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For those that didn't use it, Xfire was basically a combination of messenger, voice chat, and a server browser for games back in the day.
As far as I know, it was also one of the earliest ways to stream your gameplay for others to watch. I remember trying it out years before Twitch was around.
It was pretty much used the way people use Discord with a group of friends today. It didn't have servers or anything like that, but you could hop on a call with a couple of buds and play games together.
I played a lot of Halo Custom Edition over Xfire back in the day...
It also made it really easy to join your friends games before everything was on steam.
Hell yeah. Xfire, Counter Strike Source, and Toonami made up the bulk of my childhood. I hardly hear it talked about anymore
Man I'd forgotten about this.
This and vent were the first things I loaded when gaming (along with frapps).
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This brought back memories I didn't know I had. Gosh I miss those days, I wish I had downloaded all the clips I recorded before it died. I'm sad now.
Xfire to Discord: I am your Father
Grandfather? Wasnt Mumble the in-between?
ventrilo: am I a joke to you
TeamSpeak ftw
GameSpy man. Ftw.
The gametime stats in Xfire were my first clue that I maybe needed to get off the PC once in a while and, as the kids say these days, touch grass.
Was still kinda proud of myself though. Albeit a sort of shameful pride.
Oh god. I must have had 2000 hours logged on jedi academy with xfire. Brings back memories.
How about even older: HEAT (HEAT.net)? https://web.archive.org/web/19970601031026/http://www.heat.net/
I had forgotten it until this post.
This was the best way to game with and chat with friends. I miss those days.
Wow this brought back memories of making bank in clan COD tourneys(=USA=). It was too easy back then, now gamers practice 6 hours a day.
Didn't they have custom skins because I remember messing around with that and rocking some cool skins...?
I remember disliking it. I don't remember why
Yeah I think I ended up trying it an Ventrillo, and I preferred the latter.
My childhood!
A blast from the past. Totally forgot about it existing until this post.
I was an mplayer user. They had plenty of quake team fortress servers.
Also, GameSpy arcade. My parents had McAfee blocking the internet, because the literal first thing I did was save porn to "My Pictures" directory. But it only blocked the browsers. So I used the built in web browser in GameSpy to download Star Wars BF2 mods, amongst other things
Xfire was my bastion with my totally legit copy of Call of Duty 4.
CoD4 was fireee. Dude, CoDJump, Zombie mod, and on top of it all promod to make the game competitive.
Oh yea xfire was the software to have. I streamed myself doing full playthrough of bioshock and remember even getting quite a few viewers. Good times.
Bring it back :(
Oh, I remember. Some of the games I played a lot would just crash if I had Xfire running in the background.
I used this daily, had so many hours logged pre getting everything on steam. Was actually just talking about it not that long ago, was such a big part of my highschool years.
I remember i had an account with my real name on it. I lost the password so my name was forever associated with an Xfire account i created as an edgy 14 year old. I msged support and they were like the most stereotypical americans ever lol "We cant verify if that ID is valid bc you arent from the USA but we will delete it as a curtesy"
Thank god for the GPDR, this interaction would go a bit different today lol