories I have from 6th-10th grade took place on Xbox 360 with some of the greatest people I’ve had the pleasure of meeting online. I quit playing for a few years to focus on school and my potential career. I recently came back to find that everything has changed and all of my wonderful friends are gone. I know as a working adult I’m too busy for it anyway but I really was hoping to catch up with a few old friends. I hope eventually you’ll be fortunate enough to have a similar experience! I cherish those memories.
Meh I’m 12 and I just encountered it the other day on gta iv, shit ton of people in game chat and it’s not dead
Mallory W I just turned 15 and I remembered I got my Xbox 360 when I was like 9, I can still remember playing minecraft with aload of people and brief memories of me playing cod with trash talkers. Although I don’t really remember the og 360 days I sure had a good ass time on the Wii as a kid
Original Xbox live 2004-2006 were the best days of my life. Then 360 came out and it got even better
Same here bro I miss those times
2009: Xbox live
2018: ePic gAmEs sTorE
To add, all of the friends, and family, I met and grew close with moved on to bigger and better things in life. My first experience with XBOX Live was in 2007. I remember getting my new 360, Gears of War, and Halo 2 along with my personal internet connection for my birthday. I met two Gears players that I grew so close to, I eventually befriended their family who also played Gears. I was like a cousin. I also linked up with people I was friends with on MySpace. It was such a great time. I eventually graduated High School, moved on to College, and so did a majority of my online friends. I still scroll through my old friend's list when playing 360 games on my One X. I can still see the last game they played. Hits ya right in the Nostalgia.
If they add permeant game chat on new games (good games) we could actually see people start becoming more of a community again.
That would be unfair for people who just want to have fun and not get shouted at.
Gary Kaelin games like csgo rainbow six leauge of legends dota 2 overwatch all have this game chat aspect you just won’t find it on a console
Get your Fortnite ass outta here. Go play PS and stay out of cod.
@@Liam-jy7yi All cod games used to have forced game chat and it was great
@@eddykaye8217 Dude! Ive been saying this forever wtf Im surprised. F13 reminds me of old 360 games too its like one of the only games Im playing rn on the boring ass PS
Halo 2 during the original Xbox days. I've had an account since xbl's inception. Those days you would get together with your virtual Xbox friends and do just about anything. Hell, I remember playing hide and seek on Halo 2 lol. The chat and community aspect has almost disappeared entirely. I only really play BF4 online now and don't use a mic anymore. Could never find a game where people talk
Same here. Halo 2's time was the "glory days" in my opinion. Proximity chat in game, no private chat lobbies and almost EVERYONE had a mic. If someone did not have a mic, they were the oddball out. Now it's the other way around.
I agree 100% I would wake up at 530am before school to play online best time of my life
Michael Myers and cops and robbers oh how I miss those 😔
😭😭😭 those were the days or playing zombies maps on black ops 1 tryna get high ass rounds
Or quickscope matches on black ops 1
KetchupDre oh man you guys being back memories.
Astro Dan those were the days😌 man why can’t we go back now all we have is memes, no jokes and meToo 2019😞
KetchupDre I bought an Xbox one a few weeks ago just to play mw2 and black ops
Nobody is on game chat anymore. And that is probably 80% of the reason it's not the same. Other 20% has to be that the games that used to be popping became old and WAAAAY overdone.
Jordan Dunn they need to make to where the game forces u to be in game chat. I play for 2 hours of bo4 and no one ever talks. It’s quiet sad and I wish people were toxic so I can talk my shit
They also need to include free headsets with the console again.
The One X doesn't include one whereas the 360 did. Needless to say the 360 had a lot more in-game chat and felt more sociable.
Clarissa McPigeon probably doesn’t come with a mic cuz they assumed that people who got the Xbox 1 x was just upgrading from there regular xbox one or Xbox one s which these came with mics
The title should be the glory days of FPS shooters
I remember back in the old days where people would talk shit to each other and not hit the report button
I can't say to someone on rainbow that going blitz is a pushy move without a com ban
Battlefield 3 with Xbox live = a lot of friends
who remembers watching sky with your avatars and when avatar outfits were exciting to look at... Nostalgia...
Well...People grew up, Everyone hides in party chats now, and the kids these days will report you for sneezing too loud! But me personally I don't care anymore, when I *finally* find the time to get on I just want to play with my friends and have fun, not argue with 6 different dudes cause one said I'm trash lol. It was fun back in 2009, but I don't have the patience anymore to deal with people!
WeBe Flexin once you grow up and get a job it makes you hate most people for some reason lol
Halo reach was riddled with clans, I would know I got recruited and we all had to wear brown armor I forgot the emblem
I know right. I was in so many clans back in the prime time of Halo: Reach that I can't even remember how many I was in. In fact, I even vaguely remember leading a clan myself once. I ended up working for another gamer in the end who had me going around spying on other clans. Good times.
I was the clan hunter lol, always soloing it on matches against clans hahaha
Whats everyone's best memory on 360? Mine was coming home from school and jumping on bo1 and playing kino with friends multiplayer for hours and hours on end go to sleep late at night get up for school and talk about bo1 all day with friends and not being able to wait and get home and play again had one mate that didn't have online so I would take my 360 over there and we would play 2p zombies never ever get those days back :(
2010, playing with my best friend on Call of Duty. Since my parents were stricter then, I had to play M rated games at his house. We would switch to my GameCube and Wii games from time to time and play outside but Xbox was still a big part of our conversations and activities. I miss the walks home we took since we lived 2 houses away from each other lol
Moved away after a few years but I’ll never forget those memories 🔥
mine was playing black ops and attempting to quickscope COOLKILL, He was kinda like a mentor to me but we stopped talking when I got BO2 and he stayed on BO1 and MW2. I was 12 and he was 18 the last time I spoke to him now Im 19 and wonder if he remembers me or not...
I had a ps2 when it came out but it broke after a while so it wasn't till 2012 I got another console and I was 12 at the time but I just miss the people I met
gta5 2014 going around killing hole lobbies and seeing triggered people message me or get crews on me or the lobbie just to kill me, had a crew of 3 we would play all day everyday but sadly 2015 came and I got left on 360 till 2018 when I got my xbox 1 but I haven't spoken to them in yrs
Wade 927 Halo 3, custom games/matchmaking with my brother and friends followed by forging maps for hours with an online friend with who I seemed to figure out every intricacy to that game mode... not to mention the gems that were Red Dead 1 online, role playing and grinding hideouts, MW2 multiplayer and WaW zombies.
@@TopPB same here we always tried to get out of campaign maps
This is a great vid, well done!
I miss the good old days!
We all miss those days so much, that's how you know they were the best
What happened?
The Xbox One E3 Reveal happened
Press F
@@RocketSloth F
Xbox one truly divided the community big time
I think the creation of party chat also kind of killed it.
Am I the only one who feels that nearly no one uses voice chat in game on current gen consoles? Yea you got ur irl friends you talk to in party chat but I used to make a friend a week on 360 playing a bunch of different games from talking to randoms now it’s rare to have a game of battlefield where someone on your team uses a mic too.
that happened even before the next gen console, as soon as party chat came to being everyone started using that, games got better mostly but the community had already died out by that point and it died out because people were moving forward with their lives and had stopped their addiction for gaming
*Rest in Peace, Halo 3 Matchmaking*
Man, what great times. Coming home after school and playing with your friends everyday, getting in arguments with your friends and randos, playing the same zombies map over and over again and never getting tired of it. Man Xbox Live was great.
it was an era u just had to witness... if u want the truth it’s cause games are terrible now honestly... there’s no replay factor and these companies are money hungry. back then the trash talkin was at its peak and the campaigns had focus to them just as much as multiplayer and its gone forever... miss these times God bless
I wish those days were still here, now it's try hard 8 year old fortnite obsessed Ali-a fan boys
At least we got rdr2 and rb6 but we got shit fortnite
@Raider 2747 i say fuck fortnite not because it's a bad game(i actually play it myself), but because the fanbase is CANCER
You touched on it briefly but one MAJOR reason why this ended up like this was the party system. Before it was introduced on the 360, EVERYONE spoke on general chat because that was the only choice hence you had your interactions with everyone else. I remember in the original xbox and early 360 days how hilarious it was to hear other people just being funny. If anyone was annoying you just muted them and spoke with whoever was around. Unfortunately once the party system was introduced it took a bunch on people who already knew each other out of the equation hence less and less people were able to even meet each other. Also let’s not forget that with the first and 360, Microsoft really emphasized the microphone use with live. This was completely lost with the one. Unfortunately MCC was the final nail in the coffin as tons of people just gave up and either went to the ps4 (who cares even less about socializing) or the PC which has tons of standalone chatting programs.
This, seems people here are only young enough to remember when the 360 had party chat. Socializing on the xbox 360 died once party chat came along at the end of 2008 (which is also when I started my freshman year) I even remember I spent all of my high school years only in party chat with my friends, the days of playing halo 3 or Call of duty 4 with strangers were gone. There were many times though I was alone because I would get home before everyone or I stayed home so I tried talking in-game chat. It was quiet, but there would be some people here and there. It was only Thursdays-sundays where you can really talk to people in-game because some people liked heckling others with their friends, or people like me who played more than their friends did. Honestly the saddest thing is when I quit xbox almost entirely after Red Dead came out (became PC only) and seeing almost nobody playing games anymore in 2011 onward. GTA V revived it for 6 months but after that it was completely barren again. Now it's already been 6 years since even that time.
Is mcc still socially active or no one use mics
Still to this day, I grieve and wish to go back to my glory days, which included Xbox Live and the timeline of events discussed. Great perspective/argument Rocket Sloth.
I think the implementation of the party chat system, ended the majority of lobby conversations. We were just lucky enough to make friends before it was implemented and rode that wave until it passed.
Did we all have the same childhood?
I remember playing Counter Strike on Xbox Live.
I miss the days of being called a squeaker, of migrating hosts, of quick scope battles, of Michael Myers, of death threats from other users, of meeting new people online.
Damn, I miss my childhood.
I’m so glad I was a part of these days and still have connections with the people I met. In 2018 I met about 8 of the people I met on Xbox live 11 years ago! I was 10 years old when we met and when I turned 21 I went to different states, some came to mine and we grabbed some drinks and had a great time. Xbox live really changed my life!
The thumbnail was my childhood games.
It's so sad to see everything we've created and all the connections we've made disappear with time 😔 I will miss you all..
Seeing clips from Halo 3 custom games is really taking me back, you always had to have that one guy with the custom game lobby hookups. My favorite was probably cops and robbers, there was also this one called Old People on Scooters where the infected were fast and had gravity hammers and the survivors were slow and had to ride around on the mongoose.
The only real life friends I've ever made are from the Xbox Live hey day. It was amazing.