Playfire - The gamers social Network

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Pretty much. They duplicated raptr, but when they started up they used very vague sign-up claiming you already had an account and needed to merge your XBL tag, etc. with them to activate it, requesting account name and password. Then, they would use your attached services (XBL most of the time) to spam your friends with invites without your permission. Tried an account and experienced it personally, when my entire friends list was receiving form letters from me daily telling them that "I" created them an account on playfire and they needed to claim it. Haven't trusted them since.

All personal opinion of course, but: Not a chance. And I don't even like Raptr either, on top of that, so...

Not in my opinion :P

They're both okay. It just depends on what you want out of a site. Playfire tracks PS3 games without needing your login info, while Raptr often gives out rewards* based on which games you've played. And you can manually track your play time on Raptr.

And Raptr has a desktop app which allows you to chat with friends and take screenshots, but I've never really found a use for it since I've got Xfire, which does a much better job at those things.

*Most of the time the rewards aren't all that interesting, though. Mainly addons for MMOs and FTP games, though they have given away full titles on rare occasions.

Xfire is the best imo without all that achievement and fancy ranks crap. Only thing that is an issue is the time it takes them to support some not so popular games. Though their beta looks bad right now, I hope they keep the old style.