Xfire is bedoeld voor fanatieke gamers en stelt hen in staat om te chatten met anderen, zowel binnen als buiten verschillende spellen. Men kan eenvoudig zien in welk spel de mensen op de contactlijst aan het spelen zijn om zichzelf vervolgens eenvoudig aan dat spel toe te voegen. Ook kan Xfire helpen bij het vinden van een snelle gameserver met nog vrije plaatsen, kunnen gamepatches en demo's via een eigen p2p-netwerk worden binnengehaald en is er de mogelijkheid tot voicechat. Op dit moment worden er meer dan 800 spellen ondersteund, waarvan er een aantal 'one-click join' en 'in-game chat' ondersteunen. De ontwikkelaars hebben versie 1.71 de deur uit gedaan met de volgende lijst van aanpassingen:
Release notes for 1.71:
Release 1.70 had a serious crash flaw and was replaced by 1.71.Technical Notes for Release 1.70:
- Added kill/death statistics to Medal of Honor: Allied Assault - Breakthrough.
- Added the most recently played game to the top of the Tools | Launch menu.
- Added the ability to detect all games at the bottom of the Tools | Launch menu.
- Fixed Xfire screenshots (Scroll Lock + S) for Battlefront 1 & 2 and games with 2x and 4x antialiasing.
- Simplified the add friend interface.
- Added reporting of errors when opening a file to save a personal file transfer from a friend.
- Fixed problem with extra line ending characters in chat logs.
- Fixed extraneous lines when ending a chat in chat logs.
- Fixed detection of Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne.
- Fixed joining servers with an rcon password.
- Fixed scrolling problem when resizing chat windows horizontally.
- Fixed drawing problem with maximized chat windows when the infoview is open or closed.
- Fixed support and in-game issues with Trackmania Original and TM Sunshine.
- New games supported:
- Mythos
- Soldier Front
- The Sims Life Stories
- Maelstrom
- The Curse of Monkey Island
- Escape from Monkey Island
- TMNT Demo
- Warhammer Mark of Chaos MP Demo
- Trackmania United
- Absolute Poker.com
- Doyles Room.com
- Everest Poker.com
- Full Tilt Poker.com
- Paradise Poker.com
- PKR.com
- Ultimate Bet.com
- WPTOnline.com
- Command & Conquer 3 Tiberium Wars Demo.
- Added a new in-client registration system. To see it, exit Xfire, edit your %appdata%\Xfire\XfireUser.ini file to set [ClientStatistics] RunCount=0, and then restart Xfire.
- Renamed some top-level items in XML-based skins. Unfortunately, these were not made backwards compatible, so existing XML skins must be modified. The top level elements MainWindow, ChatWindow, GroupChatWindow, InGameMainWindow, InGameAlertWindow have been renamed MainSkin, ChatSkin, GroupChatSkin, InGameMainSkin, InGameAlertSkin. Sorry about that.
- Fixed a problem with icons during Xfire game updates--after receiving a game update, most games would display with the Xfire icon until you exited and restarted Xfire.
- Added the /reconnect command to Xfire In-Game to reconnect Xfire to the servers if it has been disconnected.
- Added some support for using the mouse in the Xfire interface inside of games which is not yet visible.