Will try to make the friday set ups.

Patience is something I taught myself, so I never know when it's going to run out?

Thanks for giving us Burnout 3 guidance umo!   We needed it! I am not sure how much I will be able to play, but will try to jump on about once a weekish!  

That is great news! I am very happy the friends list is working again!!! YAY!!!!

MS are closing Xbox Live for Xbox Original titles from the 15th of April 2010. I am very sad about this!  Once I am over the shock, I will organise a last hoorah! until then I will be rocking and weeping in a corner!

Someone posted this link over at the Xbox forums as a way to be able to continue to play Original Xbox games online:

http://www.teamxlink.co.uk/

I don't understand how that works, but will ask Xandu later.

Is online supported on the PS2 version?

Yes, it does seem that the PS2 version is still online playable, see this post dated 23/01/10 HERE

do u come online on ps2 or xbox?

But as Xbox Live is closing down for Original Xbox games, I guess after the 15th of April, PS2 will be the only way to play Burnout 3 online.

I personally don't have a PS2 anymore, but might consider picking one up just so I can play Burnout 3 online!!!

Unfortunately, what you said is not true. Sadly, Burnout 3 for Playstation 2 is shutting down, too! http://www.edge-online.com/news/ea-pulls-ps3-360-and-pc-online-servers

I am currently only a Silver member on Xbox live, but I have a voucher. I will be able to play this Thursday, Friday, and/or Saturday at the times listed for those days, but I'd want to get a confirmation from at least three other members of this site by then. (Burnout 3 just isn't that fun with only two people.) If you want to play with me, please respond. (If not enough people respond, I won't even activate the voucher.) My gamertag is MasquedWarrior. Also, I don't have the PS2 version.

I actually plan to play from 7:45 PM GMT-0 through 9:45 PM GMT-0 each day, if possible. So, if you can show up at 9:00 PM as planned in the original post, that's fine; you'll catch the last 45 mins of gameplay.Just make a post in this forum

If you can come any earlier than 7:45, I might be able to play, but please make a post. I plan on refreshing this topic once every fifteen minutes between 7:00 and 8:00 -0 Thursday-Saturday, so regardless of when you plan on playing, give at least thirty minutes notice. If enough people confirm availability at a particular time, I'll post a confirmation. Otherwise, I'll post saying I don't plan to show up at that time.

BTW umopapisdnpuaq, are you Takedown Denied? That user just sent me a friend request, and I accepted.

Either way, thank you for RSVP'ing. But if no one else confirms in the next two hours, I won't activate my voucher, just yet (I'm still silver [edit], BTW.) I hope you're refreshing this thread [edit] repeatedly. I hope I was being clear enough, and didn't inadvertently give you the run-around.

EDIT: Just found out Takedown Denied is NOT umopapisdnpuaq, but I apparently misled that person into thinking I'd activate my voucher, and show up, just now. (I at least explained the situation to that user.) So that you don't waste your time waiting for someone to show up in the Burnout 3 lobby while twiddling your thumbs, wait for me to confirm in this thread, or through XBL, before putting in Burnout 3.

Also, Takedown Denied is playing Burnout 3, right now. So if you have Gold and are viewing this page within a few minutes of my making it, you might want to put in Burnout 3, since he might still be there!

My aim ID is: masquedwarrior

jabber: masquarr@jabber.org

Windows Messenger: masquarr@hotmail.com

Still deciding whether or not I'll activate the voucher/create a new account any time soon.

I just activated a Gold voucher.

Also, I plan on playing tomorrow, and the day after, starting at 4:00 PM GMT-5. (USA Eastern. I'll use the same perspective of time as suggested above, in spite of daylight savings time.) IOW, 2 hours, 45 minutes before this post was updated being 4:00 PM today.

I will try to join in today too, as I don't think I have too much else to do this evening. Hopefully we can get a full room going for a while.

I might be able to play a bit tomorrow too, but Sunday and Monday are out for me.

Tuesday is my Birthday and it would be nice to have a BurnoutAholics party on BO3, although we might be going out for dinner and I could be too tired to play.. we will see.

Then Wednesday is the last day huh? I have a Norwegian language class on Wednesday evening, but as long as I am not too flaked after that I could probably get a few last races in.

I am assuming that the shut down on the 15th means there will be no access on the 15th? But, if the 15th is the last open day I should have a bit more time in the evening to race.

I am still saddened that there will be no more BO3 online. The best times on Xbox Live for me were on BO3!

I also plan on starting at 3:00 PM GMT-5 and stopping at 4:30 next Monday through Thursday. ( http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/time-zone/usa/new-york/new-york-city/in... ) Also, I'm coming today and tomorrow regardless of whether or not anyone posts a confirmation.

I'll have to delay the Monday meeting by a little bit. I probably won't be able to make it until 3:30 or so. If anybody else wants to start a game before I arrive, do so, and make a post to be courteous.

Unfortunately, I'll have to delay tomorrow's game of Burnout 3 until at least 4:30 PM GMT-5, or possibly cancel it entirely. Today at work I found out I have a mandatory meeting tomorrow. It's too bad my current job requires so much flexibility. At least it'll give me motivation to get a better job, even if that is easier said than done, with the state of the economy. Refresh this thread periodically, and/or check your Xbox LIVE inbox, for further updates.

UPDATE: Also, I'm busy after 2:30 PM on Wednesday. I'll have to reschedule it to 1:00 PM GMT-5.

I won't make it to today's Burnout 3 game. If you want to, show up, and see if anyone else comes.

I will be playing for a bit today, although I don't know what times or anything... not now, later  See you there if you can make it!

I just tried  it online and i can't go onto xbox live.
Microsoft made an error and because of that live is still online. (halo 2 can still be played right now). So i guess EA shut off the servers at the planned time, while microsoft didn't. Otherwise there would've been some more time to play.

It was at 9:22 am gmt right? I was making a math test around that time, and because of that i couldn't play the evening before.
Was that new person just a new account or really someoene who had never played it before?

Was that really the last event? Did I really win the last event ever??? How cool is that!

Thank you so much umo and masqued and everyone else who joined us, it was really nice to see Burnout 3 re-activated for the last few days!

Thanks for all the wonderful memories and great friends! Burnout 3, you were very good to me, and I will miss you!

ZombieTron mentioned the possibility (or lack thereof,) of tunneling this game, in order to play it online after the shutdown. Because Burnout 3 has no LAN mode, (system link,) it can't be tunneled, as she noted.

However, something I had brought up a few times during a few games of Burnout 3 during its final few days, the PSP Burnout games both feature LAN play, and XLink Kai supports the PSP. Unfortunately, only certain specific hardware configurations support it: http://teamxlink.co.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=evo7:psp I do not own a PSP, but I have used Xlink Kai with a Playstation 2 and a Gamecube. I am interested in trying to play the PSP Burnout games online using Xlink Kai in the future.