ChknFngr Posted August 2, 2010 Member ID: 922 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 72 Topic Count: 149 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 3472 Content Per Day: 0.66 Reputation: 1286 Achievement Points: 23224 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 12/23/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: November 16, 2021 Birthday: 10/01/1975 Share Posted August 2, 2010 just read this in my XFire today: 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 just hope the new owners, whoever they are, wont screw everything :S Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
AyeAyeRon Posted August 2, 2010 Member ID: 1371 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 18 Topic Count: 348 Topics Per Day: 0.07 Content Count: 1906 Content Per Day: 0.37 Reputation: 585 Achievement Points: 14042 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 04/26/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: December 2, 2018 Birthday: 03/01/1990 Share Posted August 2, 2010 O.O Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Rascal Posted August 2, 2010 Member ID: 1450 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 25 Topic Count: 49 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 1210 Content Per Day: 0.24 Reputation: 469 Achievement Points: 7995 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 3 Joined: 05/27/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: Friday at 07:32 PM Birthday: 06/02/1997 Device: Linux Share Posted August 2, 2010 I read that too, sure hope they aren't gonna screw anything up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Ph4nt0m Posted August 3, 2010 Member ID: 1 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 39 Topic Count: 162 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 1909 Content Per Day: 0.42 Reputation: 121 Achievement Points: 11489 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 12/06/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 4, 2020 Birthday: 06/28/1975 Share Posted August 3, 2010 If the original dev team are leaving then you can pretty much bet your life on it that it'll get screwed up, maybe it's time for any of us code monkeys out there to get busy building a XIFire ? .. come on you coders, i know theres more than just me out there ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meatpuppet Posted August 3, 2010 Member ID: 749 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 0 Topic Count: 9 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 31 Content Per Day: 0.01 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 245 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 11/15/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: Never Birthday: 01/01/1970 Share Posted August 3, 2010 Or perhaps they will work on making it better, like queueing up busy servers, adding personal and/or clan passwords to join private slots, giving the ability to turn off auto scan so it won't delay starting for 20 seconds every startup, perhaps a better filtering system for server searches, and a more friendly server search window. That's my wish list, I like the application but it's got some pretty big holes. Without the friends list the single best software out there before that for server searches was the All Seeing Eye. Coincidentally that was bought by AOL and since that it's been completly trashed. SIGH. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChknFngr Posted August 3, 2010 Member ID: 922 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 72 Topic Count: 149 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 3472 Content Per Day: 0.66 Reputation: 1286 Achievement Points: 23224 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 12/23/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: November 16, 2021 Birthday: 10/01/1975 Author Share Posted August 3, 2010 ph4nt0m If the original dev team are leaving then you can pretty much bet your life on it that it'll get screwed up, maybe it's time for any of us code monkeys out there to get busy building a XIFire ? .. come on you coders, i know theres more than just me out there ... i wanna be part of that build the code, i design it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
RickJames Posted August 3, 2010 Member ID: 58 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 7 Topic Count: 370 Topics Per Day: 0.07 Content Count: 2552 Content Per Day: 0.48 Reputation: 3 Achievement Points: 16507 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/01/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: February 26, 2012 Birthday: 08/27/1975 Share Posted August 3, 2010 Some of the code I am using for a new program I am creating utilizes some similar code from an IM program. We shall see what goes on with xfire. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hairclog Posted August 3, 2010 Member ID: 144 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 0 Topic Count: 7 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 33 Content Per Day: 0.01 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 235 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: Never Birthday: 07/23/1993 Share Posted August 3, 2010 MTV Networks sells off Xfire gamer chat business to Titan Gaming August 2, 2010 | Dean Takahashi Add a Comment MTV Networks has sold off its Xfire gamer chat business, according to an announcement on the Xfire site. That’s an interesting twist, considering Viacom, the parent of MTV, bought Xfire in 2006 for $102 million. Titan Gaming announced this evening that it purchased Xfire for an undisclosed price. The purchase price has to be low, since Titan has raised only $1.3 million to date. The company plans to use Xfire to innovate in the gaming space. Titan itself runs a tournament games business. But Xfire’s current services will be uninterrupted, said John Maffei, chief executive of Titan Gaming, in a statement. The message posted on the Xfire web site says, “Xfire has been purchased by another company. Most of the team that has brought you Xfire for the last 6 years is leaving, including me. We’ve enjoyed our time and I personally am sad that I was only able to do 127 releases. Good bye and game on! –Chris.” It’s not clear who the buyer is yet. The Xfire site says it has more than 16.7 million registered users who use its chat service, which allows gamers to see what their friends are playing and to join them in an online multiplayer match simply by clicking on their names. Xfire was founded as Ultimate Arena in 2002 by Dennis “Thresh” Fong, a former professional game player who turned entrepreneur. He was joined by serial entrepreneur Mike Cassidy and David Lawee, now a Google executive. Xfire started as a tournament game site where players could bet real money against each other. But the business that took off was an instant messenger chat service for gamers. That enabled Xfire to grow quickly, but now it seems that Viacom has tired of the business. Fong, meanwhile, went on to create Raptr, the social network for gamers that is now one of Xfire’s competitors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChknFngr Posted August 3, 2010 Member ID: 922 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 72 Topic Count: 149 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 3472 Content Per Day: 0.66 Reputation: 1286 Achievement Points: 23224 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 12/23/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: November 16, 2021 Birthday: 10/01/1975 Author Share Posted August 3, 2010 what about raptr ? anyone use this ? how is it ? if its good enough and if things goes bad with xfire, maybe we could move there ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Dark Asylumn Posted August 3, 2010 Member ID: 809 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 41 Topic Count: 251 Topics Per Day: 0.05 Content Count: 2835 Content Per Day: 0.54 Reputation: 1016 Achievement Points: 20374 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 11/29/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: 2 hours ago Birthday: 06/25/1979 Device: Windows Share Posted August 3, 2010 First I have ever heard of it but if xfire claims it IS a competitor might be worth researching. and if fong designed it it should be basically the same Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
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