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Actually, I was thinking about tickling this subject a few months back, but for some reason I didn't - I guess, I was just new and I didn't feel confident enough. Anyway, I'd like to stop PCGW contributors from linking files from Filefront.

 

I guess, many people may not be aware, but for me - filefront is always an issue. Every time, I want to download a file that is on Filefront, I get an error that file doesn't exist. For a while, I've been thinking - this actually may be a case... until I started doing some research. Turns out, the problems isn't file not being on a server, any more, but a simple denial of access to files in certain regions - this includes Poland and Italy for example.

 

 

Can I download Game Front files from any territory in the world?
A: Game Front file downloads are not supported in all territories. Below is the list of all of the countries that can download from Game Front. If you’re not in one of the below territories then, unfortunately, you will be unable to download files from our site. (...)

 

AD – Andorra
AE – United Arab Emirates
AF – Afghanistan
AG – Antigua and Barbuda
AI – Anguilla
AL – Albania
AM – Armenia
AN – Netherlands Antilles
AO – Angola
AQ – Antarctica
AS – American Samoa
AT – Austria
AU – Australia
AW – Aruba
AZ – Azerbaijan
BA – Bosnia and Herzegovina
BB – Barbados
BD – Bangladesh
BE – Belgium
BF – Burkina Faso
BG – Bulgaria
BH – Bahrain
BI – Burundi
BJ – Benin
BM – Bermuda
BN – Brunei Darussalam
BO – Bolivia
BS – Bahamas
BT – Bhutan
BV – Bouvet Island
BW – Botswana
BY – Belarus
BZ – Belize
CA – Canada
CC – Cocos (Keeling) Islands
CD – Congo, Democratic Republic
CF – Central African Republic
CG – Congo
CH – Switzerland
CI – Cote D’lvoire (Ivory Coast)
CK – Cook Islands
CM – Cameroon
CV – Cape Verde
CX – Christmas Island
CY – Cyprus
CZ – Czech Republic
DE – Germany
DJ – Djibouti
DK – Denmark
DM – Dominica
DO – Dominican Republic
DZ – Algeria
EE – Estonia
EH – Western Sahara
ER – Eritrea
ET – Ethiopia
FI – Finland
FJ – Fiji
FK – Falkland Islands (Malvinas)
FM – Micronesia
FO – Faroe Islands
GA – Gabon
GB – Great Britain (UK)
GD – Grenada
GE – Georgia
GF – French Guiana
GH – Ghana
GI – Gibraltar
GL – Greenland
GM – Gambia
GN – Guinea
GP – Guadeloupe
GQ – Equatorial Guinea
GR – Greece
GS – S. Georgia and S. Sandwich Isles.
GT – Guatemala
GU – Guam
GW – Guinea-Bissau
GY – Guyana
HM – Heard and McDonald Islands
HR – Croatia (Hrvatska)
IE – Ireland
IL – Israel
IO – British Indian Ocean Territory
IQ – Iraq
IR – Iran
IS – Iceland
JM – Jamaica
JO – Jordan
KE – Kenya
KG – Kyrgyzstan
KH – Cambodia
KI – Kiribati
KM – Comoros
KN – Saint Kitts and Nevis
KW – Kuwait
KY – Cayman Islands
KZ – Kazakhstan
LA – Laos
LB – Lebanon
LC – Saint Lucia
LI – Liechtenstein
LK – Sri Lanka
LR – Liberia
LS – Lesotho
LT – Lithuania
LU – Luxembourg
LV – Latvia
LY – Libya
MA – Morocco
MC – Monaco
MD – Moldova
ME – Montenegro
MG – Madagascar
MH – Marshall Islands
MK – F.Y.R.O.M. (Macedonia)
ML – Mali
MM – Myanmar
MN – Mongolia
MO – Macau
MP – Northern Mariana Islands
MQ – Martinique
MR – Mauritania
MS – Montserrat
MT – Malta
MU – Mauritius
MV – Maldives
MW – Malawi
MZ – Mozambique
NA – Namibia
NC – New Caledonia
NE – Niger
NF – Norfolk Island
NG – Nigeria
NI – Nicaragua
NL – Netherlands
NO – Norway
NP – Nepal
NR – Nauru
NU – Niue
NZ – New Zealand (Aotearoa)
OM – Oman
PA – Panama
PF – French Polynesia
PG – Papua New Guinea
PK – Pakistan
PM – St. Pierre and Miquelon
PR – Puerto Rico
PS – Palestinian Territory, Occupied
PW – Palau
PY – Paraguay
QA – Qatar
RE – Reunion
RW – Rwanda
SA – Saudi Arabia
SB – Solomon Islands
SC – Seychelles
SD – Sudan
SH – St. Helena
SI – Slovenia
SJ – Svalbard & Jan Mayen Islands
SK – Slovak Republic
SL – Sierra Leone
SM – San Marino
SN – Senegal
SO – Somalia
SR – Suriname
ST – Sao Tome and Principe
SV – El Salvador
SY – Syria
SZ – Swaziland
TC – Turks and Caicos Islands
TD – Chad
TF – French Southern Territories
TG – Togo
TJ – Tajikistan
TK – Tokelau
TM – Turkmenistan
TN – Tunisia
TO – Tonga
TT – Trinidad and Tobago
TV – Tuvalu
TZ – Tanzania
UA – Ukraine
UG – Uganda
UM – US Minor Outlying Islands
US – United States
UZ – Uzbekistan
VA – Vatican City State (Holy See)
VC – Saint Vincent & the Grenadines
VG – British Virgin Islands
VI – Virgin Islands (U.S.)
VU – Vanuatu
WF – Wallis and Futuna Islands
WS – Samoa
YE – Yemen
YT – Mayotte
ZA – South Africa
ZM – Zambia
ZW – Zimbabwe

 

Yes, a lot of it is my frustration. But this problem has been present for over a year now and Filefront didn't seem to take any steps to fix the problem (which is a shame, since a lot of people used to put maps and their fixes in there). What is especially frustrating is that they didn't even bother to put some kind of note that it's because region - all you get is "file doesn't exist" error message. And you're left in the dark with a wrong error message.

 

So, I'd strongly recommend and ask all contributors to avoid linking files from filefront, so that anyone can easily download a fix/mod/hack or whatever it's necessary.

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I've been gradually migrating links away from FileFront/GameFront because of this problem. All such links should eventually be eliminated; the same goes for any other region-locked download services (I don't know of any others off-hand).

 

For reference, here are all remaining links to these sites: gamefront.com, filefront.com.

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I think games that have Nexus Mod Manager support shouldn't have their Nexus exclusive mods put on the PCGW Files because downloading from a Nexus site with Nexus Mod Manager is so easy and simple.

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I think games that have Nexus Mod Manager support shouldn't have their Nexus exclusive mods put on the PCGW Files because downloading from a Nexus site with Nexus Mod Manager is so easy and simple.

I think we should cross-host these as well, just in case the Nexus site were ever to close or the user were to delete the file. We would leave links for both the Nexus site as well as our own rehost.

 

I'm not sure if we would be allowed to rehost them if they were Nexus-exclusive, however. 

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I think we should cross-host these as well, just in case the Nexus site were ever to close or the user were to delete the file. We would leave links for both the Nexus site as well as our own rehost.

 

I'm not sure if we would be allowed to rehost them if they were Nexus-exclusive, however. 

The Nexus network isn't closing any time soon, but it does have some server issues which make the Nexus sites pretty slow, so that's a good idea, but I am spoiled way too much with Nexus Mod Manager.

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So after countless days of uploading and research, all downloads currently linked to in this wiki no longer point to Filefront!

 

That being said, there is still much work left to be done. Links to Gamefront and FilePlanet still need to be added to the Files section.

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Gamefront is region blocked in Romania so I will not be able to get any files from it, I've previously lost tons of great things only because they were hosted on GF.

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For transporting purposes you can easily download the files from filefront by using a VPN or a proxy. If there is a list of files that needs to be uploaded to the pcgw server, I can help.

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