Viacom Buys Xfire for $102 Million

Post by **Captain_Obvious** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 3:48 pm

Viacom Inc. today announced that it has reached a definitive agreement to acquire Xfire, the fastest-growing online gaming community in the world, for $102 million in cash.

http://www.xfire.com/cms/xf_acquisition
http://selectivegamers.com/content/view/492/156/

smantie · Post by **smantie** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 4:07 pm

I'll venture to say that if Viacom and AOL/Time Warner merge, they'd own everything except my soul and Wal-Mart.

Post by **special_Kare** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 9:27 pm

am i the only one who is sad to hear this news?

i love xfire just like i USED TO love all-seeing-eye, before they were bought by yahoo which turned it to shit. something tells me that the program i love SO MUCH, x-fire, will turn to total shit now thats it has become mainstream and controlled by MTV.

P.S. MTV sux total ass

P.P.S. for those that dont know what xfire is or dont bother using it, forget it , now its over

LD8242 · Post by **LD8242** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 3:36 am

That means they'll be about 8000 ads all over the client next update...
Agree with S_K about ase...

Flatus · Post by **Flatus** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 4:10 am

Man alive, talk about becoming multi-millionaires within 2 years time! I'd like to know what the long-term goals are now going to be & if it's not to my liking, then I'll be dropping it like a ton of bricks.

* thinks Viacom is becoming like Dell =

CraigManOwns · Post by **CraigManOwns** » Fri Apr 28, 2006 11:01 am

special_Kare wrote:am i the only one who is sad to hear this news?
i love xfire just like i USED TO love all-seeing-eye, before they were bought by yahoo which turned it to shit. something tells me that the program i love SO MUCH, x-fire, will turn to total shit now thats it has become mainstream and controlled by MTV.

P.S. MTV sux total ass

P.P.S. for those that dont know what xfire is or dont bother using it, forget it , now its over

Ditto

PHatHome666 · Post by **PHatHome666** » Fri Apr 28, 2006 11:17 am

I want MTV to play a lot more music, not shows w/o music
And no excessive amounts of rap, thats for BET

PIECER · Post by **PIECER** » Fri Apr 28, 2006 7:45 pm

Someone recently asked me if i had xfire and of course i didnt know what it was! Oh I think it was default..anyways someone else told me to get it...well now how dare you try to hook me up with a corporate giant!!!

Post by **Captain_Obvious** » Fri Apr 28, 2006 8:10 pm

Well, the other options are MSN (owned by Microsoft), AIM (owned by AOL), ICQ (also owned by AOL), Google Talk (owned by Google), and Yahoo Messenger (owned by Yahoo).

We're pretty much stuck with an evil corporation no matter what.

smantie · Post by **smantie** » Sat Apr 29, 2006 5:01 pm

I say fuck the corporations

I use MSN and AIM.. but I wrote a C++ hack/script to completely mess it up so that it does only what I want it to and shows no ads whatsoever. No corporations profit off me using it (they profit off advertisement sales) so I like it. I get a product I desire and fuck over a corporation at the same time. It's like Smantie's basic dream come true.

As soon as I find a way to get free hookers from this, I'll be living like a king...

pinkbandit · Post by **pinkbandit** » Sat Apr 29, 2006 6:19 pm

I use x-fire and msn!! Don't care who owns them! As long as i can use them to track my qoou's and hassle them when i feel the urge!!

pinkbandit · Post by **pinkbandit** » Sat Apr 29, 2006 6:21 pm

OH and piecer! About time u got x-fire!! What u playing at? LOL

smantie · Post by **smantie** » Sat Apr 29, 2006 8:41 pm

<<::still doesn't know what x-fire is::>>

Post by **Captain_Obvious** » Sat Apr 29, 2006 8:52 pm

smantie wrote:<<::still doesn't know what x-fire is::>>

http://www.xfire.com

smantie · Post by **smantie** » Sat Apr 29, 2006 11:37 pm

Refer to previous posts... I clearly (at least pretend) to know what x-fire is

PIECER · Post by **PIECER** » Mon May 01, 2006 9:08 am

Oh no pinkbandit I havent downloaded Xfire..I mean I only play assault on 3 servers...Qoou server is at that top of the list of course!