IGN is shutting down all hosted sites.

Mic · Post by **Mic** » Wed May 27, 2009 03:40 pm

What a depressing email. Gamespy is where I first got my feet wet at hosting a game site, and working on mods. But I am not the only one effected. What about all the other hosted sites over at planet blood. It feels like we are losing a piece of history.

I can understand that being hosted by a planet site today isn't what it meant about 10 years ago. Back when gamespy was king and the planet sites were our one stop shop for news and downloads. Games are becoming more and more corporate every day, along with our fan sites. But I guess that is the way everything is going.

File planet will remain, but a what can/should we do about some of the planetblood.com sites that will be lost on Aug. 31st. Ideas? Suggestions?

zZaRDoZz · Post by **zZaRDoZz** » Wed May 27, 2009 04:18 pm

Damn Mic. That is depressing. All I can think of is the Blood wiki site even though they can't do any file hosting. Filefront certainly can't be considered stable especially after that little stunt we had to endure back in April.

I Live...AGAIN · Post by **I Live...AGAIN** » Wed May 27, 2009 11:31 pm

No wonder they took my planetblood email away. I had that thing forever.

I didnt know they were shutting down the hosting as well. Guess I better try to archive as much from the site as I can.

Corbin · Post by **Corbin** » Fri May 29, 2009 07:48 pm

Yeah ILA - you should archive the entire thing, we could put it up on some other server with permission or something.

Yeah, that really sucks. The Planet sites of the late 90's - early 2k's were the best.

Tchernobog · Post by **Tchernobog** » Tue Jun 09, 2009 07:54 am

Speaking as someone to young to actually be a part of Planet Blood or even be aware of it at its heyday, even I am saddened by these continued warnings of its coming demise. Just looking through the archived content is enough to make you respect the website. It may even have contributed to my conversion from regular gamer to hardened bloodlite in 2007. I have already tried my best to backup what I can on my humble little Wiki, but as zZaRDoZz said we are without the ability to file host. I just hope that most of the valuable content will exist in some form after the dust settles from the demolition in august.

Corbin · Post by **Corbin** » Tue Jun 09, 2009 09:01 am

I will be able to file host, within reason, on my own server if it helps at all.

I Live...AGAIN · Post by **I Live...AGAIN** » Tue Jun 09, 2009 02:41 pm

Most files should be on fileplanet anyway, But I'm sure if Willis gets wind of it he would host.