Well, since X-Fire seems to be a completely pointless program with no other function than to create another outlet for self-promotion and self-advertisement, I really don't see what the problem is.
I could care less about people's profiles, video game playing history and personal opinions and I find is disturbing that so many people use this program that is created for the sole purpose of advertising those things. We have enough noise and garbage on the internet without adding "meta-noise": programs designed specifically to spread useless, pointless personal data about complete strangers.
In other words, I get free 100MB email from Yahoo, Yahoo is my homepage and I read Yahoo news and use its movie, TV and map guides. On the other hand, X-Fire is a useless program that should never have existed in the first place.
AND, before I hear any of this "the mighty heartless corporation is picking on the tiny, helpless new guys", let me just remind everyone that despite what the US Government likes to say in press releases, monopolistic business practices are indeed allowed to flourish and only when the US Governement can make a profit will it interfere in that corporation's business policies.
Don't be fooled, we do not live in a Democracy, we live in a country run by Capitalism and people who think Capitalism isn't a form of government haven't been paying very close attention to the way the US Government (or any other "Democracy" for that matter) is actually run.
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I agree with that totally. Xfire programs are useless, I dont care about the little xfire thing you shove in your sig telling me how many hrs. u've been playing, wtf is the point of that? I would much rather check my my email everyday that never gets full, and use my handy dandy yahoo toolbar that lets me create 2 custom buttons that I use daily. Moreover, why do you think I use MSN Messenger, but only use my Yahoo email? Yahoo mail is far better, ive never gotten full, and I probably never will. But MSN's Messenger is far better, hence why I use that. Heck, I dont even care for messengers, but they come in handy, well I dont see any of Xfires programs being useful to me daily... thats all I can say about that.
Peanuts.
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well I don't know much about it but what I do know from reading the post that it just tells you how many hours you play games. I see some on here like
59 hours for NWN this week over 200 hours from guild wars or whatever game
look that just tells ppl that your a gamer like me but I don't sit at my computer for hours on end.
there fun yes I know but do something else for a bit like
read a fav book or mag
read the paper or watch something on tv.
take a nice long walk around the park.
etc etc etc etc....
and there's nothing wrong with yahoo so I don't know why you even posted this topic.