…a large majority of my friends today play console games. It was out of my frustration that there was no easy way to know when my friends were playing on various gaming platforms that inspired us to create a solution for it.

Raptr was not meant to replace Xfire, but was designed as a complement to it for people who play more than just hardcore PC games. I believe and hope that Xfire will continue to be an invaluable tool for hardcore PC gamers. (Of course, I’m a little biased as a founder of Xfire )

I used to play games exclusively on the PC - that’s not the case anymore. I found it frustrating that the only way to know when all of my WoW friends were playing was to log into the game because so many of them played on a Mac.
Some prefer Steam; some play web/flash/social games (not tracked by Xfire or Steam); some (especially WoW players) resort to using in-game friends lists because they have many friends who play on it on the Mac; and a large majority

We don’t support the entire PS3 platform as a whole, only certain games on it. We’re hoping that will change after they launch Home.

We appreciate the comments, though. We certainly aspire to make the experience as seamless as possible and your feedback will certainly help us determine what to work on next. We’re just getting started…

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No you don’t. I entered and triple checked my PS3 ID, not only does rank data, friends, ect.. not get imported, it does not update my status. Here is 3 pics in a Flickr set which clearly show me logged in and playing GT5 online and my status is not updated in the web or AIR client.

I am assuming that you have a PS3 on your side or emulation and you are adding the people to the friend list of that bot to grab the statuses, but it’s not working. Plus I didn’t see a “Raptr” friend on my PS3 friendslist, so I dunno if that’s even the case.

Have the network be as easy as a Mac. This is difficult and painful. Instead of leveraging your existing profile you built on the consoles, it makes you rebuild it out of gmail and other contacts.

It’s definitely not a Mac style plug and play experience. I’m going to wait it out for @home.

It doesn’t work. I signed up to Raptr, then entered my PS3 ID and logged into Gran Turismo 5, and signed on to the PS3 network.

None of my statuses were updated either on the website or the client.

It didn’t import any of my scores from any of the games I play on PS3.

If they had used the SDK to reverse engineer data out of the PS3 onto the internet outside of their own game, I believe that would have violated the EULA anyway.

XBox and MSN is no sweat because you can tap MSNP for Live, there are 10s of PHP, Perl, Java ect libraries to interface MSNP.

“You wish you cloned this idea”

No I don’t.

“but that the “SDK offers too much” and that an API would be better.”

The SDK doesn’t offer too much. They won’t ever make an API, as it would undermine @home.

I signed up to Raptr, entered my id. None of my PS3 buddies were imported, none of my stats for Tekkin, GT5, ect.. were imported, my PS3 online status doesn’t show up.

Not as advertised. I don’t have an XB360 any more, so I can’t say for that, but for PS3 it definitely does nothing. They insist on signup that you import all your gmail and yahoo contacts. What does that have to do with gaming?

It honestly seems to me like this is yet another SN that’s trying to use gaming as a premise to get you to import friends. It certainly doesn’t seem to be able to interface existing gaming profiles.

Anyone got the numbers on Xfire? At one time I thought it was the largest gaming network. I assume that it still is although the Steam client is getting more popular.

What? You wish you cloned this idea rather than some PHP scripts for a generic social network?

You and the “site locator guy” need to get off of government aid and all the meds you guys must take, and just go outside.

First one to make up the social gap(the existing N/Ws) and the second one for satisfying one’s personal passion(be it music,dance,gaming,alcohol,technology or whatever).

And that’s why such networks and similar core social n/ws like fubar will find success in securing their loyal audiences.

Any new entry in general social network category has a narrow possibility of survival,bcoz of over-saturation

Raptr is “priceless” for Silicon Valley engineers who care enough about gaming AND social networking - for the r99.99% rest of us - useless.