Have only ever used Steam, what is Xfire?

It's a program that allows you to converse with other people. The special thing about it is that it's designed to work efficiently with videogames. It also let's you know what games other people are playing and such.

" It's a program that allows you to converse with other people. The special thing about it is that it's designed to work efficiently with videogames. It also let's you know what games other people are playing and such. "

yeah, But Steam is a newer thing and Xfire was around way before it came out, I think that Steam would be easier to use since it is more of an all in one thing now but before Steam Xfire was very useful

Xfire is redundant and awkward compared to Steam, and is constantly updating. I stopped using it some time ago, with the exception of trying it again to see their AIM client support. It does take screens if you're into watermarks, though.

I used it a few years ago when I played alot of COD2 but nowerdays it's just redundent since if you're playing PC games in 2009 you're logged into Steam.

it's a chat program that shows if you're playing games or not, and records your gaming time 
check mine out for example:  http://www.xfire.com/profile/ajayraz/

nowerdays it's just redundent since if you're playing PC games in 2009 you're logged into Steam.

Ah, Xfire. I remember back in the day when I was into Battlefield 2, Xfire was my best friend. I recall one time I joined a stat padding server and used Xfire to take screenshots of all the culprits and sent them to DICE. I doubt they did anything though.

Xfire is still the best Voice over ip software out there, who needs a ventrilo or teamspeak server when xfire hosts that shit for you.
It also has decent video and screenshot capturing/hosting, ingame chat, server joining for all games and much more.