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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. Sneaking, sinking feeling... by Anachragnome · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Sneaking, sinking feeling...and I can't shake it.

    Blizzard goes Facebook, China goes Facebook(-ish and pulls the same thing Blizzard did--Real Names>Anonymity...WTF is UP with that?), ICQ purchased by shady, Russian outfit(Digital Sky Technologies), now this...another 16 million users data changing hands.

    Why do I get the feeling that this is all somehow connected?

    EACH of these transactions (don't even get started on the China thing) involve tens of millions of users. Some, hundreds of millions.

    The thing that bothers me is the numbers. They appear to be growing larger and larger with each transaction(sales--partnerships peaked with the Blizzard/Facebook deal).

    Are these guys actually trading in data, then selling it again to other customers? Wouldn't that have the effect of "stacking" databases, a sort of cross-pollination that artificially inflates the total "pool" of data available for sale? If this data is being SOLD, this artificial "inflation", the repeated selling of a single product--data--could be analogous to flooding a market with counterfeit cash.

    In short, this market might be a pyramid scheme of Grand Proportions.

    Or maybe I spent too much time in the sun today...

  2. This needs to stop. by Jaruzel · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I don't need to see this right at the top of the comments [1]. I thought slashdot released stories earlier to logged in users or subscribers? If so, then how are ACs getting first comment?

    -Jar

    [1] Yes I know I can change my comment browsing level, but I shouldn't have to. Besides, thanks to the useless mods on /. there's a lot of good stuff modded down into the minuses.

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    1. Re:This needs to stop. by nospam007 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Subscribers post their frosty piss also as AC.

    2. Re:This needs to stop. by Inda · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      They can't comment before the rest of us, only read.

      And yes, you should have to browse above +1. It's why it's there.

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    3. Re:This needs to stop. by gorzek · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      I have Troll posts automatically bumped to 5 so they're always visible to me. You never know what sorts of strange things are lurking in -1 territory.

      But, yeah, it's usually just a puddle of frosty piss.

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