Microsoft seemingly fixes matchmaking for 16-year old Shadowrun

Microsoft has seemingly fixed the matchmaking servers for 2007’s Shadowrun on Xbox 360.

The game, servers for which were never officially taken down, was seemingly taken offline thanks to a fix to Xbox Live which fixed older Call of Duty titles. Following this, matchmaking for the title would no longer work. This leads some members of the Shadowrun discord to reach out to Microsoft, who seemingly fixed the problem.

“It actually kinda works better than it has ever worked in the history of the game being up,” said community member wwm0nkey on ResetEra.

The game, which was released in 2007, has recently spawned a discord community of over 2000 members in hopes of resurrecting the early Xbox 360 FPS.

Shadowrun is an FPS developed by FASA Interactive and published by Microsoft Game Studios. It received middling reviews when it was released in 2007, with the Xbox 360 version earning 66/100 on review aggregator Metacritic.

While it’s unclear what was fixed in Xbox Live in order to better support the backward-compatible Call of Duty titles, these older COD titles have a huge problem with hacking and lobbies that can get an account banned from Xbox Live.

There was some speculation ahead of their addition to the backward compatibility program that measures were taken to stop players from being ever matched into those lobbies, but it’s unclear if that came to pass.