Raptr - Facebook for gamers? Or so they say!

[schild]

http://raptr.com/

Kinda neat. Maybe. Neater than XFire at least.

[schild]

By the way, this is what MrHat asked about like 2 days ago. He wants this. So it's for him.

[schild]

Client found all my non-steam games that are like real games, automatically downloaded some patches for them, which I canceled because it reminded me to uninstall some shit. This is pretty amazing. I want friends. Someone else take the plunge. I like it more than facebook.

[Ookii]

Ghey!

[schild]

Scratch that, on rescan found all my Steam Games.

It is, however, missing some stuff like Fate.

Edit: Ookii, don't be a dick. It's an interesting web app.

[K9]

I think the comic over-sells it.

[schild]

I think it's just a comic. It seems like a pretty full-featured product and works well at what it does.

When it found patches for Company of Heroes, it tried to download the latest one. Didn't work, canceled the process and then found one that went from 1.7 to current and started downloading that. Zero effort on my part. Pretty rad.

[schild]

They need to work on console support, oddly they seem to have all the GBA/PS2/PSP, etc era stuff (the eras prior to this one in other words), but they were missing some PS3 games. Weird. Also, they need to follow niche games more closely.

[schild]

Doesn't seem to have any group or clan support. Dumb dumb dumb.

[MrHat]

On saw this on techcrunch today but didn't have a chance to check it out.

So it automagically updates when you're playing 360?

If, for instance, I'm on my PC and a bro is playing Gear of War on 360, I can see that right? 

[schild]

Seems that way.

Unfortunately it uses more memory than fucking Steam.

Closed for now. I'll watch it, but I fear Air might be the culprit. Adobe can't optimize for dick these days.

[Falconeer]

I am in, username is falconeer.

It looks interesting (and pretty useless), but somehow the website is completely unresponsive for me. Like 3 bytes every 3 minutes. Odd.

[MrHat]

Seems that way.

Unfortunately it uses more memory than fucking Steam.

Closed for now. I'll watch it, but I fear Air might be the culprit. Adobe can't optimize for dick these days.

Man, there goes my game-twitter-iphone app.  lol.

[Yegolev]

It only found 29 games on my PC, and not even all of my Steam games, such as VTM and Civ IV.  I'll let it cruise for a while and see what goes on.

[Big Gulp]

Jesus, game detection takes forever.  Anyway, I'm in sooner or later.  Username is Big_Gulp

[caladein]

http://raptr.com/cal

Going to try the client out in a bit.

[Fabricated]

Whatever happened to that "gamer facebook" that the guy who designed Napster tried to make?

Or uh, every gamer network that isn't Steam or Xfire?

[Trippy]

Bought by EA

[Ratman_tf]

Wow! Just like X-Fire I can sign up, tinker with it for about a month, and the forget about it.

Neat!

[Mrbloodworth]

I think it's just a comic. It seems like a pretty full-featured product and works well at what it does.

When it found patches for Company of Heroes, it tried to download the latest one. Didn't work, canceled the process and then found one that went from 1.7 to current and started downloading that. Zero effort on my part. Pretty rad.

Can you tell it NOT to do that?

[JWIV]

On as jwiv of course

[caladein]

I think it's just a comic. It seems like a pretty full-featured product and works well at what it does.

When it found patches for Company of Heroes, it tried to download the latest one. Didn't work, canceled the process and then found one that went from 1.7 to current and started downloading that. Zero effort on my part. Pretty rad.

Can you tell it NOT to do that?

Yes, there's an option to not auto-download patches just like with Xfire.

[Big Gulp]

I left it running overnight and it still didn't find any of my games.  Going through their forums there's apparently no information on why this could be.  And it uses more resources than Steam?  Buh-bye.

[Falconeer]

I received a meaningful newsletter:

Hi Drew!

Since you last visited Raptr, a lot has happened:

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And that's not all! To see everything that your friends on Raptr are up to, visit your Dashboard:

http://raptr.com/falconeer


Game on!
The Raptr Team

[schild]

Weird, because I got one that said:

Hi Schild!

Since you last visited Raptr, a lot is going to happen:

  *
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  *Your friend Drew is going to post that this newsletter was weird.

And that's not all! To see everything that your friends on Raptr are up to, visit your Dashboard:

http://raptr.com/falconeer


Game on!
The Raptr Team

[Viin]

Is there an app for facebook that does the same thing as this? Might be more useful to just do that than try and add yourself to *another* social networking site.

[Salamok]

Seems that way.

Unfortunately it uses more memory than fucking Steam.

Closed for now. I'll watch it, but I fear Air might be the culprit. Adobe can't optimize for dick these days.

these days?  Are you implying that they ever could?

[schild]

No.

[Yegolev]

Is there an app for facebook that does the same thing as this? Might be more useful to just do that than try and add yourself to *another* social networking site.

I have the GamerCard thingy but it works for dick.  I'm considering removing the Raptr Facebook app since a lot of my friends give less than a shit about gaming, plus the updates get in the way of my own witty status messages.  And it cannot tell when I am playing LotRO, as opposed to just the launcher/updater service running.

Besides, there's Steam.

[FatuousTwat]

Ghey!

Google Chrome is a RIPOFF.

[Yegolev]

Or, Keith can call up his bitch friends and tell them to get online.  Cazic isn't going to raid himself.

[stray]

And it cannot tell when I am playing LotRO, as opposed to just the launcher/updater service running.

Also, it leaves you open for me ridiculing you for playing LotRO. 

[WindupAtheist]

Fixed the comic for you guys.

[Yegolev]

Awesome.

[caladein]

Twitter integration works just fine, it's also very terse compared to some other XBL-Twitter apps.  On the Facebook side, I let the Twitter app handle the status updates.  For the Raptr Facebook app proper, the achievement stuff seems to non-functional.

As for the client... meh.  I hardly play PC games right now, so I had much of a chance to try it out.