Did Xfire Just Sell Out?

posted on May 9th, 2006, 3:17 am

http://www.xfire.com/cms/xf_acquisition

Did 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.

posted on May 9th, 2006, 9:53 am

http://www.xfire.com/cms/xf_acquisition

Did 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

posted on May 9th, 2006, 5:30 pm

so was mtv, vh1 etc they managed to controll that and I will stop using xfire if they do inc any

posted on May 10th, 2006, 12:35 am

same here.

posted on May 30th, 2006, 6:51 pm

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

posted on June 9th, 2006, 12:07 am

Wuhoo they just added armada 2 to the list of games xfire reconizes in their latest up date.

posted on June 9th, 2006, 6:55 pm

can u use FO with xfire?

posted on June 15th, 2006, 7:32 am

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.

posted on June 15th, 2006, 7:41 am

[4839]
LongName=Star Trek Armada II: Fleet Operations
ShortName=FO b2
LauncherDirKey=HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREActivisionStar Trek Armada II Fleet OperationsInstDir
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.

posted on June 15th, 2006, 1:35 pm

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

posted on June 15th, 2006, 6:20 pm

on the end