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Replacement of Xfire


Sitting-Duc

What communication service should replace Xfire  

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  1. 1. What are the current communication services that you have?

    • Origin
      102
    • Steam
      158
    • Overwolf
      11
    • Raptr
      38
    • Evolve
      12
    • Teamspeak
      187
    • GSC
      8
    • HLSW Chat System
      13
    • Razer Comms
      6
  2. 2. What are the current communication services that you use?

    • Origin
      50
    • Steam
      115
    • Overwolf
      3
    • Raptr
      25
    • Evolve
      6
    • Teamspeak
      177
    • GSC
      5
    • HLSW Chat System
      7
    • Razer Comms
      7
  3. 3. What service do you think should replace Xfire?

    • Origin
      9
    • Steam
      53
    • Overwolf
      2
    • Raptr
      21
    • Evolve
      6
    • Teamspeak
      90
    • GSC
      12
    • HLSW Chat System
      7
    • Razer Comms
      7


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You can select multiple options for the first two questions and a single option for the final

 

This thread is being made to help the senior team gather some data up on communication services you use for gaming and to then assist us in finding a replacement for Xfire. This is quite an important decision for XI as Xfire played an integral part for the community and is one of our membership requirements. Whatever decision is made will replace that requirement and will have to be applied to existing members. 

 

The requirement in question: "Need to have and use either Xfire, Steam or Origin and have our Admins added (for the appropriate games you play)". So for Battlefield that is Origin, Insurgency is Steam and Xfire is the Call of Duty series and Minecraft. We need a replacement that will allow the members of the Call of Duty series to communicate together and that includes non-members. 

 

I have added a poll that will help us determine the replacement, please spend the time to answer it as this will affect the membership requirements. Once we have this information we can better judge the replacement. 

 

If I have missed anything off then please reply so I can add it. 

 

The ideal service would be something that allows us to create a group that would allow members to communicate without being friends. This would be needed to contact admins. Ideally a second group for non-members would be useful as well. Text chat is a must, group text chat would be nice but not essential. Video and screenshots are both on the nice but not essential list also.

 

Thanks, 

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Question: Will the result of this poll be the final selection?

Answer: No, after the seniors look at the results we will make the final decision and inform everyone

 

Question: Why are their options on there that don't meet the replacement requirements

Answer: So that we can get an idea of what people like

 

Question: Teamspeak is already a membership requirement, why is it an option?

Answer: So that we can get an idea of what people like

 

Question: I suggested something and it hasn't been added, why?

Answer: Some suggestions can be ruled out simply by their features

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I have now updated the poll to display the GSC option. 

 

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Why not something like Pidgin, or Trillian?

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i just voted 6 time's for teamspeaks and origin.

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I still think hlsw is also usefull, especially for Call of Dury u can chat there and connect to a server, like it was in xfire

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I have updated with the HLSW Chat System option. Please only select if you use the Chat System within HLSW.

 

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Raptr is nice and snappy but doesn't have the option to create groups. Evolve offers the ability to create groups but I have not tested it thoroughly. Whichever software we use, I am strongly opinionated on its ability to provide an in-game overlay. Steam is Ok, but support for non-steam games is not that great so its hard to qualify it as a universal messaging app. 

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More of those pesky Russians.

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GSC looks very good as far as features common with Xfire

http://www.getgsc.com/gsc/downloads/

 

I have installed it and will be testing

 

loaderxi is my user name

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razer comms is not in the list :(

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u could try this sevice and u can also stream games with this service and win prizes from the games u play it adds points from the games u play and u can use the points to win prizes its fantastic to use try it guys here AMD Gaming Evolved type that in google and it will send u http://www.amd.com/en-us/markets/game/downloads/raptr

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u could try this sevice and u can also stream games with this service and win prizes from the games u play it adds points from the games u play and u can use the points to win prizes its fantastic to use try it guys here AMD Gaming Evolved type that in google and it will send u http://www.amd.com/en-us/markets/game/downloads/raptr

 

It's called Raptr with native support for AMD gfx cards.

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FAQ:  (As I have been asked a few things)

 

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Answer: No, after the seniors look at the results we will make the final decision and inform everyone

 

Question: Why are their options on there that don't meet the replacement requirements

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Question: Teamspeak is already a membership requirement, why is it an option?

Answer: So that we can get an idea of what people like

 

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Answer: Some suggestions can be ruled out simply by their features

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I have added Razer Comms to the options.

 

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its hard to pick one as most of us didnt tested them all.

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Evolve has Groups or Clans like X-Fire did with live chat it's not bad.It relies on donations so it's hard to tell how long it will stay up though.Raptr used X-Fire plug-in and it went down when x-fire went down.

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I only use Steam right now ... 

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I have tested most of  them .GSC, Raptr, Evolve,  Steam , Origin, and overwolf , I can't say I like any  so far , But if I had to pick one ...still thinking about it .

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As long as you can either text chat and voice chat i don't mind which ever is decided

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downside to Teamspeak is getting poked while in game and it minimizes the game.  extremely annoying.  sometimes can't get game to come back up and have to restart

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We already use Teamspeak to chat in..? For other things we can use steam but who was really using Xfire for clan related things anyway?

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hell I don't know..

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