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Bro what's your xfire?
Jose Hall
Cooper Jenkins
I miss it so much. My notification sound always bugged out when in game and was literal ear rape
Gabriel Sanders
dear fucking lord, you sure know how to make me feel old.
Daniel Powell
>tfw xfire had online fast and high quality online streaming technology way before justin tv
Evan Perry
What happened anyway?
There were millions of daily users, how come the entire thing vanished overnight?
Easton Brooks
>tfw I never even bothered checking out that feature because I thought streaming was dumb
Grayson Myers
>iwn play ut2004 with my pals through this
it huuuuuuuuuurts
Ethan Campbell
2008 was a different time
Hunter Williams
>COD2 Multiplayer
my fucking nigga
Leo Rodriguez
Crazy how all those games were actually awesome with great communities compared to the biggest online games right now
Leo Morris
Man, now I feel old. I used it for CoD4.
Nathan Martinez
Used it for COD2 to play with my clan
Kayden Morgan
modern games are still that great in terms of community and stuff
you're just retarded because you're a self-sheltered idiot that hates everything and must be a contrarian fag on Yea Forumseddit
Ian Watson
bros, is it just boomer tinted glasses, or were times really objectively better?
The more I try to separate myself from my emotions
The more it seems like things truly were better
except for the graphics
James Green
Your mom is a fag
Chase Jackson
not an argument
Brandon Brown
Your mom is not an argument
Julian Nelson
I mean we have some stuff that is really good, but... We got full games. And there were expansion packs! Remember those? They were like DLC, except bigger. Sometimes they were even bigger than the base game!
And we hung out with people in person more, I remember that. There was a comoputer cafe down the road from my home that had a bunch of computers and people would go and play DDR there.
How do we defeat the demons that killed our culture?
William Gomez
me and some friends would play point and click adventures that way.
one of us would play and the others would watch and be in voice chat and wed do stuff together.
Nathan Lee
They don't need one, your mom's a fag
Jackson Jenkins
>How do we defeat the demons that killed our culture?
Death to Israel?
Kevin Sullivan
An argument would be to say that there is less of a tight knit community in games in general. Look at WoW (or any other MMO) now and compare it to Vanilla or TBC.
Most games go out of their way to offer more streamlined matchmaking and the bigger games go out of their way to add weird psychological manipulation into said matchmaking.
The pricing structure was different, games were not designed to bleed you dry.
Games-As-Service didnt exist.
Jack Adams
They sold out and the new owners tried to push a gaming service nobody wanted, so they removed the chat client and kept the service then went bankrupt months later.
Samuel Smith
samefagging because fuck you
There is a huge difference between matchmaking in its current form and logging into a server and playing in there. Remember servers?
Now it is borderline fucking illegal to set up a server for most games. Im not actually sure of the way CSGO works but damn near everything else has hosted servers (a la battle.net) and corporate legalistic hellfire will rain down upon you if you try and touch their cash cow.
Asher Wood
I had an edge Lord name like xxSniperGhostxx or some shit. These were good fucking times
Sebastian Hall
wtf is xfire? literally never even hard of this. use steam or discord or something else dumbass
Hunter Barnes
Tyler Ward
>all your fucking videos/screenshots are permanently forever deleted
we weren't ready for this purge. Xfire will 100% be forgotten in both history and individual memory because very few users downloaded their stuff
Xavier Hughes
true professional gamers use microsoft teams voice conferencing
Isaiah Brooks
I used the 1337 language pack so all the text in the client was a mangled combination of capital letters, numbers and punctuation. I thought it was the coolest shit ever.
Jose Evans
Makes you realise nothing on the internet is forever.
Ayden Myers
>tfw most of the things on the internet back in 2008 are completely gone now
Parker Brooks
Will be the same with Discord, and it's gonna be much more destructive because every modding community, every online discussion board, every dev is relying on the fucking Discord nowadays.
Jace Allen
discord is like youtube. its too big too fail.
Oliver Russell
They said that about myspace and bebo
Levi Green
>flyff
God I miss that game before they went full retard and reworked the way skills worked. I just miss that general era of exploring weird weeb f2p MMOs in general.
Isaac James
Nobody said fucking BEBO was too big to fail. It wasn't even close to that size. People just used it because they had that one friend group that was all around it.
Matthew Bennett
Discord itself yeah, but they might do something like tumblr and nuke most of the channels due to racism and NSFW content.
Nathaniel Diaz
i miss promod bros
Carson Richardson
I managed to get my screenshots and video recordings back in the day before it got shut down
Zachary Rivera
Discord really is relied on heavily by devs. That's the only downside though, Indie devs will take a bullet. Other than that, it doesn't matter if Discord dies right now other than you'll lose your contacts if you have no other way to reach them. Saving chatlogs, let alone server logs, is nothing romantic compared to a hub of videos and pictures which discord is not a direct host of.
Bentley Brooks
youtube actually makes money though. all discord does is sell embarassing furry ERP chat logs to advertisers.
Brandon Bennett
A lot of my favourite newgrounds artists stopped updating anywhere but on Discord. I hate it because you also have to suffer interacting with the fanbase which acts like they're equal and important members to the community just because they spam emojis and make MS Paint OCs of the characters.
Wyatt Gray
Try furry indie dev discords where the shitstains keep roleplaying in the general channels. I'm a furry but jesus christ these faggots disgust me.
Ayden Reyes
i think i made an account but never used it
i've only ever needed steam idk
Easton Miller
Weebs aren't any better nowadays. With how many of them use monster girl avatars, furries and weebs seem to be heading in the same direction.
Connor Bell
>Enemy Territory
I had good times with that game. I want to go back.
William Anderson
Devs are usually on Slack, Discord is for marketing.
Charles Jones
Nobody plays CS:GO to have fun, there are dedicated servers, there are even fun ones like surf_ but they're empty and kind of hidden and people that want to fuck around probably are in CS:S.
Camden Collins
noob
Leo Evans
>yahoo
noob
Jose Wilson
I remember Xfire being great and hating steam's piss UI.
Juan King
Steam was awful back then. Took forever just to start it.
Samuel Cruz
because these games had server browser with a possibility to add a server to your favorite, so people were always coming back to the same servers and it helps building a community
Connor Cox
It was so nice. I miss it and still have an install of it
And video recording. Recorded plenty of Quake 4 and Fallout 3 with it.
Thomas Martinez
>WarRock
I loved it and hated it at the same time.
Jeremiah Stewart
Times were objectively better.
Ayden Ramirez
Alexander Ortiz
Interesting to see just how little Steam's UX has changed over the years.
Connor Butler
>CoD2
Man I had so many hours in this shit. Rifles only servers, I remember a bunch of the clans back then too. Shout out to the fags that played on Lefty's server, he was probably a pedo though. This and Jedi Academy were my multiplayer go to.
Adam Howard
I was so resistant to Steam, I held out for a long time. it's weird looking back at the shit game that won me over.
Connor Hernandez
I really did hate steam. I thought having to open a client just to play certain games was dog shit but the golden age of source mods were too good to resist.
Jeremiah Barnes
To be fair, Steam only started picking up steam (heh) during the indie renaissance. With all the indie games being bundled cheaply on sites like humblebundle and indiegala, which all handed out steam keys.
Zachary Evans
xfire sucked
William Lee
im the user you replied to and i know, you are right
but there is a big difference between stating that "current games have no great communities" and "communities are mostly artificially inflated by the broad videogame audience of nowadays, and most of them are either passive or just hit-and-jump ones that have very little passion among their members"
Hunter Campbell
Nah it was fucking great, sorry you didn't have friends.
Charles Reed
Times were better but only cause the effort of entry had a bare minimum of intelligence requirement. Life, games, tv, and entertainment in general are designed for the lowest common denominator made for everyone but actually no one.
Chase Butler
This takes me back to my comfy days of gaming and not having a single care in the world.
Levi Gonzalez
Thanks, I gotta go download MB2 again now.
At least it still exists.
Landon Lopez
Youre a fucking zoomer stfu. Humblebundle didnt exist when Steam was peaking.
Hudson Campbell
After Xfire dwindled me and my friends hopped over to teamspeak and we still use it.
Now, how the fuck does the Steam overlay still not hold a candle to the Xfire overlay from over ten years ago? Sure the controller shit is great but god damn do I miss being able to set some persistent stuff like the clock or leaving a transparent web page over the game.
They were free form too so you could move and resize them around wherever the fuck you wanted.
Did you read it as ecksfire or crossfire?
Ayden Reyes
Eksfire.
Dylan Davis
REEEE! I did not consent to my game being used by this program!
Carter Parker
this was before women and streaming ruined video game
Nicholas Collins
>xfire.com is now a casino site
Its over.
Man I used to be in a clan of GRID drifters on xfire. We used to do drift sessions where we were extremely close to each other and if one fucked up all would wipe out and it was so much fun. Those days are gone..
Henry Myers
man everyone on my xfire was either playing wow or mw. Some moved to mw2 in 2009 but most still played mw.
Sebastian Torres
cough epic store cough
Adam Morgan
Yep, still no reason to use it and I doubt there ever will be.
Hunter Morales
you were right, based kid intuition
Noah Cooper
>I was so resistant to Epic, I held out for a long time. it's weird looking back at the shit game that won me over.
All it takes is one game lmao. Your favorite game becomes epic store exclusive then you will move too.
Carson Rogers
>Your favorite game becomes epic store exclusive
I seriously doubt that
Zachary Adams
rip planet-rtcw.com
Alexander Baker
>Bannerlord is now an epic exclusive
>bloodborne 2 and 1
>ff7 remake
Jonathan Kelly
Are you retarded or something?
Austin Rivera
I miss Dolby Axon. The 3d audio was neat.
Xavier Butler
>implying you wont use epic for bloodborne 2
pls