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Xfire Purchased, Team Leaving

Posted by kdawson on from the chat-on dept.

phorce phed and several other readers sent news that a system notification was sent out this evening through the Xfire IM client, to wit: "Xfire was bought by new owners today. Most of the team that has built Xfire over the last six years is leaving. We enjoyed working for you for the last 127 releases and wish we could stay to create the next 127. Good bye, good luck, and game on. — The Xfire Team." According to Wikipedia, the new owner is 3D Realms.

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  1. no buyout. by RyuuzakiTetsuya · · Score: 5, Funny

    At 127 releases; they were on the verge of an 8 bit signed integer overflow. I suspect one of the managers panicked and convinced the CEO to sell before they had a chance to launch another and have to start over from scratch anyway.

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    Non impediti ratione cogitationus.
    1. Re:no buyout. by ben_kelley · · Score: 5, Funny

      It sure sounds plausible, but do you want to know the real truth?? The 8 bit integer overflow is still years away. And technologies like Integer-NAT will push it out even further.

    2. Re:no buyout. by MBGMorden · · Score: 5, Funny

      Great subtle dry wit on IPv4/CIDR/NAT :)

      Yeah . . . I can just imagine you as a kid.

      "Hahaha. That joke's awesome! It's funny because the boy yelled 'Wolf!' but nobody believed him after lying about it so many times. Brilliant!" ;)

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      "People who think they know everything are very annoying to those of us who do."-Mark Twain
  2. Re:Why bother with seperate widgets? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    You aren't really familiar with what Xfire is, are you?

    Actually I'd never heard of it, and so had no idea at all, but thanks to the excellent summary I now have only almost no idea at all.

  3. Re:Don't rely on wiki too much.. by crossmr · · Score: 5, Funny

    You do realize who posted this story right? If you went by his house and scrawled "Aliens ate Sarah Palin using the new X75 fork from IBM" on his sidewalk in chalk it'd be here the next day as gospel.