UPDATE: Within three days more than €400 has been donated surpassing the goal of €300.

Like a lot of old-school Halo players, XBConnect was something special and unique to me. I have fond memories of playing Halo CE 2v2 on-host and abusing the hell out of it on Hang Em’ High with friends, then eventually using the service as a life preserver to get my “Halo 2 fix” when the servers finally went down in April of 2010.

Now XBC needs us. Unfortunately the admins currently don’t have a server and even with one, the cost is just too much for them to continue the service. They are asking for donations to help continue at $412.02, you will also be refunded if they don’t reach their goal.

Below is the admin from XBConnect discussing the issue and the future of the site and software:

“The server I have loaned will be going back to it’s owner. (Many thanks for loaning it so long in the first place my friend!)

As you might have read earlier on in our news updates my old server fried itself. As you may or not know the proceedings from the XBC pro serials and website ads do not weigh up against the website and server total upkeep costs. The surplus of it has been coming from my own pocket these last years. What I’ve been happy to do so! But I simply lack the funds to buy another machine again. With great reluctance I have to announce that XBConnect will have to shutdown it’s services starting 21-12-2013

Feel free to discuss the article on our forums to check out the XBConnect donations page.