Filefront closing

Dreamor

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Guess its tooooo expensive.

It seems that Ziff Media, the parent company of Filefront and in turn, owners of Elite Force Files, Armada Files, SFC Files, Legacy Files and Bridge Commander Files websites, will be shutting down in 5 days on March 30th!
 

Mabs

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ooer, bit of a suprise

more info on webby:

Dear FileFront User:


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.

Contact_us@filefront.com
 

ECA

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That really sucks, filefront was one of the best free filehosts out there ; ;

( and had a huge archive of game patches/etc )
 

Kryten

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Shame really but not entirely surprising, as sad as it is. It's getting to the point where in order to survive online you need to have a very close affiliation to the likes of Google. Ideally one where they pay for everything :)
 

DaGaffer

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That really sucks, filefront was one of the best free filehosts out there ; ;

( and had a huge archive of game patches/etc )

Bit of clue for you right there...
 

Dreamor

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not sure how many have seen this:

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 suspend 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) 1) The March 24th announcement about FileFront suspending its operation was NOT an early April Fool's joke.

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 suspend 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
 

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