what ever happened to xfire? did raptr really kill it that easily?

I only vaguely know what those things are and don't care about either. They really serve no purpose at all.

I continued to use Xfire until I got tired of it causing my Steam games to crash upon startup. I just ran out of patience.

I was a xfire user until raptr. I grew little tired of requesting to get games supported for xfire. :/ raptr seem to have all games (that I own) so far.

Raptr was made by the guys at xfire. Both raptr and xfire still exist. I think raptr is now owned by AMD.

Well considering it allowed you to connect your xfire to raptr yeah, there was no reason to use xfire anymore, especially since xfire was slow to add games and was causing issues for some people. Tho honestly, i only started using raptr for the rewards, and they've been shit for a long time, plus, if this sort of thing matters to you, raptr is a much bigger drain on system resources than xfire was.

The only reason to use xfire is for games raptr doesn't support like S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Lost Alpha.