Viacom Buys Xfire For $102 Million 29
The New York Times is reporting that communications company Viacom has purchased the Xfire gaming network for $102 Million. From the article: "Judy McGrath, the chief executive of MTV Networks, which will oversee Xfire, said it would stay focused on building a community for game players, but its technology might be adapted for broader network services. Xfire has attracted four million users since it was introduced in 2004. Of those, one million are active and spend 91 hours each month using the service. The company sells advertising on its software and Web site, both to video game makers and to mass market marketers, including Dodge, Pepsi and Unilever."
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www.bugmenot.com [bugmenot.com]As a casual X-fire user, I welcome our overloads (Score:5, Funny)
I can't wait to be playing Quake 4 or FEAR and get fragged. Suddenly, rather than hear my opponent or teammate, I hear a disembodied voice say, "You got wasted! How about you clean yourself up with Lever 2000, the soap that gets bloodstains our of anything! For all your 2000 parts, no matter where the frags end up!"
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What you haven't said (or at least that I've see
'broader network services'? (Score:2, Interesting)
what do you think that will entail? I am concerned about bloating.
Xfire is an amazing program, and most people I know online use it constantly, but it's memory footprint has been growing far too quickly. Right now it's using 25MB RAM. For most people who run demanding games, this is a significant chunk of RAM.
The only reason I have heard people not using t
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If you want to talk bloat, let's talk AIM which has become a very large CPU hog over the past 2 years. I used to leave AIM up and running in the background. It used to have a minimal memory footprint and never consumed CPU cycles. But lately, I've disabled it permanently due to all of the RAM/CPU that it was eating up *in the background while hid
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I still use Xfire, because it's the only IM client that lets me keep in contact with friends when one or both of us is in a game, but I disable it if we're gaming together.
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They'd better sell a shitload of advertising.
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i would say for an established user base, and a decent technology, and a fat cheque for Thresh thats a good deal imo.