FileFront shutting down
March 25th, 2009 Posted in Business
Ziff Davis has announced that FileFront, the popular download service that has been online since 1999, will be shutting down its operations “indefinitely” on March 30. FileFront has long been one of the most popular download sites and mirrors for patches, mods, tool and demos on the web.
Ziff Davis is looking to sell or close its videogame related businesses — last year 1UP was sold to UGO, who also expressed interest in acquiring FileFront.
You can read the farewell message here.
March 25th, 2009 at 9:55 pm
This is sad, I’ve been using filefront ever since day one!! I can’t believe you, Bush, how could you let this happen?! YOU ARE GOING TO RUE THE REST OF YOUR LIFE!!! ALL GAMERS WILL SUFFER BECAUSE OF THIS!
March 28th, 2009 at 10:54 am
Ugh man I loved filefront, especially the forums. I went on there daily and was an amazing site, its a shame they are shutting down…
March 29th, 2009 at 10:06 am
I grew up using filefront and fileplanet, and then fileplanet went into a charging spee, forcing old free subscription-based customers to pay for the service they’d been getting free for about 3-4 years. It was at this point i became thoroughly loyal to filefront, and looked always to find new game/ software and mirrors to be there, and they were. Recently, fileplanet has changed theur policy to enable the old free subscriptions to download files. I can only hope that fileplanet will never again cut us off until we pay for a subscription. farewell filefront; we litterally will be lost, finding mirrors, signing up for novelty sites just to download a file.
March 29th, 2009 at 5:11 pm
same as most ppl stated, im a regular user of filefront. I dont even remember when was the 1st time i used it. Its an end of an era for nerds like myself.