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Viacom to acquire Xfire, Inc. for $102 Million

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We are very pleased to announce that Xfire has entered into an agreement to become a wholly-owned subsidiary of MTV Networks.

What does the acquisition mean to you? It means that Xfire is now backed by one of the world's leading creators of programming and content across all media. It means that Xfire will continue to grow and enhance your gaming experience. Xfire was created by gamers, for gamers. We will always remain committed to improving gaming with your friends. MTV Networks shares this vision with us, and they will help us to continue building Xfire into a larger and more exciting community, one passionate gamer at a time.

--- The Xfire Team

Translation: We're going to make it suck now.

I've enjoyed (other than the weird ads) the support, fast-patching, and awesomeness of this program since forever.

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KrazyTaco: So anyways, am I gonna start seeing crap Britney Spears ads and such?
KrazyTaco: And the program will start being "better geared towards teh nations youth"
KrazyTaco: Hip-Hopish default skin

What is the public opinion? Do you feel this will hurt or help the software?

And for those who are unfamiliar, Xfire is a program to chat with other friends online. It shows what game you're playing, and can allow you to join through Xfire into that server or TeamSpeak...and much more.

Well, I don't think MTV can actually make any kind of experience better.

I'm going to take a wild guess and say this change is going to make the program much more mainstream. Potentially, horrible.

Turning it into something as awful as ICQ and make it more of a popular chat program rather than a gaming tracking program?

I like this stuff. I like it based around stalking me in gaming:

http://miniprofile.xfire.com/bg/bg/type/0/lukage86.png

Well, soon everyone will like it. I wouldn't be surprised it MTV started advertising it on their channel or just their website.

It's definitely going to get some more attention because of MTV's influence. At worse, it could become as popular as Myspace. They'll probably just throw in a bunch of annoying MTV advertisements.

As long as MTV lets X-fire run its course it should be fine. If so then I believe X-fire maybe even better off since now it has Viacom behind its back and can expose more people to X-fire. Viacom in turn will probably use X-fire to track what kinds of games people are playing and maybe tune some of their programs towards the majority.

What is X-Fire? And I feel for you guys who actually use it. MTV's involvement is all shades of bad.

Its a nifty chat/gaming program to let you stalk your buddies. Great for things like BF2, where you can join your friends through the program rather than asking him to crash his copter to check the IP.

It shows the scores of everyone there, details about the servers, lets you join their TS/vent, AND you get a nifty profile showing how much time you've wasted your life away to PC games.

Don't the Olsen twins have some ownership of Viacom? Or do they own some other company? I'm not sure if MTV owning Xfire is the greatest thing in the world for those who already use it, but for the company it might bring in some more people. Therefore, I think it's good for MTV and Xfire, bad for the current users that are not into the MTV style.