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 Post subject: XFire bought by new owners?
PostPosted: August 2nd, 2010, 3:18 pm 
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I was just on XFire and got this message:

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

Anymore news that you know?
How will this change XFire?

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PostPosted: August 2nd, 2010, 3:18 pm 
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 Post subject: Re: XFire bought by new owners?
PostPosted: August 2nd, 2010, 3:35 pm 
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If you try to go to the xfire website this will come up:
xfire wrote:
The Xfire website is currently down.
We expect service to return shortly.
Thank you for your devotion and patience.

So I ask the same question: What happens now?

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 Post subject: Re: XFire bought by new owners?
PostPosted: August 2nd, 2010, 4:36 pm 
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Here is an actual picture of the broadcast.
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 Post subject: Re: XFire bought by new owners?
PostPosted: August 2nd, 2010, 4:59 pm 
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Well, I don't use it much (in fact, I found out it bugs up the original Starcraft if you try to play with it running in the background), but I'm not sure what to think. On the one hand, you are losing a team of great people who have worked years on it. You are also losing the original owners and whatever ideas they may have had for the application. Hope nothing too dramatic comes about from this. :|

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 Post subject: Re: XFire bought by new owners?
PostPosted: August 3rd, 2010, 11:02 am 
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Understand that Viacom bought Xfire long ago thinking it'd make them A lot o money and..well it hasn't.

Anywho Titan gaming has bought it. Who are they? Not the foggyest. I'd never even heard of them and i couldn't even find a wiki page on them but this is there site;

http://titanplatform.com/

Seems they now think they can make a lot o money and i suspect they wont. Add in that the entire Xfire team has up and left and it's probably going to slowly die from this point onwards unless titan handle it very very carefully.

Don't care myself, i have xfire but most of the features steam does now anyway.

edit: And there website sucks too. If i click about at the bottom of the page it just brings me to the main page..if i click it at the top i get to the actual page i want.

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 Post subject: Re: XFire bought by new owners?
PostPosted: August 4th, 2010, 12:23 am 
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honestly i never use xfire, so this really doesn't affect me. lets see what happens

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 Post subject: Re: XFire bought by new owners?
PostPosted: August 4th, 2010, 12:35 am 
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Ive tried xfire only because i downloaded the game crossfire. Never played it again.

Cheers, dafin0 :lol:

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