Friday, September 8th 2017
Raptr Shutting Down this Month
Remember Raptr? It was a downloadable client for Windows, touted as a social-networking application for gamers, and supported communication via Yahoo! Messenger, Google Talk, Xfire while also tracking gameplay across Steam, XBOX Live and PlayStation Network accounts. It was a dinosaur that no one used even a few years ago, and only really got some traction among PC gaming enthusiasts when AMD bundled it as part of their "Gaming Evolved" application to offer their user base a screen capture and game optimization tool similar to what NVIDIA was doing with their (then new) GeForce Experience application.
Just about every service now offers what Raptr used to and, aside from being able to track gameplay across multiple services, often better too. No one seemed to really use it, or even like it I dare say, even when they offered points for simply gaming that could then be used on a rewards store. When AMD dropped support for Raptr in Q4 2016, and then launched their own Radeon Crimson ReLive Edition drivers for gameplay capture, it was probably the final nail in the coffin. To no surprise then, this week Raptr, Inc. announced that the service is completing shutting down at the end of this month. Farewell and adieu to you, Raptr, we shalt not miss thee!
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Just about every service now offers what Raptr used to and, aside from being able to track gameplay across multiple services, often better too. No one seemed to really use it, or even like it I dare say, even when they offered points for simply gaming that could then be used on a rewards store. When AMD dropped support for Raptr in Q4 2016, and then launched their own Radeon Crimson ReLive Edition drivers for gameplay capture, it was probably the final nail in the coffin. To no surprise then, this week Raptr, Inc. announced that the service is completing shutting down at the end of this month. Farewell and adieu to you, Raptr, we shalt not miss thee!
28 Comments on Raptr Shutting Down this Month
There is another service out there too that I cant recall the name of but made home to all the Xfire refugees. Their moderators and their customer service reps on forums were complete dicks and they were money hungry always wanted you to pay for this and that with ridiculous fees.
I miss Xfire and wish the service would come back. I miss the sound files that Xfire had. I basically stick to steam these days. Even though I cant get the in game chat to work with WoW or other non steam games.
Good riddance Raptr. You wont be missed.
I didn't mind using Raptr up until they started including their own streaming program. Every damn time Raptr had an update, it would automatically install their streaming software and initialize it to run when you launched a game. After Raptr started doing this I just said, FU and parted ways. I forgot about it until I saw this topic.
Raptr could have been really great had AMD actually put forth effort into it instead of letting it drift to the wayside. Oh well. Time moves on and what was once great is now obsolete or forgotten to a point that it's no longer needed.
Don't mind me. I'm just an old fart, antisocial single player gamer.
Also, never installed, used, or tried it. Waste of space.
well i will miss it ... after all i did win a raffle thru that software :p paid with the point you were getting just by playing your games normally.
Murdered souls suspect and a AMD starter pack for star citizennot really, ofc if you have the same opinion about GFE, it's logical ... and yep the game optimisation was working way better than GFE also, GFE was a waste of space, Raptr, a bit lessi had none of these issues o_Othere was no lack of anything close to GFE : GFE was nothing desirable, but indeed Raptr was kinda a better GFE on some point ... at last it was useful and rewarding during the time i used it.
for my defence : i stopped using it when i got my 980 to replace my 290 :laugh: so they probably updated it after that and went down the drain (funny ... it was not really AMD's fault :D since it wasn't their softwares )
on a second thought anyone used Overwolf ? (not recommended by Nvidia or AMD but by Logitech :p )
While others may not show you any love I'll miss ya Raptr, you were great for tracking game stats across services, letting me tweak multiple games on the fly without launching them when I got new hardware, and I still enjoy that copy of Sleeping Dogs Definitive ya gave me. Thx and sorry to see ya go.