X-fire, what is it.

Muke

so ummm...

 

played almost every big mmo that was on the market since UO, Eq1-2m swg, mxo, w*w , swtor, aarh.......EVE etc etc and the list goes on and on...you name it, I tried it or played it lol.

huge fan of FPS....using Jabber, mumble, msn, irc to keep in contact with other players.

atm in EVE we have a jabber running which puts me in channels with some 5k players from different alliances atm...not to mention gamers from all those other MMO's and shooters/games. Ages vary from 12 to 70+.

BUT:

no-one uses a program called Xfire. the negative responses are overwhelming.

 

I tried it in the past, it was sluggish, buggy, it had a chat option but hey, I got that with Jabber already and it consumed too much memory for something I didn't need........3 others from all those thousands of MMO addicts use(d) xfire...

 

So:

 

please tell me why it is used as a benchmark for MMO's or why it is supposed to be such a good program? I play games with healthy stuffed communities, according to that xfire those should be barren wastelands.....

(have to add that I am a adult player WITH a family, don't need bragging rights about how many times I spent playing games teehee)

 

...so what else does Xfire offer?

tyler10101

To be honest, not much it's just another poor ingame chat that you can use in some of your games. And to log hours of gameplay while you're online. And you can join groups and such but you already mentioned that I think.

sumdumguy1

Originally posted by Muke

so ummm...

 

played almost every big mmo that was on the market since UO, Eq1-2m swg, mxo, w*w , swtor, aarh.......EVE etc etc and the list goes on and on...you name it, I tried it or played it lol.

huge fan of FPS....using Jabber, mumble, msn, irc to keep in contact with other players.

atm in EVE we have a jabber running which puts me in channels with some 5k players from different alliances atm...not to mention gamers from all those other MMO's and shooters/games. Ages vary from 12 to 70+.

BUT:

no-one uses a program called Xfire. the negative responses are overwhelming.

 

I tried it in the past, it was sluggish, buggy, it had a chat option but hey, I got that with Jabber already and it consumed too much memory for something I didn't need........3 others from all those thousands of MMO addicts use(d) xfire...

 

So:

 

please tell me why it is used as a benchmark for MMO's or why it is supposed to be such a good program? I play games with healthy stuffed communities, according to that xfire those should be barren wastelands.....

(have to add that I am a adult player WITH a family, don't need bragging rights about how many times I spent playing games teehee)

 

...so what else does Xfire offer?

It shouldn't be used.  Research has shown,  the number of users it has in games it is measuring is so low, they don't even cover the error margin percentages of 3-5%.  It also been wrong even though its numbers say otherwise.

halflife25

How about raptor? steam? i think people should take into account other tools too if they really want to come up with a proper data regarding MMO population trends.

Quizzical

It's a question of whether you prefer to talk about data that you can get even though it's inaccurate, or data that is accurate but you can't get it.