3D Gamers not exits more ?

[josilva23]

3D Gamers not exist more ?

Now http://www.3dgamers.com/ redirects to http://www.fileplanet.com/

[Narfous]

oh crap

there goes 99% of rare, original official game files from the games back then.

[Scaryfun]

Yeah, I saw note on their site a couple of weeks back that all their file content would be merged into FilePlanet.
It's a shame, after the original creator sold the site a few years back, it never was updated as well as it used to be.
In the past there were fewer 3d games to keep track of but nowadays there's almost no big game release that's not 3d.

We'll replace all demo & screenshot links with other sites soon.

[Lifeforce]

ohh what a x ....thats a shame but also noticed the site wasnt updated since several month anymore.A shame...

ausgamers.com is good Fast download and recently updated patches.

[HB]

oh crap

there goes 99% of rare, original official game files from the games back then.

Yep, and that stuff is not on Fileplanet. The notice about FilePlanet carrying "most" of the 3Dgamers content is bullshit as "most" is not the problem. It's the rare and older stuff that made 3Dgamers special and that content wasn't mirror anywhere else (at least not in its entirety).

[I_AM]

I think this was inevitable once it became part of IGN/Gamespy. I know I stopped using it as much after that, and probably many other people did too.

[HB]

I think this was inevitable once it became part of IGN/Gamespy. I know I stopped using it as much after that, and probably many other people did too.

To me it simply makes no sense. First it makes no financial sense to pay all that money to buy 3dgamers, and then kill the brand. It also drives away its traffic because 3dgamers users already knew about Fileplanet. If they wanted to go to Fileplanet, they would have gone to Pileplanet.com not 3dgamers.com. Second, computer storage is damn cheap, and IGN has plenty of web developers. If IGN was going to be so stupid as to kill the 3dgamers brand and website, at least it could have preserved the file archives and simply hosted the files in a designated portion of the FilePlanet website.

[Tadrio]

People try warning of this again and again, but nobody wants to listen. As soon as historical interest in games becomes more and more a topic, we'll have real problems on our hands.

Like in movies, a big part of the movies until the 1930s is completely lost. But then that was a real problem. Movies could only be watched at theatres, people could not have them at home. And film rolls deteriorate, even more so when they are not stored properly.

But games would be different. It's a mass media, risen to great popularity, and you actually take them home. Plus, archiving is not a big problem because it can be done cheaply, efficiently, and is relatively safe.

Yet a large part of the information about games as young as 10 years is already lost or endangered because people (and businesses foremost) fail to see that the stuff might still be of interest to anybody when it is out of stores.

It's like the crappy developers and publishers who take down official game sites 1 year after release. It's pure stupidity, because it doesn't safe you any money to take the stuff down.

On a related note: Cool URIs don't change