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Man I’d forgotten about this.

This and vent were the first things I loaded when gaming (along with frapps).

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Unregistered Hypercam 2

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Remember installing it from my Medal of Honor disk. Was it Pacific Assault? I don’t remember.

I remember it being a thing I didn’t use. It was like a voice chat/messenger thing with a built in game browser like GameSpy, right? I used TeamSpeak and some other tool mostly over xFire. I didn’t know anyone else who used xFire so it was kinda useless to me. A lot of communication apps in the late 90’s/early-mid 2000’s had that unfortunate downfall for me. No point in using something nobody I would talk to uses 🤷🏻‍♂️

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I think most people used it to find servers to play on. I know that’s what I used it for.

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GameSpy man. Ftw.

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Oh, I remember. Some of the games I played a lot would just crash if I had Xfire running in the background.

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2013 was 30 years ago 💀

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Yee olde gamer

Remember Mplayer?

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I remember playing Jedi Knight on the Internet Gaming Zone

My back hurts

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It got forked into MPV and is still under active development.

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Remember heat.net?

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I have footsoldier dogtags still. 10six was my jam. Still alive via project visitor.

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Same on the dogtags. Never got into 10six; I was more of an FPS gamer at the time. Lots of Duke Nukem 3D. Lots of shareware Quake.

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Nice, I didn’t have tags, but I got the shirt. I really only played Quake 2 and Unreal Tournament

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Unfortunate project visitor is pretty dead last I checked. 10six is impossible without having a very active clan, your bases get decimated the moment you go offline.

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Hah, I had a promotional mix tape album from them - there was some good shit on there actually. Sneaker Pimps, The Crystal Method, etc.

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Pepperidge Farm remembers

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I was an mplayer user. They had plenty of quake team fortress servers.

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I remember i had an account with my real name on it. I lost the password so my name was forever associated with an Xfire account i created as an edgy 14 year old. I msged support and they were like the most stereotypical americans ever lol “We cant verify if that ID is valid bc you arent from the USA but we will delete it as a curtesy”

Thank god for the GPDR, this interaction would go a bit different today lol

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This brought back memories I didn’t know I had. Gosh I miss those days, I wish I had downloaded all the clips I recorded before it died. I’m sad now.

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There are some archives of the service here -

https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Xfire

Supposedly most of the videos, and 20% of the screenshots? I’m not sure if there’s a way to easily search the archive contents, rather than download.

There’s quite a few profiles on Web Archive too -

https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.xfire.com/profile/*

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Holy shit. Just found my profile that had stuff there like bio, pc specs and games/hours from when I was 14… I’m nearly 32 now. Wild …

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Used to play Duke Nukem 3D there, and I think one of the Quake games. Later games all came with bundled Gamespy and forced the installation on me, hated it so much I gave up playing online back then, and still never got back into it.

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This came up in convo with a co-worker recently. I had completely forgotten about it until he mentioned it and then, suddenly, a flood of memories came rushing back.

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Bring it back :(

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I had forgotten it until this post.

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God that brings back memories. I mainly used it for Halo CE back on Windows XP still in like 09-10. Joined a clan through Xfire that I played with a bunch. Used it a little for Minecraft too! Those days on CE were the best.

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I used this and Hamachi for years

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Ah yeah, I forgot about Hamachi! It was great for games that only supported LAN multiplayer.

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I used hamachi because no one aside from me in my group of friends knew how to port forward, but it didn’t work on my network and it took me 4 years to figure out it was because at&t has it’s own network on it’s dialup modems by default.

They still do that to this day with their fiber modem/routers! I hate it! And even if you do passthrough to have your own up for only your router, your ping is still never below 23ms because there’s two stop points in the chain, that and at&t’s dns resolution is ass.

Damn internet oligopolies.

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The nice thing about awful isp dns is it is trivial to make your router just serve cloudflare’s instead (1.1.1.1)

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I think I’d have to change it in their modem but I’m not 100% sure, I remember having troubles the last time I tried this

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That is if u want it for the whole network but u can set dns in ur devices as well. It’s usually under ipv4 section for pc and connections on Android.

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Terraria before proper multiplayer support was our prime Hamachi game. We had like 7-8 people from an internet forum playing on and off through our hamachi virtual network.

Awesome times!

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I still have my old terraria group instances saved with the eloquent passwords such as “butthole” and “42069” for ease of reference.

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I played a lot of sup comm fa on there myself. I also used gameranger as a match maker for some of my more…busted…games.

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