XFire dead ?

[Haven]

I considered posting this the other day but ran out of time, an interesting development caught my eye so here's the post

I've noticed that now that we have steam friends and groups very few people are starting up XFire any more. On Steam a few nights ago I could see 46 folks online. On XFire I could see 3. Admittedly Steam does not support all games but it certainly supports most games that folks want to be able to auto-join and follow and seems to have provided all the IM functionality of XFire but without the overly scary statistics.

So in my opinion XFire is dead and whilst it was great back in the day before steam it has unfortunately lost out to recent competition.

The reason I'm posting this today is that I spotted this:
* http://games.slashdot.org/story/10/08/02/2334219/Xfire-Purchased-Team-Leaving

Is the writing on the wall or can the new owners (if the above story is legit?) come back with something worth having ? I personally suspect the deal was done on the depth of XFire's gamer statistics.

 

[elDiablo]

I didn't even install XFire when I reloaded Windows. I just don't care for it now. As you say, Steam Friends does everything I want/need.

 

[waterproofbob]

I still prefer xfire when it comes to favourite servers on games as well as the layout of the friends thing and the interface in general. I use steam friends as well but only because as you say more and more people have moved across to just using that.

Will be interesting to see what happens to xfire over the next few months.

 

[Traxata]

I considered posting this the other day but ran out of time, an interesting development caught my eye so here's the post

I've noticed that now that we have steam friends and groups very few people are starting up XFire any more. On Steam a few nights ago I could see 46 folks online. On XFire I could see 3. Admittedly Steam does not support all games but it certainly supports most games that folks want to be able to auto-join and follow and seems to have provided all the IM functionality of XFire but without the overly scary statistics.

So in my opinion XFire is dead and whilst it was great back in the day before steam it has unfortunately lost out to recent competition.

The reason I'm posting this today is that I spotted this:
* http://games.slashdot.org/story/10/08/02/2334219/Xfire-Purchased-Team-Leaving

Is the writing on the wall or can the new owners (if the above story is legit?) come back with something worth having ? I personally suspect the deal was done on the depth of XFire's gamer statistics.

The story is legit, there was an xfire broadcast message last night about 11PM saying thanks for using it and bye bye.

With the majority of the team gone, xfire could be in a sharp decline, unless of course someone we already know is the anonymous buyer

 

[thatbloke]

When on my own PC, I have XFire, Steam, MSN, IRC, Skype and THN up.

I still prefer XFire myself as opposed to Steam, even though pretty much any of my games are now launched through steam.

Also, Gombol linked this in the shoutbox this morning: http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3180687

The new owners are Titan Gaming

 

[Traxata]

Wikipedia:


"On August 2 2010, Xfire was acquired by Titan Gaming.[12] At 22:16 GMT, the following message was broadcast to Xfire users "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".[13]"

We'll see how this goes.

 

[Ronin Storm]

I didn't even install XFire when I reloaded Windows. I just don't care for it now. As you say, Steam Friends does everything I want/need.

Yeah, this. Haven't used Xfire in many many months.

 

[SgtFury]

Well that explains why I never see anyone on it

 

[Iron_fist]

i personally like the stat tracking better on xfire, plus since the new steam interface is horribly laggy on my machine i tend to use xfire in game rather than steam

 

[Ki!ler-Mk1]

I also really like xfire as for non steam games the overlay doesnt have to be added manually. When i first found xfire it was a great alternative to msn and the only IM i knew of that did not require me to minimize.

 

[PsiSoldier]

I use Xfire for the 'social network manager' and the video & screenshot capturing, and i'll continue doing so until Steam has those features.

 

[Gombol]

I use XFire 'cause..Well. I cba uninstalling it. I found a lag-free Broadcast site, so Using that.

 

[SwampFae]

Still using XFire and will continue to do so as it is relatively slim, functional for the things I need and it has grown on me through the years
Plus it is where I can easilly keep in touch with most people.