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Viacom to acquire Xfire, Inc. for $102 Million
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I've enjoyed (other than the weird ads) the support, fast-patching, and awesomeness of this program since forever.
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. How ya doing, buddy? ![]() |
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. There's nowhere I can't reach. |
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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. I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body? |
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.
I was speaking idiomatically. |
What is X-Fire? And I feel for you guys who actually use it. MTV's involvement is all shades of bad.
What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now? ![]() |
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. How ya doing, buddy? ![]() |
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.
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