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Title: Gamefront shutting down April 30th
Post by: jr2 on April 19, 2016, 08:21:33 pm

https://www.reddit.com/r/StarWarsBattlefront/comments/4esjs0/gamefront_is_shutting_down_help_save_the_mods/


Might wanna dowmload all FSO mods hosted here for later upload before they get lost.

Dunno where best to post this, feel free to move it.

Does this warrant an announcement to notify mod authors?

Title: Re: Gamefront shutting down April 30th
Post by: X3N0-Life-Form on April 20, 2016, 12:33:16 am

I don't know, what mods are currently hosted there ?

Title: Re: Gamefront shutting down April 30th
Post by: headdie on April 20, 2016, 04:04:36 am

A quick search suggests that the freespace content on there is mostly mods to other games and the most recent files seem to be 2010

Title: Re: Gamefront shutting down April 30th
Post by: tomimaki on April 20, 2016, 04:08:02 am

Not many.
http://www.gamefront.com/files/listing/pub2/descent-freespace-2/

At least for me Gamefront was useless because I couldn't download files from this site.

Title: Re: Gamefront shutting down April 30th
Post by: Mongoose on April 20, 2016, 03:57:33 pm

I don't think I've so much as heard of it before.

Title: Re: Gamefront shutting down April 30th
Post by: Goober5000 on April 21, 2016, 08:20:30 pm

It used to be called FileFront.

Title: Re: Gamefront shutting down April 30th
Post by: X3N0-Life-Form on April 22, 2016, 07:48:13 am

OK, now I'm surprised that thing lasted this long.

Title: Re: Gamefront shutting down April 30th
Post by: jr2 on April 24, 2016, 12:12:15 pm

I seem to remember some All-in-one installers were hosted there, but they had backup locations / methods IIRC.  Wasn't sure if others had used it in the time since then, so just to be safe I said something.  Apparently it's not very popular at all any more (hence shutting down, lol).