Tja, kaum ist man mal aus dem Urlaub zurück, schon gibt es einen Dienst weniger: der xfire Client wurde im Juni abgeschalten - dazu anbei nachträglich die damalige Meldung von scene-gamers.de:
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Eine Ära geht zu Ende: Der Spieledienst Xfire schaltet den Gameclient und die dazugehörigen Nutzerprofile ab.
Xfire war einer der ersten Game-Clienten, der es ermöglichte, während des Spielens mit Freunden zu chatten – noch lange bevor Steam diese Funktion erhielt. Auch als Serverbrowser, Spiele-Tracker und Plattform zum Teilen von Videos und Screenshots machte sich die Plattform einen Namen. Seit dem Start im Jahr 2003 hat sich jedoch vieles verändert, und Xfire ist längst nicht mehr so populär wie in der Vergangenheit.
Daraus ziehen jetzt auch die Betreiber des Kult-Clients Konsequenzen: Der Xfire-Dienst sowie die dazugehörigen Profilseiten werden am Freitag abgeschaltet. Die Betreiber möchten sich stattdessen auf ihre Turnier-Plattform fokussieren, die ebenfalls unter dem Namen Xfire läuft. Mit dieser will das Xfire-Team im eSport-Bereich punkten und ein möglichst benutzerfreundliches und vielseitiges Turniersystem für Spieler und Veranstalter bieten.
Da viele Spieler bereits um ihre bei Xfire gespeicherten Screenshots und Videos bangen, bietet Xfire bis Freitag die Möglichkeit, diese Daten zu sichern und herunterzuladen. Dafür müsst ihr lediglich euren Accountnamen auf dieser Website eingeben, dann erhaltet ihr nach einer kurzen Wartezeit ein Archiv eurer Medien zum Download. Die Profile und die aufgezeichneten Spielzeiten hingegen werden nicht erhalten bleiben.
Quelle: scene-gamers.de, 10.06.15
http://scene-gamers.de/xfire-client-wir ... eschaltet/
Nachtrag: Xfire – Client wurde nach 12 Jahren abgeschaltet
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Und wen es noch interessiert, hier die offizielle Mitteilung diesbezüglich und die zukünfige Ausrichtung der Platform:
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In 2003, Xfire released the Xfire Client, the first product to bring the outside world into your games. Since its humble beginnings as a simple chat client it has steadily grown to enable users to take screenshots, videos, and live broadcasts and share them on the Xfire Social Website. Attracting over 24 million users into a healthy and vibrant community, it set the standard for the socialization of PC Games.
Twelve years bring a lot of change to an industry. This is especially true in the fast paced world of gaming and the dynamics of the industry have changed significantly in this time. Since Xfire was first released, we’ve seen 3 console generations, the advent of mobile gaming, the transition from packaged games to digital distribution, and the rise of Free To Play games.
We’ve also seen esports grow from small LAN Parties into a maturing industry. Esports has the potential to grow as large as its real world counterpart, and at Xfire, we want to be a part of that. For this reason, we have decided to sunset the Xfire Client and the social site so we can focus our efforts on The Xfire Tournament Platform. This hasn’t been an easy decision. We have a lot of loyal users and we know many of you will be disappointed by the loss of the client and community. But we feel that we are well positioned to make a significant impact in bringing the exhilaration of esports from the pros to the masses, and we can’t do that effectively while also maintaining the client and social website.
We’d like to thank our loyal fans and users who have stuck with us over the years and we hope that you’ll join us on the next chapter of Xfire either as a tournament organizer, a team owner, a participant, or a spectator.
Thanks again for using Xfire, and we look forward to see you in a tournament in the near future.
Quelle: http://social.xfire.com/
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In 2003, Xfire released the Xfire Client, the first product to bring the outside world into your games. Since its humble beginnings as a simple chat client it has steadily grown to enable users to take screenshots, videos, and live broadcasts and share them on the Xfire Social Website. Attracting over 24 million users into a healthy and vibrant community, it set the standard for the socialization of PC Games.
Twelve years bring a lot of change to an industry. This is especially true in the fast paced world of gaming and the dynamics of the industry have changed significantly in this time. Since Xfire was first released, we’ve seen 3 console generations, the advent of mobile gaming, the transition from packaged games to digital distribution, and the rise of Free To Play games.
We’ve also seen esports grow from small LAN Parties into a maturing industry. Esports has the potential to grow as large as its real world counterpart, and at Xfire, we want to be a part of that. For this reason, we have decided to sunset the Xfire Client and the social site so we can focus our efforts on The Xfire Tournament Platform. This hasn’t been an easy decision. We have a lot of loyal users and we know many of you will be disappointed by the loss of the client and community. But we feel that we are well positioned to make a significant impact in bringing the exhilaration of esports from the pros to the masses, and we can’t do that effectively while also maintaining the client and social website.
We’d like to thank our loyal fans and users who have stuck with us over the years and we hope that you’ll join us on the next chapter of Xfire either as a tournament organizer, a team owner, a participant, or a spectator.
Thanks again for using Xfire, and we look forward to see you in a tournament in the near future.
Quelle: http://social.xfire.com/
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