

While we are humbled and inspired to see the amount of passion poured into this project, the fact remains that it's built upon Microsoft-owned assets that were never lawfully released or authorized for this purpose. In a post on Halo Waypoint, 343 talked about the move to shut down the mod openly, saying that while they appreciate the work and effort of the modders, their hands are legally tied. Perhaps unsurprisingly then, this attention didn't go unnoticed by Microsoft and the company has moved to close down the game.

It caught a decent amount of traction and has proved decently popular in the last few days. That noise started due to a fan mod based on the code called ElDewrito, which put the game in a starved Halo fanbase on PC. Over the last week or so, there has been a lot of talk surrounding Halo Online, which is pretty surprising due to the game being a discontinued online-only offshoot of Halo 3 that was only meant to exist in the Russian market.
