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Xfire buyout......again

Postby Wufei Chang on Mon Aug 02, 2010 6:48 pm

System Broadcast:
Xfire was bought by new owners today. Most of the team that has built Xfire over the last six years is leaving. We enjoyed working for you for the last 127 releases and wish we could stay to create the next 127. Good bye, good luck, and game on. --- The Xfire Team


Mon Aug 02 18:16:11 2010


i remember Viacom buying it, back in April 2006, but any idea who owns it now?


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Re: Xfire buyout......again

Postby Magyk on Mon Aug 02, 2010 7:00 pm

Saw that earlier today, Xfire website has been down since that message went up.

EDIT: I lied, forums are up.

I read that Xfire was sold to a company called "3D Realms", but Wikipedia just has it listed as being sold to an undisclosed company.
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Re: Xfire buyout......again

Postby Duo on Mon Aug 02, 2010 8:00 pm

Is xfire really worth the money? Do they really take in that much income with a single small banner ad on the buddy list?
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Re: Xfire buyout......again

Postby Kerafym on Mon Aug 02, 2010 8:30 pm

Duo wrote:Is xfire really worth the money? Do they really take in that much income with a single small banner ad on the buddy list?


Considering like 80% of people who game for more than 2 hours a week have XFire, I'd say there's a high likelyhood.
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Re: Xfire buyout......again

Postby tens0r on Mon Aug 02, 2010 8:31 pm

MTV bought it.
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Re: Xfire buyout......again

Postby Laser on Tue Aug 03, 2010 5:23 am

it was me and my fellow business tycoons
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Re: Xfire buyout......again

Postby Magyk on Tue Aug 03, 2010 10:31 am

tens0r wrote:MTV bought it.


Wrong, Viacom is the parent company of MTV.
MTV actually sold Xfire to a company called Titan Gaming.

http://titanplatform.com/
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Re: Xfire buyout......again

Postby Duo on Tue Aug 03, 2010 11:04 am

So basically it's going to become another Steam.
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Re: Xfire buyout......again

Postby Kain on Tue Aug 03, 2010 12:56 pm

Sounds like it.
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