FilePlanet shutting down after 13 years

[garyopa]

Find some other place to store your mods.



Looks like IGN is going to close the file hosting site FilePlanet, which was launched on May 6, 1999...

If you didn't hear about it, FilePlanet is a VG hosting site that provides demos, patches, mods and other gaming media related downloads.

Being one of the first big file hosting sites during the days of Web 1.0 (along with FileLeech, now Game Front), this one was launched on May 6, 1999 by Gamespy, primarily to serve the then-rampant Quake 2 community.

Now, it looks like IGN is going to shut down the website. This is their official statement:

“We have decided to archive FilePlanet and will eventually stop operating the site,” IGN publisher Peer Schneider told Game Front. “A lot of things have changed over the last decade. A standalone site for downloads of videos, demos, or patches made perfect sense back then, but content delivery is much more integrated now. We believe that the idea of a single-purpose PC download site like FilePlanet is one that, unfortunately, has passed. We decided to deemphasize the site last year and double down on other opportunities. We’ll of course continue to run our beta program and game giveaways through IGN and GameSpy – and we’re thinking of ways to continue to help support the modding communities as well.”

Seems a banner was added along the top of the Fileplanet homepage hinting at the decision to close it down:

“Note: FilePlanet is no longer being updated and is in the process of being archived.”

Apparently, everyone who was working at the site has been moved to other projects.

So, if you have some mods stored in there, its a good time to move them.

But what happens to the files when they stop operating the site? “While the site will no longer be updated,” IGN told us, “for now users can still use the site as a repository of file content. If/when we remove all site content completely, we’ll be sure to communicate that to users before it happens.”

Are you going to miss it?

OFFICIAL SITE: http://www.fileplanet.com/

NEWS SOURCE: http://www.gamefront.com/breaking-ig...se-fileplanet/

Our thanks to 'Gauss' for this news story!

[Xenogears V]

I am worried about ign employers will loose job. Site is only a xbox and pc fanboy cave.

[garyopa]

I am worried about ign employers will loose job. Site is only a xbox and pc fanboy cave.

IGN has claim, that all employees have been moved onto other projects, or have left already on their own free-will before the news of the shutdown.

[kcvfr400]

I am worried about ign employers will loose job. Site is only a xbox and pc fanboy cave.

Your right it was subtle before but it seems like other than the pc and xbox sectiosn its a ghost town and not a good site at all.

[UltraPic]

Your right it was subtle before but it seems like other than the pc and xbox sectiosn its a ghost town and not a good site at all.

It has not been any good since gamespy took all the roms off (then sold their sites off to ign).