Ziff Davis has had a busy year. Waves of angst were felt through the gaming community over the loss of EGM when Ziff Davis sold 1UP to UGO -- many of us grew up reading that magazine. Today, another shocking dose of news comes with FileFront closing its virtual doors. As you can see above, the reasons are economic. Not a surprise, but it's still deeply troubling to see such tried and true sites go down like this.
UGO was unfortunately uninterested in acquiring FileFront, which probably led up to this turn of events. It seems surprising considering the site was actively used (and clearly enjoyed) by so many people, but it's hard to know what may have been going on behind the scenes. In any case, it's sad news indeed. Were any of you FileFront users?
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5:10 PM on 03.25.2009
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FileFront was awesome when I needed to download a demo or a patch and didn't feel like dealing with shitty download speeds or waiting in-line for 30 minutes.
Now they're taking my Filefront.
Ziff Davis, consider this war.
Goddamn it.
Oh well.. =(