GameFront is closing, Bad news for some Doom 3 Mods .

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Read the full article here : http://www.moddb.com/groups/moddb/news/gamefront-is-closing-lets-save-the-mods#readarticle

Moddb said:

We are very worried that many amazing mods and addons shared only on Gamefront will be lost in 2 weeks time after the closure. So we are calling on our entire community to help us preserve these files and make them available forever. If you have downloaded a mod, addon or know of files on GameFront that are not currently hosted on Mod DB, please share them. You can submit content to Mod DB via the following link ...

[Avoozl]

Oh fuck, a lot of mods for many games will likely end up disappearing regardless of peoples efforts to save most of them.

Anyway it's probably a better idea to make a thread about this in EE since the site hosts mods for more games than just Doom 3 and people are more likely to see the news there.

[YukiHerz]

I feel for all those mods that will be lost.
Even if GameFront didn't allow me to download stuff anyways.

[Pencil of Doom]

Hmm, bad news indeed, i hope people who have mods from GF are generous enough to reupload them to Moddb.

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Some mods devs are gone , they may not even re-upload their mods .

[gameragodzilla]

Damn, first Filefront, now GameFront.

Download everything guys. And then upload it onto ModDB or something.

[Deleted_Account]

It's sad to see Doom 3 going the way of the Dodo. It's a great game that I still play to this very day.

[gameragodzilla]

What happened to Filefront btw? Did that shut down too? I remember getting a ton of mods on Filefront.

[Avoozl]

Filefront and Gamefront were the same place, they simply renamed and closed their pages for individual games.

[Tetzlaff]

Thats a shame... I started browsing the files to maybe discover some hidden gems I have overlooked in the past. But many downloads don't work for some reason.

[IMX]

It is pretty unfortunate to see them go, but I must say, as a latin american, I couldn't care less about their doomed (ha) fate.

Long story short: Almost 4 years ago, they decided to put a block on the vast majority of Latin American countries for no reason whatsoever. Naturally this meant that every mod hosted in Game/FileFront was inaccessible without a proxy. I have my personal thoughts about this situation and this (unsurprising) turn of events, but since they don't have anything to do with the topic at hand, I will keep them to myself.

Anyway, I'll be sure to back up Classic Doom 3!

[rampancy]

ugh its gamespy all over again.

[Avoozl]

Some people on moddb have already claimed to have a lot of gamefront/filefront content archived so it just may not be lost after all.

Also ex-volunteers of the Filefront community have created a new site named FilesNation

[IMX]

I was about to say earlier "It's May 2nd and somehow the site is still up". The site is now redirecting to The Escapist Magazine, so I guess they finally kicked the bucket.

I saved Classic Doom 3 ver. 1.3.1, the Classic Doom 3 soundtrack (which moddb doesn't seem to have a copy), a couple of D3 skin mods and even a few mods for Unreal Tournament 2004 (and by the way, a big deal of UT2004's modding scene's content was hosted in that site so...welp.)

I'll probably throw the download links sometime in the week for those interested.

[Tritnew]

Sucks to see It go, better get those DOOM 3 mods and reupload 'em guys, If someone's that generous at least.

[Tetzlaff]

I found a number of lost files on http://www.gamewatcher.com/games/doom-3 and on http://www.lonebullet.com