so....xfire?
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It's a chat feature on PC, I have it installed on my Internet explorer 'cos it entered me in a competition for razer goodies if I did.keybird said:
I don't use it 'cos I don't have any friends that I play games with, so I can't tell you if it's good or how it stacks up against it's competition.
I love it. It tracks what all ur friends are playing and how many hours you have logged in each game. Plus there is an awesome chat feature where you get in a room with your friends and can talk to each other via mics for no cost. Basically like TS or Vent but free. Xfire is great and I could function without it, but wouldnt want to.
I enjoy using XFire. To me it is in every way better than Steam's community chat. Its overlay is snazzy, it comes with little tackable overlay sections, like FPS, a Clock, hell, you can even pin the chat up if you want. You can also use it to record videos, broadcast live, take and upload screenshots, and it has a built in music player. The video codec used to record video compresses extremely well with very little loss. A five minute 1280x1024 video runs about 30-50 megs on-disk.
Like Steam, it also does chat, keeps track of game time, has a web browser in the overlay, and does VOIP. But what Steam doesn't have that almost all other chat apps do, is P2P file transfers. As long as you're not an idiot, you wont be accepting every single file transfer that comes in and get yourself a virus, so people who say that's a security hole are a tad off.
However, out of all that, the best thing I like about XFire over Steam: I can actually HEAR the in-game chat alert. The recent Steam updates replaced their once-audible "DEHDOO" with a tiny, almost polite little "bloop" that you CANNOT hear unless you're either wearing headphones or are not in the heat of battle at the time.
Like Steam, it also does chat, keeps track of game time, has a web browser in the overlay, and does VOIP. But what Steam doesn't have that almost all other chat apps do, is P2P file transfers. As long as you're not an idiot, you wont be accepting every single file transfer that comes in and get yourself a virus, so people who say that's a security hole are a tad off.
However, out of all that, the best thing I like about XFire over Steam: I can actually HEAR the in-game chat alert. The recent Steam updates replaced their once-audible "DEHDOO" with a tiny, almost polite little "bloop" that you CANNOT hear unless you're either wearing headphones or are not in the heat of battle at the time.
I believe it will keep track of your playtime provided you add them to your games list and launch it from there (although I might be wrong.)Composer said:
i have used it for years, its a in-game chat app that also lets you take screen shots and record video. mic chat is also available. they also released other clients being able to be used through it like msn and yahoo.
problem is the more features they cram in the crappier the app has been getting and this is coming from someone who has used it for over 4 years xD it started going downhill when MTV took over.
Only reason I dont leave it is a few stubborn friends refuse to use anything but xfire
problem is the more features they cram in the crappier the app has been getting and this is coming from someone who has used it for over 4 years xD it started going downhill when MTV took over.
Only reason I dont leave it is a few stubborn friends refuse to use anything but xfire
