In short, Microsoft is dropping support for XBox Live on the original XBox, which among other things means you wont be able to play original XBox games (including Halo 2 most notably) online.

My thoughts on this are that it sucks, but is unavoidable. I'm also kind of glad I'm a PC gamer, as this doesn't really affect me anyway!
This situation does raise some interesting points though, so read on to see how I feel about then... Read more »