FileFront closing down!

[pearfire575]

http://farewell.filefront.com/

Dear FileFront User:


We regret to inform you that we are forced to indefinitely suspend the FileFront site operations on March 30, 2009. If you have uploaded files, images or posted blogs, or if you would like to download some of your favorite files, please take this opportunity to download them before March 30th when the site will be suspended.


We would like to give a warm thank you to all of you who have been part of the FileFront communities we have built together. Your support has had a meaningful impact for all of us here at FileFront. Again, we want to give you a sincere “thank you” for your support over the years and wish you all the very best.


Keep gaming alive,

FileFront Management and Team.

Contact_us@filefront.com

Now i'm sad

[Zal]

Why are they closing down? Lack of funds or did they get sued?

[pearfire575]

Lack of funds it seems.

Took this off my guild forum, no origin link, prolly on the community forums.

Filefront to be suspended indefinitely on March 30
The financial crisis hasn't been very nice to Filefront it seems, the site will be suspended indefinitely on March 30 ... If there is anything you want to save from this site, now might be the right time to do it.

We regret to inform you that due to the current economic conditions we are forced to indefinitely suspend the FileFront site operations on March 30, 2009. If you have uploaded files, images or posted blogs, or if you would like to download some of your favorite files, please take this opportunity to download them before March 30th when the site will be suspended.

We would like to give a warm thank you to all of you who have been part of the FileFront communities we have built together. Your support has had a meaningful impact for all of us here at FileFront. Again, we want to give you a sincere “thank you” for your support over the years and wish you all the very best.

Keep gaming alive,

FileFront Management and Team.


EDIT: SOURCE => http://www.mmo-champion.com/index.php?topic=46349.0

[KvdM]

Lack of funds it seems.

?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Fool%27s_Day

[Chranny]

Lack of funds it seems.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Fool%27s_Day

?

It is not April yet.

[pearfire575]

They closed down the community part already (forums). Also they sent to various news site the closing part. And yet, they close on 30 march not even in april. Who'll live, will see.

[Bigfish]

I'm moderately annoyed they're trying to blame it on the financial crisis. I'd say their business model and lack of competitiveness when it comes to alternatives such as bittorrent, rapidshare, and youtube has more to do with their shut down than the seizing of credit markets or conservative consumer spending.

[pearfire575]

I'm moderately annoyed they're trying to blame it on the financial crisis. I'd say their business model and lack of competitiveness when it comes to alternatives such as bittorrent, rapidshare, and youtube has more to do with their shut down than the seizing of credit markets or conservative consumer spending.

I second that. Also, if you did take a look, you can't see any paypal donations or "slow" and "fast" account with free and premium accounts.

They didn't even try to keep it up.

Well, they kept it up till now. But i think that they could have popped some ads around the pages in all those years.

So, any good alternatives to where to upload 200mb+ sized videos without big restrictions? :whistling:

[KvdM]

http://welcome.filefront.com/

[pearfire575]

Just to make it clear for those who'll read it later and/or have FileFront blocked at work:

FileFront has been acquired by the original founders of the site and will NOT be suspended as previously announced. This is NOT an April Fool's Joke.


After learning about Ziff Davis Media's plan to shut down FileFront at the end of March, the original founders of FileFront made the decision to buy it back from Ziff Davis Media.


We're happy to announce to the gaming community that as of today, April 1st, 2009, FileFront is a completely independent company again and is no longer part of Ziff Davis Media. All previously suspended services should be active and working again. We thank Ziff Davis Media for their cooperation and willingness to keep the site and community alive.


Due to the very unfortunate timing of this event and related announcements on March 24th and April 1st (April Fool's Day), we'd like to make it perfectly clear that:


1) The March 24th announcement about FileFront shutting down was NOT an early April Fool's joke and Ziff Davis Media had every intention of shutting down FileFront by the end of March.


2) This announcement about the original founders buying back FileFront from Ziff Davis Media is also NOT an April Fool's joke.


3) We're making this announcement on April 1st because the deal was completed today and we want to bring all services back online immediately.


4) We would NEVER shut down FileFront as an April Fool's joke.


5) We are happy to be back!


FileFront has existed in one form or another (originally as FileLeech and Voodoo Extreme's downloads) since 1997. In the last 12 years, FileFront has become the gaming community's most comprehensive and trafficked library hosting millions of files for thousands of games while requiring no registration and providing uncapped download speeds. We look forward to improving FileFront and serving the gaming community for years to come.


Welcome home. Game On!


Email us, founders@filefront.com