Anyone remember Xfire?

I used this and Hamachi for years

For those that didn't use it, Xfire was basically a combination of messenger, voice chat, 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.

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Did you pronounce it X-fire or Crossfire?

Hell yeah. Xfire, Counter Strike Source, and Toonami made up the bulk of my childhood. I hardly hear it talked about anymore

Xfire had such a good system for overlay. and just so many good features. It was better 10 years ago than Discord is today.

Man I'd forgotten about this.

This and vent were the first things I loaded when gaming (along with frapps).

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.

Xfire to Discord: I am your Father

I used it every day. RIP my gametime statistics for BF2.

GameSpy man. Ftw.

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.

I had forgotten it until this post.

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.

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.

I remember disliking it. I don't remember why

Oh god. I must have had 2000 hours logged on jedi academy with xfire. Brings back memories.

Reminds me of the all seeying eye

This brought back so many memories. Late night DarkOrbit, CS..

My childhood!

Yes! A lot of time spent using that, just recently tried to remember its name. Good times...

This was the best way to game with and chat with friends. I miss those days.

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

Xfire was my bastion with my totally legit copy of Call of Duty 4.

Didn't they have custom skins because I remember messing around with that and rocking some cool skins...?

Oh, I remember. Some of the games I played a lot would just crash if I had Xfire running in the background.

How about even older: HEAT (HEAT.net)? https://web.archive.org/web/19970601031026/http://www.heat.net/

I used this daily, had so many hours logged pre getting everything on steam. Was actually just talking about it not that long ago, was such a big part of my highschool years.

A blast from the past. Totally forgot about it existing until this post.

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.

I was an mplayer user. They had plenty of quake team fortress servers.

Bring it back :(

Remember installing it from my Medal of Honor disk. Was it Pacific Assault? I don’t remember.

I used to love this. I remember it getting very buggy though towards the end. I think this turned into raptor later on or something like that.

I remember it being a thing I didn't use. It was like a voice chat/messenger thing with a built in game browser like GameSpy, right? I used TeamSpeak and some other tool mostly over xFire. I didn't know anyone else who used xFire so it was kinda useless to me. A lot of communication apps in the late 90's/early-mid 2000's had that unfortunate downfall for me. No point in using something nobody I would talk to uses 🤷🏻‍♂️

I remember i had an account with my real name on it. I lost the password so my name was forever associated with an Xfire account i created as an edgy 14 year old. I msged support and they were like the most stereotypical americans ever lol "We cant verify if that ID is valid bc you arent from the USA but we will delete it as a curtesy"

Thank god for the GPDR, this interaction would go a bit different today lol

This came up in convo with a co-worker recently. I had completely forgotten about it until he mentioned it and then, suddenly, a flood of memories came rushing back.

Never knew anyone to use this

I dont know what this is