Death of Xfire

smogsy · 28 Sep 2010 at 17:48

to be personally Xfire was pointless

The main features never worked well last time i used them.

Join a Game a friend playing used to not launch the game or join the wrong server!
Chat was very big & ugly
general UI was horrid to use.
Most people never used it
Video wasnt there when i used it
Screenshots - any decent game has this now.

Dan.m · 28 Sep 2010 at 19:05

If im on my Pc im on Xfire.

a lot of my friends use xfire because they play free games or non-steam games.

-Aura- · 28 Sep 2010 at 20:52

"Disallowed Program/Driver:125141"

One good enough reason not to use Steam overlay on a PB streaming server. What a PITA.

ShaolinDreams · 29 Sep 2010 at 02:36

craig3000 said:
250k v 2Mil+ on Steam during peak hours, it is dead anybody that can't admit it is deluded.

still quarter of a million is hardly dead.. anyone who says otherwise is a moron (oooo i like this game)

tals · 29 Sep 2010 at 07:53

I'm still with xfire, hoping that it will stay but a shame that they are taking so long to add civ 5 and F1 into the supported list.

Regarding Raptr - I was using this but when I realised it was taking 100mb of memory out it went. For those with memory rich machines 4gb+ that's probably not an issue but for me 100mb is way to much for a messenger app.

Steam for friends list is very good - unbeatable in fact, however it doesn't have support for MSN, Screenshots, Clock in display, video and other features that keep xfire on my desktop.

Retromatic · 29 Sep 2010 at 08:29

smogsy said:
to be personally Xfire was pointless

The main features never worked well last time i used them.

Join a Game a friend playing used to not launch the game or join the wrong server!
Chat was very big & ugly
general UI was horrid to use.
Most people never used it
Video wasnt there when i used it
Screenshots - any decent game has this now.

Generally agree here, I didn't find it all that great the times I used it, always preferred Steam.

Smalltownboy · 29 Sep 2010 at 19:52

Used X -Fire for years,then decided to take the plunge and go for Raptr. It'll even pull your X-fire hours over. (If you like logging the hours played)
You can even add multiple accounts for Xbox, Playstation,Steam,Facebook all in one handy package for ease of use

Edinho · 29 Sep 2010 at 20:41

I'm sad its starting to go down hill but was predictable when they sold it. I like xfire and by the looks of it on these forums i'm the only one who hates steam with a passion.

craig3000 · 29 Sep 2010 at 21:01

ShaolinDreams said:
still quarter of a million is hardly dead.. anyone who says otherwise is a moron (oooo i like this game)

OK so the OP 'is dead' is not true but it's hardly expanding and its death is just round the corner. Some newer PC gamers don't even know what xfire is at all they might think your talking about ati crossfire

if you mention Steam however they most certainly do even console gamers know what Steam is.

It's just not current anymore and it's been that way for a while now.

Bgr said:
because you need steam open to play games? :S

And?? You don't sign up to xfire to 'be offline' :rolleyes:

Raptr's awful why would I wana sign into to anything and everything. Just adding further complication to PC gaming.

tals · 29 Sep 2010 at 21:16

Smalltownboy said:
Used X -Fire for years,then decided to take the plunge and go for Raptr. It'll even pull your X-fire hours over. (If you like logging the hours played)
You can even add multiple accounts for Xbox, Playstation,Steam,Facebook all in one handy package for ease of use

Other than the social networking side I don't 'get' raptr. But take a look at that memory usage and say it's worth having

iviv · 30 Sep 2010 at 11:58

tals said:
Other than the social networking side I don't 'get' raptr. But take a look at that memory usage and say it's worth having

Currently on 74Mb, and I'm pretty sure that is a fair ammount more than Xfire, but then again I have 4Gb of ram, and a single process can only use 2Gb of that, so its not a huge issue, and I'm willing to sacrifice some system memory in order for it to work with new games. I mean, you can't get things like Xfire in-game for games it can't detect, rendering it fairly pointless in that respect, no?

tals · 30 Sep 2010 at 13:33

I'm pretty sure that the forums advise how to add any of the new set of games, but i'd agree unless they sort that out then it is less useful. When I had a look last time Raptr seemed to support the games I play less well. So for example League of Legends didn't have an ingame option whereas Xfire did. Not sure how normal that was. It also didn't do screenshots or videos, both of which I use. I know anyone can do a screenshot but it's the hosting and handling that xfire does which works so well.

I also use xfire to tie in my other connections/raptr does this as well but 74mb on a 2gb machine is too much - does seem very fat for a messenger client.

iviv · 30 Sep 2010 at 20:26

craig3000 said:
Raptr's awful why would I wana sign into to anything and everything. Just adding further complication to PC gaming.

Xfire does the same thing now, has for a while. Its more for the fact that it means you can chat with friends on AIM/MSN while gaming, much the same as you can chat with them in Steam chat, just this doesn't require them to install other clients.