Halo Online is een Free to Play versie van de bekende Halo Multiplayer, die exclusief alleen in Rusland zal verschijnen. Maar daar van is ondertussen *verassing* een vroege beta versie van op het grote boze internet gelekt en zijn mensen hier mee aan de slag gegaan en hebben een loader gemaakt, aanpassingen zodat het speelbaar is. Alleen Microsoft is hier niet blij mee en is begonnen met het uitdelen van Copyright claims waar door alle gemaakte content van servers verwijderd moeten worden. Een beetje dubieus naar mijn smaak, want de grote vraag hier is: Waarom alleen in Rusland en niet wereldwijd?? Ik kan er geld op inzetten dat veel Halo fans nu gebruik gaan maken van proxies en VPN Tunnels om te kunnen spelen.
While the announcement was welcomed by PC gamers everywhere, not all had reason to celebrate. Due to launch later in the spring, Halo Online is destined to be restricted to players in Russia only, at least for the foreseeable future.
"Right now our focus is on learning as much as we can from the closed beta period in Russia. Theoretically, any expansion outside of Russia would have to go through region-specific changes to address player expectations," the company said.
With the launcher undergoing development via Github, things were progressing smoothly. Until yesterday that is, when Microsoft rolled out the big guns and stopped the project in its tracks.
"We have received information that the domain listed above, which appears to be on servers under your control, is offering unlicensed copies of, or is engaged in other unauthorized activities relating to, copyrighted works published by Microsoft," the company wrote in a DMCA notice to Github.
While that statement is almost certainly accurate, the notice from Microsoft is somewhat confusing in that it refers to ElDorito being the company's property.
"The above copyright work(s) [ElDorito] is being made available for copying, through downloading, at the above location without authorization from the copyright owner or exclusive licensee," the company adds.
