Entropia Universe and Xfire Team Up for Global Gamer Communication

[PINKY]

Originally Posted by Nikto

It "brings relevant advertising messages to you." (c) Xfire FAQ

Ah, missed that! *signs up* If theres one thing I need more of, its advertising!

[Dante]

Originally Posted by PINKY

Ah, missed that! *signs up* If theres one thing I need more of, its advertising!

Adverts equals more loot?!!

[rwin]

Originally Posted by MindBuster

Why is MindArk targetting people that arent even allowed to play EU ?
Now first all respect to the little handful of adult players, which EU'ers are, that actually found a use for Xfire, but Xfire users are mostly 15-17 year olds who uses it to brag about they got no real life, "look how many hours i've played" type of counterstrikers, EU EULA say's 18+ years.
Maybe it's time for a roadmap telling us older players what MindArks plan is with EU, first all the avatar changes to look young and smart, now targetting sub18 year olds.
Where is EU going exactly ?

sry to disagree but while until recently the majority of xfire users were not mmo players they were shooter gamers, who are primarly 22 to 40 year old males. Most of the 15 to 17 year olds are on the consoles these days, because they cant afford a good game rig.
Those 22 to 40 year olds also play another mmo, that is huge, and don't even know EU exists. Now they will. And they have 1,500$ to 5,000$ dollar high speed game rigs, and jobs, and stay home at night and play when the kids go to bed. they will spend money on games, some of them are great ppl too.

For those you you who don't know,
Xfire runs like most other chat programs but has very valuable features for games. It has a download feature that will search for updates for the games you have installed on your PC. For games other than MMO's such as first person shooters ect, once your friends are on your list, all you need to do is click on their name to join the server they are currently playing on. This is nice when there are about 10k different serves running a shooter game.

How many times have people asked for a way to determine if ppl from their soc are online? Now you have it.

Add your soc mates to your friend list in Xfire, as soon as you log in it will show all members that are online and also who is currently in game. It also provides voice communication and gives you in game notification of a pm from your friends and/or when they come on line.
Set up a hunt team in game and add them all to voice, that is a good time, same as ventrillo and skype but more features.
I am amazed ppl don't know about it. my clan has been using it for 5 years.

I think about 70% of the people who play eu live in some kind of a PC game world bubble, and they are missing out on some amazing things.
Some of the posts in this thread sound like my great granpa when he saw a plane crash on tv and saying " i told you nothing good would from from the men and their flying machines"
Walk up hill both ways 10 miles to get to school? Used to dream of a house and lived in a box on the side of the road where every day you had to lick the road clean? This this probably isnt the program for you.

the security flaw people spoke of here was a EU problem in the client loader, which was a security risk, Ma was about 3 years behind the curve there. I had to disable eu monitoring in xfire because of it.
and now since the user and password are not entered via the loader like 99% of other games it's secure.
good luck.

oh and by the way in 5 years i have never received any mail from xfire other than the news letter I signed up for and update notifications.

[Level]

Pinky
The point (for me) is that I will know how much Hours I wasted in my life playing EU instead of enjoying life by meetings...searching for girlfriend...party...ect, so things...that most ppl in my age do (I was born in 1988 so I'm 19yo) and this is very sad I'm just ugly, stupid ect so I cant (but who cares, Life is Life)
Level.

[Boo Who You]

I am not to sure abou this one...

[EyeContact]

Been using it for a while. Mostly for communicating with people ingame when I'm at work and I've read all posts on EF already

[RazorFire]

Hopefully someone will be kind enough to do an XFire within EU guide so that those of us unfamiliar with it but interested can work out what its all about

[711]

Originally Posted by Level

ok, 711 and Mindbuster, moderators...If MA accepts Xfire...you have to accept Xfire too
I denand my banner be visible!

Level.

Please read the thread before making a post; this was already addressed:

Originally Posted by 711

As Mindbuster explained, the term XFire was censored on EF to prevent the use of XFire signatures on EF, after the issue relating to usernames and passwords being released during a crash was reported. The term has now been removed from the list of censored terms (it would be silly to keep it censored now that Mindark is doing a partnership and promotions with XFire).

Xfire signatures will be allowed on EntropiaForum, however the forum rule regarding signature sizes still applies:

[dataspice]

I've briefly visited the xfire website linked in the news article, and couple of things caught my attention. At first glance, evidence of Xfire's contribution to this new "team" is conspicuous only in its absence.

The first bit that I noticed was on Xfire's home page. I clicked the link shown below, expecting that I'd see some mention of new partners, sponsored games, etc. I didn't show the results because we're not supposed to mention other games, but I can definitely say that EU wasn't among the logos shown to the left of the link.


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I didn't pay much attention to the missing logo, since I figured maybe those other games payed a premium to be listed there, and I continued exploring the offerings. In the News section, bottom-middle of the page, they had information about a new Clan/Guild (Soc?) system:

Release 1.85
December 10th, 2007--The latest Xfire release includes the official release of the Clans & Guilds system, many more games with the new Xfire In-Game interface, and more. Read on for more details.
--- Chris

I was interested in that offering, since it might be fun to have the ability to coordinate soc events, or chat groups. Unfortunately, the choices available when listing your clan/guild/whatever were missing a key field:

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There was no option to list a society.

My goal in showing/telling this stuff is not to complain, by the way. It's possible that all those things will show up soon, and I'm actually kind of excited about the opportunity to chat with developers as mentioned in the news release.
However, the lack of fanfare on Xfire's part leads me to a rather funny question... I wonder if Xfire knows that they've teamed up with MA?.

[dataspice]

Originally Posted by RazorFire

Hopefully someone will be kind enough to do an XFire within EU guide so that those of us unfamiliar with it but interested can work out what its all about

RazorFire, until some industrious person creates an EU version, there might be some useful info in Xfire's product tour. I haven't taken the product tour yet, but it looks like they've got lots of info available and the ability to jump to the features that interest you. Here is the link:
Xfire - Product Tour