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Filefront Closing Tommorow!

In case you guys didn't hear, filefront will be closing forever on March 30th, 2009.

Its a shame to see filefront go. I've been using the site for many years now. I'm going to be lost without it.

Here's to another awesome site that goes down this year... So for HOTU has been shut down and now Filefront. Two of my most favourite sites.

RIP Filefront!

bit early for april fools?

Isn't it the most popular site in that network?

hmm its seems odd for that but why they closing?

pfft, liek its closing, its an april fools joke FOR SURE. heck they may even go offlien for a while and everyone wil lactually be like "Nuuuuuu" and then BAM HE HAHAHAHAH "We got you good!"

:oh:

April Fools is Apr1st not March 30th... there's still another day in March also. Ummmm this is not a prank, a bunch of sites that used to be hosted by filefront have now moved hosts. If they would say this is a prank they would piss off probably 90% of the people that used to have sites hosted there and had to go move their sites.

I have no clue why they are closing though.

its March 31st, and Filefront is still up, im downloading a game from them right now.

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Originally Posted by Fubb (Post 358288)

its March 31st, and Filefront is still up, im downloading a game from them right now.

hmm - sounds like a real april joke - did you check any news on that site regarding closure

If that is real...well it's a bad taste joke.

yesterday it still said that they'd be operating indefeniatly or sumfin until march 30th, the sajme thing it said ony march 30th, 29th, 28th....

And what do ya know? It is April 1st, Sites still running, and they dont have that bar up there saying there closing.

David, we were right, it WAS a april fools joke...HIGH FIVE YA!

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Originally Posted by Fubb (Post 358416)

YAY i am right about that - HIGH FIVE YA!

if this was an april fool's joke they are going to piss off a lot of people. I've seen quite a few mod sites PAY for new hosts and move their sites over. Wow this is a really untasteful joke...

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Originally Posted by rsdworker (Post 358421)

YAY i am right about that - HIGH FIVE YA!

:p Oops :p

Point is, i think they LIED to the world.

Plus thinkabout it Burger Meister; The American Goverment pisses of millions of people everyday! And there still around!

I knew FileFront wouldn't close on such short notice. :)

I dunno if it's an April 1st joke - I heard that there were companies willing to invest funds so maybe they got a bail-out. As a joke, this would be very offensive since many MANY people wasted bandwidth getting everything backed up.

Mhhh...:mhh:

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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!

See, I was right ;).