XFire sold

craig3000 · 3 Aug 2010 at 11:11

iviv said:
http://titanplatform.com/

They bought it, it appears.

pah so some sort of gaming tournament thing where companies can advertise I smell fail. Most people will dump xfire I presume.

iviv · 3 Aug 2010 at 11:21

marc512 said:
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)

That said, it took them over 2 years and they still haven't fixed the Wsock32.dll errors caused by running games protected by a certain version of Securom (Including Mass Effect, Crysis and Neverwinter Nights 2) on a 64-bit operating system while Xfire was running.

And also, looking at the Titan Gaming page, one of their news things is that they managed to raise $1M. Considering Viacom bought it for $100M, I think they coud have made a pretty substantial loss there.

Gimpymoo · 3 Aug 2010 at 11:36

Klo said:
especially now tabs have been introduced in the beta.

WOW

(Installs BETA).

Looks like the new owners are going to use it sell games, similiar to how Steam works I would imagine.

Klo · 3 Aug 2010 at 11:50

Gimpymoo said:
WOW

(Installs BETA).

Looks like the new owners are going to use it sell games, similiar to how Steam works I would imagine.

It makes all the different dammit!

mast3r · 3 Aug 2010 at 11:51

i wonder if that was a plug to say the Orig team of dev's will be creating a new program with a similar functionality in mind?

Doonhamer · 3 Aug 2010 at 11:51

Gornall said:
Reminds me of the death of All Seeing EyE

Hope it don't go the same way.

Been away from pc gaming for a few years but used to love ASE!! Especially the auto-join feature where if you clicked to join a server and it was full ASE would keep checking for you and then join as soon as a space opened. Was worth using ASE just for that. Is there current game browsers that offer the auto-join functionality these days?

Gimpymoo · 3 Aug 2010 at 11:55

Steam does for games which use Steamworks for server handling.

Final8y · 3 Aug 2010 at 15:56

craig3000 said:
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.

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.

That is a big assumption that everyone is only going to buy from steam in the future & that would be bad for price competition.

Xfire was even capable of tracking some web-browser based games & i like the live broadcast feature.

AMG · 3 Aug 2010 at 16:07

I think you can buy games from xfire anyway by direct2 drive or something ( as I noticed the game pops up with the price etc)

Hank_Marvin · 3 Aug 2010 at 17:37

Used xfire since release pretty much and its full with lots of contacts from my days of running clans etc, would be very sad if it changed a lot for the worse.

Don't think i'd like to replace it with steam, it's good for friends you play with a lot for joining their games but for me it's way too chunky and needs to support every game out before it can be used.

Not done any clan match organising in about a year but i bet on clanbase/ED and IRC people still swap xfire names to sort stuff out.

Long Live Xfire

craig3000 · 3 Aug 2010 at 17:54

Hank_Marvin said:
Used xfire since release pretty much and its full with lots of contacts from my days of running clans etc, would be very sad if it changed a lot for the worse.

Don't think i'd like to replace it with steam, it's good for friends you play with a lot for joining their games but for me it's way too chunky and needs to support every game out before it can be used.

Not done any clan match organising in about a year but i bet on clanbase/ED and IRC people still swap xfire names to sort stuff out.

Long Live Xfire

How is steam chunky :confused:

Think someones afraid to change

as for supporting games, no it only directly supports games that are bought through steam OR using steamworks HOWEVER you can add 99% of games as a non-steam game and your friends can see what you are playing and you get the in-game UI.

The same can't be said for Xfire, not all games are supported, some take ages to be supported and DX10/DX11 were always a struggle to be supported and most of the time never were.

I think xfire was dead before the buyout anyway, checking the stats in the evening Xfire had 250k users online whereas Steam had over 2 million. The titan company seems to focus on some sort of gaming tournaments and advertising mixed together. Being a small company as it is, with the likes of MLG and the fact clans aren't what they used to be I can only see it's slow death.

Final8y · 3 Aug 2010 at 18:30

craig3000 said:
How is steam chunky Think someones afraid to change as for supporting games, no it only directly supports games that are bought through steam OR using steamworks HOWEVER you can add 99% of games as a non-steam game and your friends can see what you are playing and you get the in-game UI.

The same can't be said for Xfire, not all games are supported, some take ages to be supported and DX10/DX11 were always a struggle to be supported and most of the time never were.

I think xfire was dead before the buyout anyway, checking the stats in the evening Xfire had 250k users online whereas Steam had over 2 million. The titan company seems to focus on some sort of gaming tournaments and advertising mixed together. Being a small company as it is, with the likes of MLG and the fact clans aren't what they used to be I can only see it's slow death.

The difference is that you cant play a steam bought game without steam activated where as xfire you don't need to have it running & most of my friends use xfire but they don't always have it running while playing a game, with steam you have no choice..

craig3000 · 3 Aug 2010 at 19:08

Final8y said:
The difference is that you cant play a steam bought game without steam activated where as xfire you don't need to have it running & most of my friends use xfire but they don't always have it running while playing a game, with steam you have no choice..

Why wouldn't you want steam running :confused:

, P.S DRM it's a great solution

Final8y · 3 Aug 2010 at 19:14

craig3000 said:
Why wouldn't you want steam running , P.S DRM it's a great solution

Its not about not wanting anything running its about sometimes people are lazy to start xfire.

so the xfire statics V steam are null in that sense

craig3000 · 4 Aug 2010 at 14:24

The general section of the forums has been overrun with 13-17 yr olds biatching about each other :rolleyes:

Final8y · 4 Aug 2010 at 17:40

craig3000 said:
The general section of the forums has been overrun with 13-17 yr olds biatching about each other

What has that got to do with this thread ?

craig3000 · 4 Aug 2010 at 18:24

Final8y said:
What has that got to do with this thread ?

Well the Xfire Forums are part of Xfire :confused:

Final8y · 4 Aug 2010 at 18:25

craig3000 said:
Well the Xfire Forums are part of Xfire

LOL don't go there then, i never do.