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I had forgotten it until this post.
I dont know what this is
For those that didn’t use it, Xfire was basically a combination of messenger 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
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.
There are some archives of the service here -
https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Xfire
Supposedly most of the videos, and 20% of the screenshots? I’m not sure if there’s a way to easily search the archive contents, rather than download.
Holy shit. Just found my profile that had stuff there like bio, pc specs and games/hours from when I was 14… I’m nearly 32 now. Wild …
Xfire to Discord: I am your Father
Grandfather? Wasnt Mumble the in-between?
Man I’d forgotten about this.
This and vent were the first things I loaded when gaming (along with frapps).
Unregistered Hypercam 2
GameSpy man. Ftw.
I used it every day. RIP my gametime statistics for BF2.
If flying a fighter jet in real life was just like flying one in BF2, I’d have a very valuable life skill.
Same, but with helicopters.
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.
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.
Yes! A lot of time spent using that, just recently tried to remember its name. Good times…
My childhood!
Reminds me of the all seeying eye
Bring it back :(
