Relic Fortress, a well-liked discussion board targeted on the creation and sharing of Pokémon fan video games, has gone offline with no superior warning. The oldsters behind the positioning blame a DMCA takedown discover for the sudden shutdown.
Relic Fortress was arrange in 2014 as a web based discussion board the place folks might speak about Pokémon fan video games, and will additionally share hyperlinks to obtain these video games from third-party web sites. Relic Fortress by no means hosted any of those information straight; as a substitute, fan video games utilizing a mixture of new and outdated belongings had been typically downloaded from locations like Mediafire and Google Drive. The boards had been only a handy hub for hyperlinks and gave the group a spot to debate Pokémon fan video games. Nevertheless, it’s all gone now.
On March 21, the Relic Fortress Twitter account posted a message stating that the positioning had been shut down “following a DMCA takedown discover.” Relic Fortress didn’t affirm who despatched the discover.
“Relic Fortress has all the time been a non-profit, ad-free, tight-knit group and we delight ourselves in what we’ve got achieved,” the workers defined within the message.
“Members have felt at house, made buddies, and even careers with us. It’s with deep remorse that I’ve to tell you that the discussion board a part of this group, which was to show 10 years outdated this 12 months, has needed to come to an finish.”
Kotaku has reached out to Relic Fortress for extra info.
Based on that message, Relic Fortress had over 20,000 members and 65,000+ posts. Whereas the positioning is gone, the Discord server stays and is “not going anyplace.” Relic Fortress workers additionally pointed to the Wayback Machine as a useful resource for folk trying to go to the positioning shifting ahead.
“Thanks all for being with us this final decade, and thanks for making Relic Fortress as superior and life-changing because it has been for a few of us,” mentioned website proprietor Marin and supervisor Andy in a message on social media. The identical textual content can now be discovered on a principally clean web page that changed Relic Fortress final evening.
That is simply the most recent salvo within the warfare in opposition to Pokémon mods and fan content material. Not too long ago, a seven-year-old YouTube video that includes modded Pokémon in Name of Responsibility was taken down, too. Some worry The Pokémon Firm and Nintendo—spurred by the success of Palworld aka Pokémon with Weapons—may be cracking down on content material which may have been capable of fly below the radar earlier than. For now, we don’t know who ordered Relic Fortress to be shut down, however for Pokémon content material creators and modders, it doesn’t matter. Issues are trying riskier than ever for them.
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