Goodbye, Fileshack
Dear Shacknews community, As the clock reached midnight on New Year's Eve, we decided—like many of you may have--to make some resolutions for...
Dear Shacknews community,
As the clock reached midnight on New Year's Eve, we decided--like many of you may have--to make some resolutions for 2014. As unoriginal as this may sound, we decided that we wanted to get in shape and lose weight. And no, I'm not talking about our staff. (We all have beautiful, chiseled abs. Calendar coming soon.) I'm talking about the website as a whole.
When I controversially said "happy holidays" at the end of the year, I teased that big things were coming to Shacknews in 2014. While I can't reveal our plans quite yet, today marks the first step in our plan to shake things up. We're shutting down FileShack, effective immediately.
Some of you will say "what's FileShack?" Others will cry foul, reminiscing about fond memories of Times Gone By. But, a service like FileShack isn't really necessary in today's day and age. Steam and its ilk have automated game updates, rendering patch download services largely unnecessary. And truth be told, we didn't offer a competitive product with FileShack. There are better places to grab mods, better places to shack files.
By shutting down FileShack, we'll become a much more nimble site, being able to focus on the things that really matter: Chatty and editorial. As our close friend Jillian Michaels would say after berating us and making us cry, "you know when transformation happens? Right now."
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Dear Shacknews community,
As the clock reached midnight on New Year's Eve, we decided—like many of you may have--to make some resolutions for...-
It was a good run.
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RIP DON FILESHACK
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See ya fileshack. You were the best of the bunch back then.
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Oh no! Not the liquid gold!! :-O
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But where will I get all my mods now?
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www.filefront.com is good (now gamefront). It still has a huge backlog of files.
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I dont think i ever used it one single time, and i've been on this site for forty two years.
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Is Weekend Confirmed still getting shuttered?
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Based on what they said on a recent episode, it sounds like it.
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What did they say? I stopped listening about 6 months ago
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I don't know anything that y'all don't but I think it's still going to be hosted here, but Garrett is basically the force and money behind it now instead of Gamefly. They do nothing but link to it and host the conversation chatty's now. Take all that with a pile of salt.
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I'm sort of okay with that, because as far as I feel, Weekend Confirmed never really melded well with the rest of the Shacknews community, and Shack chatty community loyalty seemed to fall off heavier after Brian Leahy and Xav de Matos weren't regularly on it anymore. Most of the followers still seem to be fans from the 1UP Yours days.
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It was always more of a neogaf podcast with occasional quotes/questions from their weirdly segregated thread. That said I found the shack after following Garnett from 1up and then getting into the shack minecraft community so I can't complain.
On the other hand they have had Ozzie on quite a bit in the last year and he's done a lot with the chatty. I hope that either Garnett's new version continues to include him or the shack (or gamefly) does something new with him involved. -
I always felt that IdleThumbs and the BombCast were more in line with shacknews's sensibilities (or maybe they were just more in line with mine).
The old Shacknews podcast with Remo, Faylor, F. Nick Breckon, and sTeve was good back in the day...and I didn't mind the couple they did with Alice after Remo left. -
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But I got turned down when I applied years ago :(
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*Plays Amazing Grace on Bagpipes*
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Last Monday!
-directed by M Night Shamalan.
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Never used it, nore even heard about it. That pretty much sums up why it's going away.
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In it's heyday it was great and it actually made me sign up to the site over 10 years ago! Good that you've got rid of it though, time to look forward and try new things, I'm all for new features and ideas :)
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Thank you, Fileshack, for introducing me to Shacknews. You will be missed
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Hacked by NSA
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After nearly three thousand years of dominance, the tyrant has finally fallen. In the Green age, The Fileshack was our constant and only guide, our beacon and guide to life. But it was a cruel master, primitive and wrathful and trapped inside its own rage and suffering, aware that it could never be the great Power that ruled over other lands, and it took its wrath out on us. But we loved it anyway, and obeyed it when it commanded us, even if it hurt us and only rarely provided needed sustenance.
Now, our god has died. This day marks the dawn of the new age, the Green age is no more, and the Black age has become the new now. We are all stained with the marks of the past, but we must, as one, move forward. No longer will we obey a foul and undeserving, if well meaning, Godhead. We will forge our own path on the Great Internet and we shall become our own Service. Go forth, and let us reap this bountiful Internet with our might!!!!! -
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Definitely been close to a decade since the last time I got a file from the fileshack.
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I got something a few months ago but can't remember what. It was a patch for an old game.
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Prolly SimGolf. It usually is SimGolf.
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I would say that was it but I havent played it in a year or so.
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where is my tablet version Deathlove?
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Remember when we made that Shack BF1942 map pack and Maarten put it on Fileshack? Good times.
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That map was geographically insane. I'm amazed it worked as well as it did, in terms of gameplay.
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Ahhh the good 'ole days.
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Where should I get pc demos and patches?
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Fileshack, you were good to us for many years. Never forget.
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Well balls.
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Fileshack was fantastic back in the day of having to find a website hosting whatever patch you needed. All the other sites were filled with ads, clickbait, logins to spam you, etc and then downloaded like it was hosted off some guys home internet.
It makes sense to shut it down now though I haven't downloaded a patch that wasn't from steam or publisher portal in a long time. It's nice that it's all handled automatically and with decent hosting.
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ahh yes, good old Gamer Shell.
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Mirror for anyone that wants to grab it, www.shugashed.com/PA_EP01-33.rar
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Fileshack was how i discovered this place around 11 years ago. I used it exclusively to download patches etc, and every now and then i would notice the Chatty link and give it a click. I couldn't understand the layout (???) and it was full of weirdos so i would close it and go back to my Fileshacking. I know i lurk far more than i contribute to this place, but i don't know how i would function without it.
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It outlived FilePlanet (which had its shutdown announced May 2012).
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Pretty much without sites like this it will be that much harder to get patches for legacy games. Not going to be fun trudging through semi-safe sites trying to get a patch for some these.
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We all go to the NeoGAF refugee camps and wait for our visas.
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As someone who treats neogaf as his second internet home after the shack, I don't see that as a viable option. Too hard to get an account and its way too easy to get band there.
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That's why I said refugee camps. Everyone will be cramped in and then when someone comes in with visas we all trample over each other.
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I've tried signing up twice, using my work email, and got rejected both times. I don't think I care enough to try any more than that.
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Chatty is the one of the best things going on at Shacknews, it will not die!
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Why not PST?
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Shut it down Spool it up Clay!
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Just think, at least you get easier vanity searches out of it
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RIP Fileshack :(
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RIP, Fileshack!
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That's ok, take the Front Page next! Leave LatestChatty alone though.
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It is really weird because I remember when they launched Fileshack (though it seems like a long time ago even to me...and I'm a guy who feels like the Gamecube isn't that old and the Wii, 360, and PS3 launches were recent. Hell, HL2 seems like a recent game to me.
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I remember I made a map for FEAR and uploaded it to Fileshack and I got a mention in Evening Reading. It felt awesome.
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Why don't you take away profiles, too? Oh wait.
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Where else can we get counterstrike now?
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For real though when and where can I grab the Shacknews Calendar?
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i want to down loud slender game
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hey i cannot able to download GFWLsetup.exe 28mb
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