FileFront is shutting down March 30th

[T9D]

It's not a joke. If you looked you'd see that not a single File has been added to the site since the 24th. Seriously, you really believe a site would do that stupid of a joke

At best maybe they are coming up with some last minute funding or something.

 

[Sam25]

Yes, it's still there and I can also log in with my Username and Password...

 

[Jack Flash]

http://welcome.filefront.com/

Guess FileFront was saved at the 11th hour.

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

 

[Sam25]

Originally posted by: Jack Flash
http://welcome.filefront.com/

Guess FileFront was saved at the 11th hour.

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

Yay! Awesome news...

 

[AstroManLuca]

Wow, this is indeed great news. Couldn't come at a better time - I was just starting to get into S.T.A.L.K.E.R. and FileFront is by far the biggest mod hosting site for both games!

 

[Coldkilla]

WHAT?!!?!?!?!?!!!!!!!!

Thats like the only site I download stuff from... Extremely fast downloads and no stupid ass lines..

There goes the days of convenience.


Edit: OMGZ IT WAS SAVED?! W000000000T! THANK JEBUS!

 

[KeithTalent]

Wow, this is indeed very good news. Nice to see it will be independent again. :thumbsup:

KT

 

[BladeVenom]

Good news. It was the game download site I used the most.

 

[pennylane]

Good to hear.

 

[duragezic]

Very good to hear. Cool of the founders to buy it back and keep it open.

How do they make money though? I can't imagine a few ads making the kind of money that their bandwidth and other expenses must run.

 

[DefRef]

File Front rocks. I'm glad the founders were able to reclaim their child from the clutches of the apathetic corporation and wish that DVD Spot could've done the same when CNET decided to kill it for no reason other than they were bored of it. Those bastages wouldn't even entertain selling it those interested in keeping it going. They just shut it down and said FOAD to the users.

 

[ViviTheMage]

woohooo, I wounder what they had to pay to keep it?

 

[thescreensavers]

Ziff Davis = the suck, they sold Techtv, I am glad people were able to save Filefront