XFire sold

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Eclectic

Eclectic

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Xfire was bought by new owners today. Most of the team that has built Xfire over the last six years is leaving. We enjoyed working for you for the last 127 releases and wish we could stay to create the next 127. Good bye, good luck, and game on. --- The Xfire Team


Mon Aug 02 23:16:02 2010

Damnit, anyone know anymore about this. Im sure thats the end of an era, it will undoubtedly be riddled with rubbish now and become extremely bloated, like all the other great progs come to pass.

Its great the Xfire team have prabably seen some nice wedge for the efforts. But the fact that most of the devs are leaving sets alarm bells off :/
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oooh. I was just thinking about what a good product it was today, although steam chat etc seem to be making inroads.
 
I only redownloaded it 15 minutes ago after not using it a year and that popped up, good timing i say :p
 
Its a shame because its a great free piece of software which I use daily. I hope this doesn't mean adverts or even closing them down. Even so, the main developers have gone!

Facts
Older gamers will know that Viacom had already owned Xfire for the past 4 years (bought out for $102million in 2006), which made it part of its MTV Networks. Under the arm of MTV is also GameTrailers.com, Comedy Central's MotherLoad, and Neopets. This is what Tom Freston (Viacom president and CEO) said: "Xfire is far and away the leading PC gaming communications and community platform, has outstanding management, and is a perfect fit with our growing digital businesses at MTV Networks,"

The future
So the question now is, what are the plans under the new owners if the mighty Viacom sold them, and was it sold for a loss? If so, then XFire hasn't reached its potential, or the integration at MTV Networks didn't work as planned into their model.

Wikipedia has this entry (it's still unofficial): "On August 2nd 2010, Xfire changed ownership to an undisclosed company."
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xfire

Alternatives to XFire
I know we have the obvious Steam; but as an alternative software solution - incase XFire does go down - post your favourite game-tracking software which has to include a Friends List. The one I've been enjoying using since Beta is the simple Raptr.
- http://raptr.com/

Keep supporting the free version of XFire. If anything does change that negatively affects the way you use this app, then I'm sure we can get together and let our feelings known and they will listen. After all, they need us.
 
FMTopfan said:
Its a shame because its a great free piece of software which I use daily. I hope this doesn't mean adverts or even closing them down. Even so, the main developers have gone!

Facts
Older gamers will know that Viacom had already owned Xfire for the past 4 years (bought out for $102million in 2006), which made it part of its MTV Networks. Under the arm of MTV is also GameTrailers.com, Comedy Central's MotherLoad, and Neopets. This is what Tom Freston (Viacom president and CEO) said: "Xfire is far and away the leading PC gaming communications and community platform, has outstanding management, and is a perfect fit with our growing digital businesses at MTV Networks,"

The future
So the question now is, what are the plans under the new owners if the mighty Viacom sold them, and was it sold for a loss? If so, then XFire hasn't reached its potential, or the integration at MTV Networks didn't work as planned into their model.

Wikipedia has this entry (it's still unofficial): "On August 2nd 2010, Xfire changed ownership to an undisclosed company."
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xfire

Alternatives to XFire
I know we have the obvious Steam; but as an alternative software solution - incase XFire does go down - post your favourite game-tracking software which has to include a Friends List. The one I've been enjoying using since Beta is the simple Raptr.
- http://raptr.com/

Keep supporting the free version of XFire. If anything does change that negatively affects the way you use this app, then I'm sure we can get together and let our feelings known and they will listen. After all, they need us.
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A nice plea, but Steam in my opinion is better for chat, especially now tabs have been introduced in the beta.
 
Klo said:
A nice plea, but Steam in my opinion is better for chat, especially now tabs have been introduced in the beta.
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But it only tracks stream bought games & you can only join friends in games with steam bought games are the 2 things that need to be addressed.
 
http://www.fudzilla.com/home/news/latest/xfire-apparently-has-been-sold

Up on Fudzilla now, this is so funny I said in a post just the other day that xfire is nearly dead haha, IMO Steam is the way to go, in fact if I had my way it would be the standard for the PC platform to make it stronger against the likes on the consoles. Now all we have to do is tell Microsoft to GTFO with GFWL. Also raptr sucks balls.

I used to use xfire in the beginning but meh it wasn't getting updated enough, the fact that not all games even worked especially DX10/11 games was an annoyance, steam is much more fluid and modern and I finally got rid of xfire just the other week.

Final8y said:
But it only tracks stream bought games & you can only join friends in games with steam bought games are the 2 things that need to be addressed.
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Well pretty much every game is available on steam now and steamworks is only going to keep growing so it's only a matter of time.
 
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iv used xfire since beta stages. Im sad to see these guys go. They put so much effort into getting xfire to where it is now.

If xfire dies from today on ill use steam which i hate. (just the chat)
 
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