The All-Seeing Eye

The purchase by Yahoo! was a defensive move against acquisition activity by CNet and others, and a desire on Yahoo!'s part to tap into the hard-core gaming market.^{[citation needed]} At the time of the acquisition, All-Seeing Eye had over 12 million downloads, and was used by more than a million gamers per month.^{[citation needed]}

Months later, XFire was the target of a Yahoo! lawsuit over an alleged patent infringement, partly because Xfire's two primary developers were previously engineers on the Yahoo! Games team, where they had authored a patent (granted to Yahoo!) on messenger-based game play notification. The legal battle was resolved in January 2006 with details of the settlement remaining unknown.

In March and April 2008 Yahoo! sent emails to ASE subscribers informing them that ASE will be discontinued as of 15 May 2008 and that a $15 refund will be issued to current subscribers.^[3]

ASE has now been officially shut down, including all of their tracking servers. All games that previously used the ASE service will no longer display server listings. Yahoo! now redirects users seeking ASE to GameSpy Arcade, which has since been shut down also.

• The All-Seeing Eye former official site (archive)
• Yahoo's "videogames.yahoo.com" has been turned off for the time being notice (archive)
• Old forum (archive)

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