The future of the game is up in the air, but one thing is for sure: there is definitely a market for classic Halo multiplayer action. If a player can find those files in the wild, they can download the mod and play the game.įor their part, the ElDewrito team is taking 343’s advice and ceasing development for the time being. Microsoft’s legal team issued takedown notices to anyone hosting their code, and it seemed like the game would die.īut maybe not, The ElDewrito mod itself is all open-source, and only the original Halo Online files belong to Microsoft. In a post on 343 Industries blog, the official Halo developers explained the awful situation that although ElDewrito is much beloved by its fans they couldn’t continue development as things stood. It was illegally leaked, and the code still belonged to Microsoft. But there was a flaw: the team that made ElDewrito assumed that the code was open-source since they found it in the wild, but it wasn’t.
With ElDewrito’s help, the game flourished, eventually getting thousands of concurrent players enjoying classic Halo multiplayer gameplay. RELATED: XBOX LIVE GOLD MEMBERS CAN DOWNLOAD HALO 5: GUARDIANS RIGHT NOW They called it ElDewrito, a play on the El Dorado map of Halo legend and the Dorito and Mountain Dew munching gremlin that most people assume such modders to actually be. They nurtured it, added to it, and eventually created a mod that allowed the game to be run on a player’s server instead of Microsoft’s. There, it found a home with a small group of Halo enthusiasts. This looked like it would be the end of the project, except some of the game’s code slipped out and made it into the wild.
Halo Online was supposed to launch in 2016, but after numerous delays on the part of Microsoft, the game’s servers were taken down in December of 2015.
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