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.
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.
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Remember Mplayer?
Remember heat.net?
Pepperidge Farm remembers
I have footsoldier dogtags still. 10six was my jam. Still alive via project visitor.
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.
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.
Nice, I didn’t have tags, but I got the shirt. I really only played Quake 2 and Unreal Tournament
Hah, I had a promotional mix tape album from them - there was some good shit on there actually. Sneaker Pimps, The Crystal Method, etc.
I remember playing Jedi Knight on the Internet Gaming Zone
My back hurts
It got forked into MPV and is still under active development.
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2013 was 30 years ago 💀
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Yee olde gamer
Did you pronounce it X-fire or Crossfire?
X fire, but in my defense I was eleven
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A lot of, generally Japanese, media uses “x” as shorthand for “cross”
A friend always called it “christfire” because it pissed EVERYONE off
Let them know I’m taking that for my new band name.
I remember in Paper Mario: TTYD one of the late game tattle entries on a X-naut enemy clarifies that its pronounced “cross”-nauts. This game had me mispronouncing the villain team’s name the entire time until the end.
Hence the cross button on PS controllers.
X usually stands for cross. Some road sign will say train xing or deer xing
Sometimes X is also used to abbreviate Crossmas.
Christfire would’ve gone hard.
More recently X also represents a heap of shit.
English is my 2nd language, so I always read it as “X” Fire. That;s funny, I never though about it.
I never even considered it might be pronounced crossfire…I am stupid.
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I dont even need to watch this video, I can hear the thumbnail. Don’t get caught in the CROSSFIREEEE!
I actually convinced my parents to buy this for me, played it once.
I cannot read the word crossfire without that song latching onto my brain.
The commercial is a masterpiece of 90’s child-centric advertising
I think I remember an official statement saying “X-Fire” was correct, and “crossfire” was wrong.
“Ex-fire”. “Crossfire” was an AMD thing.
Do you call the button on a controller X or cross?
I could be wrong but I call it the D pad
I mean this button.
jesus christ. xfire. that’s a name I haven’t heard in a long time.
Xfire had such a good system for overlay. and just so many good features. It was better 10 years ago than Discord is today.
Hell yeah. Xfire, Counter Strike Source, and Toonami made up the bulk of my childhood. I hardly hear it talked about anymore
The only reason it came up again for me was I noticed it in some old computer files, ha! Used to be my most used application by far.
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.
There’s quite a few profiles on Web Archive too -
https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.xfire.com/profile/*
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 …
Man I’d forgotten about this.
This and vent were the first things I loaded when gaming (along with frapps).
Unregistered Hypercam 2
Xfire to Discord: I am your Father
Grandfather? Wasnt Mumble the in-between?
ventrilo: am I a joke to you
TeamSpeak ftw
I used it every day. RIP my gametime statistics for BF2.
Man I used to stat pad with the boys on BF2 and camp. We were a troll squad. Such good memories.
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.
This brought back so many memories. Late night DarkOrbit, CS…
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.