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FilePlanet falling into the sun
13 years ago
I know this happened a little bit ago, but for those of you that are unaware, FilePlanet.com is in the process of being sunset.
We live in a day and age where it is not a completely useful service or viable business model anymore, so this is understandable. Games now auto-update, demos are served up via Steam, and trailers via GameTrailers and Youtube. The website is a dinosaur, that is now mainly used as a repository for all those aforementioned files of past games, that weren't web integrated in the way that games are now. But in its heyday it was the worlds biggest subscription game file website, and immensely useful for what it was.
After running the site for a couple years it hurts my heart to see it go, especially without any kind of send off after 13 years of operation, a whimper as it were... Godbless FilePlanet, and may we all remember the good old days.
Hurf
P.S. IGN stated that the people still working on the site had been moved to different projects and nobody lost their jobs, I just saw another article talking about the closure and one of the first comments was somebody saying, "I worked on FilePlanet and I can say this isn't true, I was just told that my expertise was no longer required by the company."
We live in a day and age where it is not a completely useful service or viable business model anymore, so this is understandable. Games now auto-update, demos are served up via Steam, and trailers via GameTrailers and Youtube. The website is a dinosaur, that is now mainly used as a repository for all those aforementioned files of past games, that weren't web integrated in the way that games are now. But in its heyday it was the worlds biggest subscription game file website, and immensely useful for what it was.
After running the site for a couple years it hurts my heart to see it go, especially without any kind of send off after 13 years of operation, a whimper as it were... Godbless FilePlanet, and may we all remember the good old days.
Hurf
P.S. IGN stated that the people still working on the site had been moved to different projects and nobody lost their jobs, I just saw another article talking about the closure and one of the first comments was somebody saying, "I worked on FilePlanet and I can say this isn't true, I was just told that my expertise was no longer required by the company."
kutztowndragon
~kutztowndragon
Wait, what? You RAN file planet?
Span_Wolf
~spanwolf
OP
Day to day operations yes. I was File Editor and Content Manager, official title. So by ran I mean was actually responsible for the site itself, not fancy management. We were a decently sized staff though.
kutztowndragon
~kutztowndragon
Get out!
Span_Wolf
~spanwolf
OP
The funny part is that I was ballsy enough to use the avatar you see here as my author avatar when I wrote the weekly newsletters for the site. In retrospect not the best idea, but on the upside some people found me on here because of it and I made some friends.
kutztowndragon
~kutztowndragon
That's cool.
