File Panet shutting down

Steve Schulze

I've got no idea whether this will be of any relevance but given Polycount's history with Fieplanet I thought it was worth mentioning - as of a couple of days ago, it's been announced that Fileplanet is no longer updating and is in the process of archiving and closing up shop. If there's any kind of Polycount historical documents on there - old Quake models or the like, it'd be wise to grab them.

haiddasalami

Didnt IGN pick up Fileplanet?

ambershee

Jackablade wrote: »

If there's any kind of Polycount historical documents on there - old Quake models or the like, it'd be wise to grab them.

FilePlanet magically "lost" a large part of their old content a long, long time ago

Ace-Angel

FilePlanet was a nightmare long time ago, the waiting time are horrendous, the underhanded losing of content only to pop it back up through dummy links, and the 'people' behind the respective companies aren't exactly the grandest.

So yeah, a loss indeed, but one I cannot pity with due to the track record.

GarageBay9

Ace-Angel wrote: »

FilePlanet was a nightmare long time ago, the waiting time are horrendous, the underhanded losing of content only to pop it back up through dummy links, and the 'people' behind the respective companies aren't exactly the grandest.

So yeah, a loss indeed, but one I cannot pity with due to the track record.

Sad though that a lot of gaming history is going to disappear into the ether. We're talking stuff going on 20 years old, back to the late DOS / early Win95 era. I used to still be able to find stuff for MechWarrior2, the original Tomb Raider, and Total Annihilation on there.

leilei

The real files getting hurt are the ones that used hosted fp hosting rather than through the whole catalog. Also hurt most? Half-Life (especially pre-1.1), the "Captured" era, vintage TF maps, lots of Q3 maps (particularily, year 2000) and possibly all the good stuff for Quake 2 that's unrelated to Q2PMP, since Fileplanet was at its height around 2000 and the old planet download repositories moved there in '99.


It sucks that ign/gamespy acquired 3dgamers.org which had hosted a LOT of old and obscure games' demos and patches only to see them not migrate to fileplanet as promised.


Hopefully Jason Scott's doing something about this.

GarageBay9

leilei wrote: »

The real files getting hurt are the ones that used hosted fp hosting rather than through the whole catalog. Also hurt most? Half-Life, the "Captured" era, vintage TF maps, lots of Q3 maps (particularily, year 2000) and possibly all the good stuff for Quake 2 that's unrelated to Q2PMP, since Fileplanet was at its height around 2000 and the old planet download repositories moved there in '99.


It sucks that ign/gamespy acquired 3dgamers.org which had hosted a LOT of old and obscure games' demos and patches only to see them not migrate to fileplanet as promised.


Hopefully Jason Scott's doing something about this.

This.

We need to do a better job of preserving and protecting our history and heritage.

Paradan

leilei

FWIW most of the older hosted files (up to some point in 2000) are on a mirror at gamers.org.

leilei

Good news

http://archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Fileplanet

leilei

IGN's granted some access to the hosted files FTP, so all the hosted sites that used hosted file hosting (like polycount and many others) will be archived (planetquake is 109gb).



This may be good news or bad news (for those who used it for private files, I can see this becoming an issue)