Filefront April Fools, lol...

lol... at the guys who figured it was shutting down. Power of the internetz.:P

I dont get it

I dont get it

Baselerd

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I dont get it

JigglyWiggly_

I totally called that when I realized today was the first.

The fact that they announced it more than two weeks before april fools day, fooled me. Also, to all you bums who aren't manning up, man up to your mistake!

best april fools joke i have heard so far.

Well if it really was a joke, im sure it got them a huge mass of hits to their site.

nice prank, they definitely got me with it.

The fact that they announced it more than two weeks before april fools day, fooled me. Also, to all you bums who aren't manning up, man up to your mistake!

LTZH

Oh, I just heard about it yesterday.

At least Filefront had the good sense to pull this prank a few weeks ago when it was actually unexpected and believable.

Maybe I'm just getting to be an old curmudgeon but I am really finding these so-called April Fools Day jokes stale. Maybe it was amusing 5 or 10 years ago but now it's lame and predictable. There's no surprise and the "jokes" (if you can call them that) are mostly dumb and obviously fake.

I wouldn't mind if this day became just another day on the calendar. Seriously, the whole April Fools internet thing needs to go away.

I first read about it in this thread.

http://www.gamespot.com/pages/forums/show_msgs.php?topic_id=26823943

I figured it might be an April Fool's joke but it's better to be safe than sorry so I started backing up their site. :P

Well that's a good bit of news then :D. They had me going from the start, glad to know it was only a joke.

Maybe I just don't understand, but it's kind of a bizarre joke to me and not really all that funny. I recall a lot of people having to move files around to new servers and what not. I have to think that, well, maybe it was a joke, but maybe there was some ulterior motive as well.

I tell you one thing...when I heard they were shutting down I was like " this doesn't make sense at all"

Maybe I just don't understand, but it's kind of a bizarre joke to me and not really all that funny. I recall a lot of people having to move files around to new servers and what not. I have to think that, well, maybe it was a joke, but maybe there was some ulterior motive as well. I tell you one thing...when I heard they were shutting down I was like " this doesn't make sense at all"

They fooled me good then. Announcing it in advance was very clever. :lol:

They fooled me good then. Announcing it in advance was very clever. :lol:

ssvegeta555

It wasn't a joke.

Wow I commend them because they fooled me.

Ok so to get this all straightened out...straight from the website http://welcome.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.

After learning about Ziff Davis Media's plan to shut down 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) The March 24th announcement about FileFront shutting down was NOT an early April Fool's joke and Ziff Davis Media had every intention of shutting down FileFront by the end of March.

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 shut down 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!

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You guys clearly can't read

http://welcome.filefront.com/

"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) The March 24th announcement about FileFront shutting down was NOT an early April Fool's joke and Ziff Davis Media had every intention of shutting down FileFront by the end of March."

You guys clearly can't read

http://welcome.filefront.com/

"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) The March 24th announcement about FileFront shutting down was NOT an early April Fool's joke and Ziff Davis Media had every intention of shutting down FileFront by the end of March."

The_PC_Gamer

Joke or not, I'm very happy that they'll keep going on. Filefront can be an ass to me at certain times, but it's still my main download source. Knowing that all the stuff I wanted to downloadwon't dissappear as originally thought just can't be described.

"Fool me once - shame on you, fool me twice - shame on me."

lol... Looks like Lugi fooled you all. Good work my apprentice..

That's great. Filefront's still alive.

I dont get it

seriously, it's not a joke when this was mentioned like over a week ago.

LOLOLOLOL!!!! Filefront really knows the GAME!!!

And all is right in the world again.

it's not a joke at all, filefront was shutting down, people saved it. The endnutcrackr

Wow. That was the best April Fools jo.....wait, what? Anyway, I'm happy to hear that it's back online!

lol... at the guys who figured it was shutting down. Power of the internetz.:P

OoLugioO

Check out the main filefront page and you are greeted with a page saying that is was NOT and April Fool's joke

read it for yourself - http://welcome.filefront.com/

wow Im aghasted :o they totally got me

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.

You guys are stupid they really did shut down for a little while by the way this is from Worldofraids.com

The fact that they announced it more than two weeks before april fools day, fooled me. Also, to all you bums who aren't manning up, man up to your mistake!

LTZH

This wasn't a joke. Ziff Davis was planning on shutting Filefront down, but the original owners of FF came in at the last second and bought Filefront back and are now planning on keeping it up.