Archive for the ‘Announcements’ Category

Website Update: New Opening Messages/Backgrounds, Improved Sharing, Website Optimization

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

Yes. We’ve finally added new welcome messages. Check them out each time you enter the site! (Or you can just sit there and refresh the page)

We also added more backgrounds including Modern Warfare 2, Borderlands, Uncharted 2, and many more!

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Removal of PSN Trophy Tracking Feature

Friday, October 23rd, 2009

Two months ago, Sony opened up public profiles and trophies on their website. Within 24 hours, Raptr became the first service to support automatic trophy updates for our members. We were happy to finally be able to provide some automated services for our PS3 users and also rolled out a bunch of trophy related features including friend rankings and trophy comparisons.

However in the past several weeks, we had trouble getting trophy data from Sony in a reliable fashion. Unfortunately, Sony has made it clear that they do not wish to share their trophy data with other sites at this time. As a result, we’ve decided to turn off tracking of their trophies. Our goal is to always provide a reliable service that you can count on, so please accept our apologies for any frustration this may have caused you due to trophies not updating in a timely manner.

We’ll continue to keep our eyes and ears open for when Sony might once again share their data with services like Raptr, but in the meanwhile, we will be taking out all PSN trophies from our site. We expect all of them to be removed within the next few weeks.

PSN cards will still remain in everyone’s Raptr profiles, and those  profiles will link to your corresponding page on PSN. We hope everyone enjoyed the feature while it lasted, and we hope that Sony decides to be more open with their data at some point in the future. Raptr will continue to have all PS3 games cataloged on our site so that you can easily add them to your library, track your PS3 gaming activity manually, and let your friends know what PS3 games you like and play. And of course, we will continue to automatically track your Xbox and PC games presence as well as automatically track your Xbox, Steam, and WoW achievements.

Stay tuned for more new features and please visit the forums if you’d like to give us specific feedback or suggestions!

Website Update: Detailed Facebook Updates, Review Sharing, Consolidated Game Pages

Monday, October 12th, 2009

I know what you’re thinking: “Another update so soon?”. Well, we here at Raptr don’t mess around when it comes to adding features. This time around, we’ve added more detailed Facebook updates, the ability to share game reviews, and we’ve begun consolidating and cleaning up our game pages.

I’m sure you’ve seen those Mafia War updates on Facebook. They have giant pictures and descriptions and now we do too! Now when you play a game, instead of setting your status, Raptr updates with your custom message and adds it to your feed.

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Client Update: Feedback Uploader, Manual Game Upload (ALPHA), Stability Improvements

Friday, October 9th, 2009

We know that somethings don’t work 100% of the time but we try our hardest to get them fixed. With that said, we’d like everyone to help out by telling us when something goes wrong. When something breaks (ex: message doesn’t get sent, contacts disappear, etc.), let us know by sending your logs. Every log helps. To do so, just go to the “Help” tab on the menu bar, and select feedback. From there, you can choose to upload your log!

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Website Update: Game Library Filters

Thursday, September 24th, 2009

Wow, it’s been a while since we’ve had an update (well, just 2 weeks). This week we’ve added something that everyone has been wanting for some time now – a way to filter your games library.


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