The downfall of xfire :(
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10 Jun 2015, 13:04
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Today is a sad, sad day. I just received this message:
RIP xfire :( Thank you for your service the last 10 years. Will never forget.
2002-2015
RIP xfire :( Thank you for your service the last 10 years. Will never forget.
2002-2015
comment by rise on one of my old journals (IRC vs xfire)
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RIP IN PEACE
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Any proper alternatives?
replace my profile name with yours and enjoy
It kept getting worse and worse the more it got handed off to another company and hasn't been updated in years. I predicted last month that this would be shut down soon.
Wow look at the short notice too, that's crazy. They clearly don't care and haven't cared about xfire in a while. The alternatives trying to be like xfire lack alot of the thing xfire has. I even used the old version because the new one was just so terrible to navigate. They favored UI design instead of functionality like alot of morons (ie: skype).
Evolve looks alright and so does raptr but they don't have support for favorite servers and recent servers. Overall they aren't as good as the original xfire but they would be an okay replacement if they actually worked in ET. The raptr and evolve overlay don't work in ET. The Evolve one works only when you're in the menu, once in a game it stops working. You can't turn off the sound on Raptr only while not in-game. You can either have the sound fully on or fully off. Annoying beep spam when receiving messages. Messages steal the window focus while you're typing in another window. It's basically the end for anything like xfire.
sure, IRC works.. but it has it's lack of features that xfire had mainly including in-game support and some people are too dumb for anyone to want to sit there and explain how to get on IRC.
I knew you were gonna reply to this
good old times ;__;