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Liquid Ocelot

#1 March 27, 2009, 11:11:40 pm

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www.filefront.com
This is not a lie, on march 30th File Front is shutting down. The economy hit them pretty hard, now they have to shut down. I love File Front, it is the most accessible game/add on downloading site I have ever been on, seeing it shut down is kinda disappointing :/. Any forum member that have important files, RECOVER THEM NOW or else you will never see them again.
note: I posted this in the video games forum because this is a downloading site that is mainly for gaming. Also, if someone made a topic of this already please lock it as I didn't see one.

Last Edit: March 27, 2009, 11:13:14 pm by Liquid Ocelot

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Neophyte

#2 March 27, 2009, 11:13:51 pm

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Yea it is posted in projects & announcements.

Should have been here though.

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Liquid Ocelot

#3 March 27, 2009, 11:17:10 pm

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Quote from: Neophyte on March 27, 2009, 11:13:51 pm

Yea it is posted in projects & announcements.

Should have been here though.

my bad, didn't see it :/

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Standard Toaster

#4 March 28, 2009, 12:04:51 am

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its cool bro, i have that whole section collapsed.

also this is too bad, i had a free premium thing to filefront for a year or a few months or something, i never used it very often but it was a good site.

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Artis Leon Ivey Jr

#5 March 28, 2009, 12:06:13 am

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am i the only one who rarely if ever used this.

brian chemicals

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headphonics

#6 March 28, 2009, 12:11:05 am

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who cares exactly? the only thing i ever saw filefront used for was random game patches and wow pvp videos

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Jester

#7 March 28, 2009, 12:19:19 am

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filefront was a good host for a lot of modding communities :|

oh well, there'll be others.

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headphonics

#8 March 28, 2009, 12:20:50 am

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i mean, what's wrong with rapidshare/megaupload/all those others now?

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Jester

#9 March 28, 2009, 12:27:59 am

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nothing really, it was just nice to not have a wait/limits/etc.

i shouldnt have really said "there'll be others", i meant more like.. the mod/etc sites will just migrate to other websites.

still, is always sad to see useful websites ive used in the past die :<

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Vellfire

#10 March 28, 2009, 12:29:05 am

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i never liked filefront for some reason, i don't remember ever using it unless i couldn't find the file anywhere else

I love this hobby - stealing your mother's diary
BRRING! BRRING!
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Dale Gobbler

#11 March 28, 2009, 02:25:11 am

Meh.
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Filefront hosted like all of the JKII/JKIII:JA mods files at that Jedi Knight modding database site or whatever.. I remember that, but that was pretty much all I used it for.

m
o hap

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Sarevok

#12 March 28, 2009, 02:30:20 am

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Yeah, I've pretty much only ever used filefront if no other mirrors are available. I couldn't really care less about it shutting down...these things happen with sites. There's better sites out there for pretty much everything now anyway

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Ghost_Aspergers

#13 March 28, 2009, 03:56:49 am

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Quote from: Magical Negro on March 28, 2009, 12:06:13 am

am i the only one who rarely if ever used this.

It's mainly for gamers. It was good for frapses (user created ingame video, it streamed AND gave you the option to download in the original quality), mods, hacks, demos... it was good for game related file sharing in general. I didn't use it much any more (read: for gamers) but it still sucks to see it go.

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JMickle

#14 March 28, 2009, 07:53:47 pm

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its april the first the next day.

theres a chance.

but tbh, i never used this place.

www.jmickle.com

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Beasley

#15 March 28, 2009, 09:02:39 pm

:rite:
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Quote from: urban lemon on March 28, 2009, 07:53:47 pm

its april the first the next day.

haha yea right

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Maximo

#16 March 29, 2009, 04:30:27 am

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Quote from: urban lemon on March 28, 2009, 07:53:47 pm

its april the first the next day.

theres a chance.

but tbh, i never used this place.

No, there isn't. There are 31 days in March.

Put some sand in my roommate's sheets today...

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Grunthor

#17 April 02, 2009, 09:07:37 pm

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File Front is alive and well guys.

Quote from: filefront.com

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.

I'm amazed noone else posted this.

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Click a different link each day.

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CociCookie

#18 April 02, 2009, 09:30:16 pm

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And yup, definately no april fools joke, I can confirm that.

However I found my main problem with this site: no pausing and resuming. Trying to DL Archlord with internet which decided to cut out at 50% through the dl is not fun >.>

Last Edit: April 02, 2009, 09:31:48 pm by CociCookie

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`~congresman Ron paul~~

#19 April 02, 2009, 09:58:16 pm

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Quote from: headphonics on March 28, 2009, 12:20:50 am

i mean, what's wrong with rapidshare/megaupload/all those others now?

waiting periods, download limits, and filefront was always really fast (you could get 600kb/s from FF and MAYBE 150 from any of the others on a good day)

plus rapidshare and megaupload download viruses to your computer

That’s right, you have the young gaming with the old(er), white people gaming with black people, men and women, Asian countries gaming with the EU, North Americans gaming with South Americans. Much like world sporting events like the Wolrd Cup, or the Olympics will bring together different nations in friendly competition, (note the recent Asian Cup; Iraq vs. Saudi Arabia, no violence there) we come together. The differences being, we are not divided by our nationalities and we do it 24-7, and on a personal level.

We are a community without borders and without colours, the spirit and diversity of the gaming community is one that should be looked up to, a spirit and diversity other groups should strive toward.

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WillyFourEyes

#20 April 04, 2009, 10:51:34 am

Suffering like G did?
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Rapdishare and MegaUpload are zetta-slow in comparison to FileFront. I was mildly shocked to learn that FF was closing down, but glad when I learned that the original founders had taken it back.

The ~~troper~~ GW denizen formerly known as SiliconHero(-Virus).

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