Improved performance of Live Video broadcasts, particularly when broadcasting game audio and a microphone. Fixed many small issues with the Twitter integration. Added several mouse cursors in Xfire In-Game that change based on what it is pointing at hand for links, etc. The push-to-talk key is now used to answer voice calls in Xfire In-Game. New games supported. Added the ability to broadcast both microphone and game audio simultaneously on Vista and Windows 7.
Improved the layout of the Tools Options dialog box. Fixed some performance and crash issues with live video broadcast. Reduced the default bandwidth use of live video broadcast. Fixed search in the forums. Added the ability to post a poll in community clan and guild forums. Added the Xfire XO toolbar as an option in the full installer. Fixed a game-hang that could happen with some older games when trying to chat in-game. Fixed icon-drawing problem on Windows Vista. Fixed a problem with voice-enabled chat rooms when the room creator leaves and rejoins.
New games supported: Dekaron, K. Improved performance while broadcasting Live Video. Added ability to add friends in Xfire In-Game. Fixed messages to AIM friends with certain unusual characters. Changed the Live Video system as part of our new partnership with Livestream. No web plugin is required to watch live video any longer and there is no longer any cap on the number of viewers. Fixed a problem with listing all remote screenshots when you have a very large collection.
Added the ability to embed any video on other web sites. The embed code is shown on every video page. Fixed out-of-memory problem with some Call of Duty 2 installations. Added sorting and filtering to Video Search results. Fixed several mistakes in translations. Fix caps lock key to work in Xfire In-Game. Added the ability to cancel a voice call before the receiver answers.
More improvements to AIM support. Large update to German translation on the web site. Added support for the Russian language. Fixed several performance issues during long-term voice chats. Added the ability to create clans that have unlimited membership. Members do not show up on each others' friend lists, but can use the forums, clan news, and event calendars. These clans do not count against the limit of 5 clans you can join. Improved voice chat one-to-one behavior when both users hang up simultaneously.
New beta Xfire XO Toolbar for web games now available. Anyone who wants to beta test Xfire is invited to join. Added group importing to AIM accounts. Fixed problem with installing Xfire on Windows 7 release candidate. Fixed a few issues with the Logitech G15 keyboard support on bit operating systems. This is an alpha-quality feature and will continue to be enhanced.
Uploading multiple screenshots now uploads only one screenshot at a time. Fixed a serious Xfire In-Game delay when you have a lot of online friends. Fixed many small issues with Xfire In-Game.
The old default skin named Xfire is now officially deprecated and will not gain new features. You may still choose to use it if you have it. Fixed a system vulnerability with deleting a large number of screenshots simultaneously. Behind the scenes changes for XIG for 1. Client rejoins chatrooms gracefully after a chat server restart.
Added warning message on personal file transfers. Restore send-message sound in the classic sound pack. Improve sound recording options in Vista. Fixed several problems with flashback video recording. Added new default sound pack. Fixed problem with saving the window location of Xfire on multi-monitor computers.
Fixed problem with Call of Duty: World at War server info. Fixed issues with parsing game server info from recent versions of Counter-Strike 1. You may switch back if you so choose. Added the ability to change sounds through sound packs, which are zip files containing. Improved server information for Call of Duty: World at War. Live Video broadcasts now let you chat with the broadcaster directly from the broadcast web page.
Added a web search box to the bottom of the main window infoview. Added game server info to Call of Duty: World at War. Further improvements to the live video system will launch on the web site during the first week of December. Fixed several issues that caused the Xfire In-Game interface to become out of sync when joining chat rooms and voice chats. Fixed a crash in Far Cry when using the mouse wheel at certain times. Fixed a problem that did not update online users' clan members list when a new member joins a clan.
Fixed several issues with setting duplicate key bindings in Tools Options. Source, D. The entire Xfire team would like to thank all of our loyal users, whether you've been active for one release, ten releases, or close to all releases.
Can you help us improve? Resolved my issue. Clear instructions. Easy to follow. No jargon. Pictures helped. Didn't match my screen. Incorrect instructions. Too technical. Not enough information. Over time, it became less and less relevant for users to have this other chat application when Steam did a lot of those things and also was where people bought games. It became a product challenge to keep Xfire relevant. And so we tried to figure out different ways we could do that.
Wilson: The direction of the company changed drastically. They wanted to revamp the website, stop supporting new games and change the client to be more of a tool to set up tournaments among players. Titan Gaming wanted to go back to something like what Ultimate Arena had been.
Nile Plante director of product management, joined in : We needed to figure out a way to retool the business and the product and, at the same time, figure out what we could salvage from this technology. It was really hard to work with the codebase; making simple changes seemed to take weeks or months. So it was really about trying to figure out what we could keep from the codebase and what we needed to rebuild from scratch. We realized there was a budding e-sports thing, and so we decided we could take this tech and turn that into an early e-sports platform.
Soon, new management was brought in. Strategy shifted. Plante: We took on a lot of investment. And some investors wanted to move to China, so they switched out leadership and hired a CEO who moved us into China. Donovan: We had an opportunity to grow the company in Asia. That was an opportunity that the board brought, and they wanted Malcolm to come in because he had experience in Asia.
I struck a deal that would get us into the internet cafes, which is where all the gaming happens there. And then we were trying to figure out how to localize this thing to China. And I raised the money for us to do that, and we started to pursue it.
Plante: That turned out to be a big distraction for about two years. CasSelle: We probably needed another six to nine months of runway to really prove it out. We had a group of investors who clashed with the existing management and shareholders, which prevented the company from moving forward. Plante: We had a lot of management changes. How we were reacting and how we positioned ourselves depended on the CEO and what their vision was. Donovan: My focus moved to the tournament product.
What we tried to do was basically build out an infrastructure to allow game publishers to integrate casual-competitive tournaments and leagues directly piped into the back-end of their games.
Plante: We went on to build the tournament platform, which we launched in a beta in The Xfire client and social site were sunset in That same year, Discord, a free instant messaging service popular with gamers, made its first release. Today, Discord has over million active users. Steam has over 90 million. Twitch averages over 17 million daily visitors. Plante: I think the legacy of Xfire is the combination of Steam, Discord, Twitch — all these things that were once under one umbrella, expanding out into their own spaces.
Donovan: It could have been Steam. It could have been a distribution platform. It could have been the center of the universe for PC gaming. I suspect we would have moved more in the direction of content, and would have ended up being like a blend of Twitch and Discord. Xfire is a free gaming tool that automatically keeps track of when and where gamers are playing PC games online and lets their friends join them easily.
It allows you to send messages to your friends from within games while you play, also voice chat is supported. File transfers are possible via special game channels. It doesn't matter which online game your friends are playing, which server browser they are using, or which gaming service they're playing on; Xfire is intelligent enough to recognize where your friends are at any time. Suggest corrections.
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