Xfire

[Infinite]

System Broadcast:
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


Mon Aug 02 18:16:13 2010

I hope they don't fuck it over.

[Pedsdude]

Indeed.

[Soviet]

I hope they do mess it up as I want Steam to become the new standard gamer networking program, however I don't think they will. Besides failing at adding support for new games I don't really see how they could mess it up.

[Pedsdude]

I hate Steam.

[Soviet]

Which part, the constant deals on games, global overlay support, extensive community and profile options, or its stability? With exclusion of small amounts of downtime for updates, and periodic instability after a major update, Steam does everything xfire does and a lot more.

[Infinite]

Which part, the constant deals on games, global overlay support, extensive community and profile options, or its stability? With exclusion of small amounts of downtime for updates, and periodic instability after a major update, Steam does everything xfire does and a lot more.

I love Steam for it's excellent deals along with various other features, but I do not like it's overlay function over Xfire's. Perhaps that is because I've been using Xfire longer, but I personally like their's to a greater extent than Steam's. The general feel to the software is smoother to me. I could probably find a list of logical arguments to find in order to establish my opinion in a greater light, but as for now: XFIRE FTW.

[Hoogie]

I hate Steam.

[[SoE]_Zaitsev]

How the fuck is it even POSSIBLE to hate Steam ?

But for in-game, I do prefer xfire. But they're 2 different kind of things so can't really compare.

[Pedsdude]

Which part, the constant deals on games, global overlay support, extensive community and profile options, or its stability? With exclusion of small amounts of downtime for updates, and periodic instability after a major update, Steam does everything xfire does and a lot more.

I hate it as a program. Sure, I very much like the deals they do for games, but it's only really the program itself that I dislike.

I hate how it forces you to look at people's profiles in its own annoying browers.
I don't like the sizing of many of the things (e.g. friends list).
I don't like how it doesn't have a favourites server list like Xfire.
I don't like how it takes much longer to load than Xfire, and often comes up with bullshit connection issue problems.

It does have things that Xfire does, but the vast majority of them I prefer the way Xfire does it.

[Soviet]

I hate how it forces you to look at people's profiles in its own annoying browers.

https://steamcommunity.com/

I don't like the sizing of many of the things (e.g. friends list).

Only an issue if you're having to sort through tons of friends, which shouldn't be a problem for you.

I don't like how it doesn't have a favourites server list like Xfire.

View>Servers>Favorites

I don't like how it takes much longer to load than Xfire, and often comes up with bullshit connection issue problems.

I've had more trouble with Xfire in the past than Steam.

[Pedsdude]

I hate how it forces you to look at people's profiles in its own annoying browers.

https://steamcommunity.com/

Can you set it so that when you click to view someone's profile, or to check your own control panel while in Steam, it opens it up in Firefox?

I don't like the sizing of many of the things (e.g. friends list).

Only an issue if you're having to sort through tons of friends, which shouldn't be a problem for you.

The only reason it's not a problem for me currently is because I don't want many friends on Steam because I don't use it often enough. There's a circle going on there.

I don't like how it doesn't have a favourites server list like Xfire.

View>Servers>Favorites

And for games such as CoD4 that I haven't bought through Steam?

I don't like how it takes much longer to load than Xfire, and often comes up with bullshit connection issue problems.

I've had more trouble with Xfire in the past than Steam.

I find that very hard to believe. On a related note, I've very recently clicked to open Steam and it's been on "Connecting Steam account" for literally 2 minutes. Xfire would have been fully loaded within 20 seconds.

[[SoE]_Zaitsev]

I don't really use Steam either. I mainly use it for the awesome deals all the time.

And it has some very interesting news regarding upcoming new games, patches, blogs and whatnot else. Things that xfire doesn't have, and things that xfire doesn't need. Both programs are pretty awesome.

[Soviet]

The last time Steam messed up for me was about 4 months ago with the Steam UI Beta. And frankly, it's a beta, I'm not surprised it messed up. My xfire overlay, however, never works in BC2 and only works half the time in CoD4. Saying Xfire is in a different league makes it sound superior, which it is not. It might be a little faster and smoother, but that is because it is so basic. They are only in different leagues in the sense that Xfire's complexity isn't even comparable to Steam's. Oh, and Steam Cloud.

[|Master|]

I hate Steam.

[Husker]

I hate Steam.

Quote Championship again... YAY!