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Xfire closing down everything except tournament platform

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From http://classic.xfire.com/ ...

In 2003, Xfire released the Xfire Client, the first product to bring the outside world into your games. Since its humble beginnings as a simple chat client it has steadily grown to enable users to take screenshots, videos, and live broadcasts and share them on the Xfire Social Website. Attracting over 24 million users into a healthy and vibrant community, it set the standard for the socialization of PC Games.

 

Twelve years bring a lot of change to an industry. This is especially true in the fast paced world of gaming and the dynamics of the industry have changed significantly in this time. Since Xfire was first released, weve seen 3 console generations, the advent of mobile gaming, the transition from packaged games to digital distribution, and the rise of Free To Play games.

 

Weve also seen esports grow from small LAN Parties into a maturing industry. Esports has the potential to grow as large as its real world counterpart, and at Xfire, we want to be a part of that. For this reason, we have decided to sunset the Xfire Client and the social site so we can focus our efforts on The Xfire Tournament Platform. This hasnt been an easy decision. We have a lot of loyal users and we know many of you will be disappointed by the loss of the client and community. But we feel that we are well positioned to make a significant impact in bringing the exhilaration of esports from the pros to the masses, and we cant do that effectively while also maintaining the client and social website.

 

Wed like to thank our loyal fans and users who have stuck with us over the years and we hope that youll join us on the next chapter of Xfire either as a tournament organizer, a team owner, a participant, or a spectator.

 

Thanks again for using Xfire, and we look forward to see you in a tournament in the near future.

Xfire will now only be a tournament platform: http://xfire.com/

 

But it seems Evolve is offering to migrate all the stats you have in Xfire games to their (awesome) service: https://blog.evolvehq.com/2015/06/goodbye-xfire-we-will-miss-you/

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Never used it. never needed to. So no real loss for me personally. But nothing last forever.

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Awh. I used Xfire for years. It was an awesome system, allowing you to talk to friends and take screenies. And it was a good lobby broswer for Call of Duty, way back when.

 

Then steam came along and well, it replaced Xfire in every way.

 

Sad to see it go though. :(

 

 

Rest in peace, Xfire.

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