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ArmoredCavalry, rok temu (edited rok temu) do games w Anyone remember Xfire?

For those that didn’t use it, Xfire was basically a combination of messenger, voice chat, and a server browser for games back in the day.

As far as I know, it was also one of the earliest ways to stream your gameplay for others to watch. I remember trying it out years before Twitch was around.

EnglishMobster, rok temu

It was pretty much used the way people use Discord with a group of friends today. It didn't have servers or anything like that, but you could hop on a call with a couple of buds and play games together.

I played a lot of Halo Custom Edition over Xfire back in the day...

Venat0r, rok temu

It also made it really easy to join your friends games before everything was on steam.

Kolanaki, rok temu do games w Anyone remember Xfire?

I remember it being a thing I didn’t use. It was like a voice chat/messenger thing with a built in game browser like GameSpy, right? I used TeamSpeak and some other tool mostly over xFire. I didn’t know anyone else who used xFire so it was kinda useless to me. A lot of communication apps in the late 90’s/early-mid 2000’s had that unfortunate downfall for me. No point in using something nobody I would talk to uses 🤷🏻‍♂️

mihnt, rok temu

I think most people used it to find servers to play on. I know that's what I used it for.

dm_me_your_feet, rok temu do games w Anyone remember Xfire?

I remember i had an account with my real name on it. I lost the password so my name was forever associated with an Xfire account i created as an edgy 14 year old. I msged support and they were like the most stereotypical americans ever lol “We cant verify if that ID is valid bc you arent from the USA but we will delete it as a curtesy”

Thank god for the GPDR, this interaction would go a bit different today lol

Kosta554, rok temu do games w Anyone remember Xfire?

Remember installing it from my Medal of Honor disk. Was it Pacific Assault? I don’t remember.

morbidcactus, rok temu do games w Anyone remember Xfire?

I used this daily, had so many hours logged pre getting everything on steam. Was actually just talking about it not that long ago, was such a big part of my highschool years.

lukasfr, rok temu do games w Anyone remember Xfire?

I dont know what this is

DosDude, rok temu do games w Anyone remember Xfire?

Oh god. I must have had 2000 hours logged on jedi academy with xfire. Brings back memories.

SilverFlame, rok temu

Me too, but it was Civ 4 instead of Jedi Academy

Nutterthebutter, rok temu do games w Anyone remember Xfire?

I used to love this. I remember it getting very buggy though towards the end. I think this turned into raptor later on or something like that.

tifa0080, rok temu do games w Anyone remember Xfire?

I used it every day. RIP my gametime statistics for BF2.

PopcornPrincess, rok temu

Man I used to stat pad with the boys on BF2 and camp. We were a troll squad. Such good memories.

MyDearWatson616, rok temu

If flying a fighter jet in real life was just like flying one in BF2, I’d have a very valuable life skill.

IMongoose, rok temu

Same, but with helicopters.

fiah, rok temu

somewhere in some alternate universe, you went full Ender’s Game on some sorry asses

Phanatik, rok temu do games w Anyone remember Xfire?

Xfire was my bastion with my totally legit copy of Call of Duty 4.

VicentAdultman, rok temu

CoD4 was fireee. Dude, CoDJump, Zombie mod, and on top of it all promod to make the game competitive.

Macaroni_ninja, rok temu do games w Anyone remember Xfire?

I used this and Hamachi for years

ArmoredCavalry, rok temu

Ah yeah, I forgot about Hamachi! It was great for games that only supported LAN multiplayer.

candyman337, rok temu

I used hamachi because no one aside from me in my group of friends knew how to port forward, but it didn’t work on my network and it took me 4 years to figure out it was because at&t has it’s own network on it’s dialup modems by default.

They still do that to this day with their fiber modem/routers! I hate it! And even if you do passthrough to have your own up for only your router, your ping is still never below 23ms because there’s two stop points in the chain, that and at&t’s dns resolution is ass.

Damn internet oligopolies.

aBundleOfFerrets, rok temu

The nice thing about awful isp dns is it is trivial to make your router just serve cloudflare’s instead (1.1.1.1)

candyman337, rok temu

I think I’d have to change it in their modem but I’m not 100% sure, I remember having troubles the last time I tried this

RogueBanana, rok temu

That is if u want it for the whole network but u can set dns in ur devices as well. It’s usually under ipv4 section for pc and connections on Android.

Macaroni_ninja, rok temu

Terraria before proper multiplayer support was our prime Hamachi game. We had like 7-8 people from an internet forum playing on and off through our hamachi virtual network.

Awesome times!

3ntranced, rok temu

I still have my old terraria group instances saved with the eloquent passwords such as “butthole” and “42069” for ease of reference.

Redditiscancer789, rok temu

I played a lot of sup comm fa on there myself. I also used gameranger as a match maker for some of my more…busted…games.

sickday, rok temu do games w Anyone remember Xfire?

Hell yeah. Xfire, Counter Strike Source, and Toonami made up the bulk of my childhood. I hardly hear it talked about anymore

ArmoredCavalry, rok temu

The only reason it came up again for me was I noticed it in some old computer files, ha! Used to be my most used application by far.

Rolando_Cueva, rok temu do games w Every game developer company should be like this

Amen to that!

joshuaacasey, rok temu do games w Anyone remember Xfire?

jesus christ. xfire. that’s a name I haven’t heard in a long time.

Squirrel, rok temu do games w Anyone remember Xfire?

I had forgotten it until this post.