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http://www.xfire.com/cms/xf_acquisitionDid Xfire just sell out? That is a question I have been asking myself ever since I found out about Viacom buying Xfire. Xfire who all of you are familar with as a gamers chat program was an independent company run by gamers for gamers. Now it has been baught by media giant MTV (Who's owner is Viacom). How will this affect us as gamers in our quest for frag glory? Will MTV poison the game industry and gamers alike as they have so done to the music industry and the music listening youth? This could very well mean the slow decent into a gaming world in which music took a turn (anyone remember the Backstreet Boys, and NSYNC?). I sure hope the creative controll of the Xfire team is not poisoned by MTV. P.S. If they try and include spyware in Xfire, EVER! I will personaly gather a team to write an open source program of simmilar design.
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« Reply #1 on: May 09, 2006, 10:53:24 AM » |
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http://www.xfire.com/cms/xf_acquisitionDid Xfire just sell out? That is a question I have been asking myself ever since I found out about Viacom buying Xfire. Xfire who all of you are familar with as a gamers chat program was an independent company run by gamers for gamers. Now it has been baught by media giant MTV (Who's owner is Viacom). How will this affect us as gamers in our quest for frag glory? Will MTV poison the game industry and gamers alike as they have so done to the music industry and the music listening youth? This could very well mean the slow decent into a gaming world in which music took a turn (anyone remember the Backstreet Boys, and NSYNC?). I sure hope the creative controll of the Xfire team is not poisoned by MTV. P.S. If they try and include spyware in Xfire, EVER! I will personaly gather a team to write an open source program of simmilar design. They wont do anything to xfire, its too widely used IMO. Just relax man  |
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« Reply #2 on: May 09, 2006, 06:30:46 PM » |
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so was mtv, vh1 etc they managed to controll that and I will stop using xfire if they do inc any
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« Reply #3 on: May 10, 2006, 01:35:56 AM » |
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same here.
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« Reply #4 on: May 30, 2006, 07:51:49 PM » |
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P.S. If they try and include spyware in Xfire, EVER! I will personaly gather a team to write an open source program of simmilar design. i'm with you if that dreadfull day comes |
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« Reply #5 on: June 09, 2006, 01:07:38 AM » |
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Wuhoo they just added armada 2 to the list of games xfire reconizes in their latest up date.
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« Reply #6 on: June 09, 2006, 07:55:43 PM » |
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can u use FO with xfire?
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« Reply #7 on: June 15, 2006, 08:32:10 AM » |
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Nope, well you could if one of us was not too lazy to make FO complatible. A2 support doesnt meen FO support cuz FO usses a different .exe file.
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« Reply #8 on: June 15, 2006, 08:41:33 AM » |
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[4839]
LongName=Star Trek Armada II: Fleet Operations
ShortName=FO b2
LauncherDirKey=HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Activision\Star Trek Armada II Fleet Operations\InstDir
LauncherExe=FleetOps.exe
Launch=%UA_LAUNCHER_EXE_PATH% %UA_LAUNCHER_EXTRA_ARGS% %UA_LAUNCHER_NETWORK_ARGS%
Now I dont give any guarantees on working, and only people who have also added this to the end of there xfire_games.ini will be able to use it, and it will need to be changed/re-added with every update of xfire.
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« Reply #9 on: June 15, 2006, 02:35:29 PM » |
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nice one cts i'll give it a go when i get xfire again, do i just add it to the end of the ini file, just copy n paste it like? if anyone else wants to try it i'll have a match, i havent played against real players so it sudnt be a long game lol
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« Reply #10 on: June 15, 2006, 07:20:52 PM » |
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on the end
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