vlad76, 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
tiredofsametab, How about even older: HEAT (HEAT.net)? https://web.archive.org/web/19970601031026/http://www.heat.net/
coffee, Used to play Duke Nukem 3D there, and I think one of the Quake games. Later games all came with bundled Gamespy and forced the installation on me, hated it so much I gave up playing online back then, and still never got back into it.
ErinCrush, Bring it back :(
oryx, God that brings back memories. I mainly used it for Halo CE back on Windows XP still in like 09-10. Joined a clan through Xfire that I played with a bunch. Used it a little for Minecraft too! Those days on CE were the best.
SwedishFool, 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.
ArmoredCavalry, (edited ) There are some archives of the service here -
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.
There’s quite a few profiles on Web Archive too -
veng, 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 …
Cachorroultravioleta, Xfire to Discord: I am your Father
Goodtoknow, Grandfather? Wasnt Mumble the in-between?
adrian783, ventrilo: am I a joke to you
xtremeownage, TeamSpeak ftw
Temezi, 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.
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ItsTom87, Yee olde gamer
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regalia, 2013 was 30 years ago 💀
FARTYSHARTBLAST, Remember Mplayer?
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot, It got forked into MPV and is still under active development.
jackie_jormp_jomp, I remember playing Jedi Knight on the Internet Gaming Zone
My back hurts
XaeroDegreaz, Remember heat.net?
FARTYSHARTBLAST, Hah, I had a promotional mix tape album from them - there was some good shit on there actually. Sneaker Pimps, The Crystal Method, etc.
JackLSauce, Pepperidge Farm remembers
MDKAOD, I have footsoldier dogtags still. 10six was my jam. Still alive via project visitor.
yukichigai, Same on the dogtags. Never got into 10six; I was more of an FPS gamer at the time. Lots of Duke Nukem 3D. Lots of shareware Quake.
XaeroDegreaz, Nice, I didn’t have tags, but I got the shirt. I really only played Quake 2 and Unreal Tournament
ChronosWing, Unfortunate project visitor is pretty dead last I checked. 10six is impossible without having a very active clan, your bases get decimated the moment you go offline.
Darkwatch00, This was the best way to game with and chat with friends. I miss those days.
zahel, A blast from the past. Totally forgot about it existing until this post.
Squander, 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.
SoapyYogurt82, Reminds me of the all seeying eye
Sterile_Technique, Xfire had such a good system for overlay. and just so many good features. It was better 10 years ago than Discord is today.
ArmoredCavalry, It was definitely ahead of its time! Not really sure why it faded away, I guess pressure from Steam (pun intended), and games moving to private in-game server browsers? Along with many other options for voice chat.
CryptidBestiary, Why do you think it was better than Discord today? Didn’t get to experience Xfire so genuinely curious about it’s user experience.
regalia, It wasn’t. Nostalgia is hell of a drug
Sterile_Technique, It was very feature-rich. Literally everything discord offeres, but better implemented, and every feature was customizable - the in-game overlay being the one I remember most fondly. In addition to a VOIP indicator like discord has, it had a text-chat overlay too that my guild used a lot. We were spread out over multiple games, but we all had one unified in-game guild chat thanks to Xfire. You could resize and reposition everything in the overlay, and could set a keybind to toggle whether your mouse and such could interact with the chat windows or just click through it to interact with the game. It was clean as fuck.
VOIP quality was outstanding. UI in general was customizable and also clean as fuck.
It had a built in screen recorder.
Everything was intuitive to use and easy to use.
It was just really, REALLY high quality all around.
Hope it makes a comeback.
tuoret, What wasn’t feature-rich was the chat, just plain text, no emoticons or rich text or anything. Absolutely loved it.
Sterile_Technique, It did a really good job of putting the stuff you actually want on screen, while staying the hell out of the game’s way!
yukichigai, Agreed. Cutesy emotes are great when you aren't trying to concentrate on multiple other things at the same time. When I'm mid-game the only chat I read needs to be static and non-moving.
PixelOfLife, Oh, I remember. Some of the games I played a lot would just crash if I had Xfire running in the background.
Asimo, Man I’d forgotten about this.
This and vent were the first things I loaded when gaming (along with frapps).
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