GW2 Players, do You use Xfire ? (Poll)

Damzilla

Simple question, simple answer.

Rules: Question applies to GW2 players only. This poll isn't made to be a representative of the whole community, just a sample of the current MMORPG.com members - players. No trolling, flaming - keep it clean and civil - it's not that hard, is it ?

krakra70

Originally posted by Damzilla

Simple question, simple answer.

Rules: Question applies to GW2 players only. This poll isn't made to be a representative of the whole community, just a sample of the current MMORPG.com members - players. No trolling, flaming - keep it clean and civil - it's not that hard, is it ?

Keep in mind scientific polls are being made with as low as 500-1000 people to represent opinions of millions of people. Even if only 1% use xfire in statistics it is more than enough.

wartyxwt

You could give me a £10k PC and I still wouldn't use this or any of that bloatware crap companies use to measure their penis size with.

Eir_S

Nope.  I know it asked me to install it when I bought Dawn of War: Soulstorm, but I didn't.

Connmacart

Originally posted by krakra70

Originally posted by Damzilla

Simple question, simple answer.

Rules: Question applies to GW2 players only. This poll isn't made to be a representative of the whole community, just a sample of the current MMORPG.com members - players. No trolling, flaming - keep it clean and civil - it's not that hard, is it ?

Keep in mind scientific polls are being made with as low as 500-1000 people to represent opinions of millions of people. Even if only 1% use xfire in statistics it is more than enough.

Scientific polls makes use of a large pool of different groups. Xfire is a group on its own and as such unrepresentive of everything except it's own populace.

Yakkin

Nope. Don't see no point to doing so. It's not like an addon from WoW, where it customizes the UI or anything; it's just there.

Damzilla

Of course, to reveal my answer : I voted no. Never really had contact with Xfire accept on this site. Seeing so many posts about it sparked my curiosity and I made this poll, especially since people tend to study these statistics quite a bit.

Mortorious

I use Xfire last 2 years just want to know my gaming time:)

Darwa

I tried it out for a week or so back around 2005 (was that when the SWG CU hit? It was whenever that happened). I couldn't see the point then, and I still don't.

If I want to know how long I play a game for, I use a clock. If the game companies want to know what I'm playing, then they should share their data (assuming they don't already).

raven222

Nope I don't

Bijou

Never used and never will.

Dibdabs

Originally posted by Bijou

Never used and never will.

Same here.

The_Korrigan

Never, and I won't touch such stuff with a ten foot pole.

Teilo

Nope, never had any interest in it.

Requiem1066

Nope never and will never used anything like Xfire ... Can't see the need or point 

HeroEvermore

I find no reason t run xfire. It is a pointless program. with voice chat servers I keep in contact with my gaming friends anyway.

Gaia_Hunter

Originally posted by krakra70

Originally posted by Damzilla

Simple question, simple answer.

Rules: Question applies to GW2 players only. This poll isn't made to be a representative of the whole community, just a sample of the current MMORPG.com members - players. No trolling, flaming - keep it clean and civil - it's not that hard, is it ?

Keep in mind scientific polls are being made with as low as 500-1000 people to represent opinions of millions of people. Even if only 1% use xfire in statistics it is more than enough.

But those studies to have any validity require the sample to be representive of the general population.

For example if you want to know what is the opinion about sex equality and then of those 1000 people you ask 700 men and only 300 women, you can bet the results will be different from the general population.

So the problem of using Xfire is knowing is if the behaviour of the Xfire user is similar to the average GW2 player or is it different.

By definition, Xfire users are different since they use Xfire meaning they are a group instead of a sample.

We know that at least some MMORPG players tend to stick with a single game so they have no need for a program to track friends over multiple games.

Damzilla

Well, the numbers are really interesting at the moment... I reckon we will have a lot more votes when the NA players wake up in a few hours. I encourage anyone who didn't vote to do so, every vote counts !

RemyVorender

No

Siug

Nope. Didn't even know what it was until I read some dudes bringing that up on mmorpg.com to prove their baseless arguments (like some mmo was florishing or bombing).

Aerowyn

Originally posted by Damzilla

Well, the numbers are really interesting at the moment... I reckon we will have a lot more votes when the NA players wake up in a few hours. I encourage anyone who didn't vote to do so, every vote counts !

 

considering xfire shows little under 9k people out of the over 2 mil who got this game it's not surprising most people here don'tuse it

LoLife

I don't use Xfire, but have been thinking about using it recently

ShakyMo

What's xfire?

Mithrandolir

Nope. I use to use it, up to about the time lotro launched... or thereabouts. But not since.

 

Thillian

MQ

Thillian

I'm using it, because it tracks every hour of every game I play. Great tool to see in which game I spent the most time.

Guild Wars 2 - 5 hours.

The Secret World - 591 hours.