Relic Fort, a well-liked discussion board targeted on the creation and sharing of Pokémon fan video games, has gone offline with no superior warning. The parents behind the location blame a DMCA takedown discover for the sudden shutdown.
Relic Fort was arrange in 2014 as an internet discussion board the place individuals may discuss Pokémon fan video games, and will additionally share hyperlinks to obtain these video games from third-party web sites. Relic Fort by no means hosted any of those information immediately; as a substitute, fan video games utilizing a mixture of new and outdated property had been usually downloaded from locations like Mediafire and Google Drive.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. Nonetheless, it’s all gone now.
On March 21, the Relic Fort Twitter account posted a message stating that the location had been shut down “following a DMCA takedown discover.” Relic Fort didn’t affirm who despatched the discover.
“Relic Fort has all the time been a non-profit, ad-free, tight-knit group and we pleasure ourselves in what we’ve got achieved,” the employees defined within the message.
“Members have felt at dwelling, made pals, 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It’s with deep remorse that I’ve to tell you that the discussion board a part of this group, which was to show 10 years outdated this 12 months, has needed to come to an finish.”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 Fort for extra data.
In line with that message, Relic Fort had over 20,000 members and 65,000+ posts. Whereas the location is gone, the Discord server stays and is “not going wherever.” Relic Fort employees additionally pointed to the Wayback Machine as a useful resource for people seeking to go to the location shifting ahead.
“Thanks all for being with us this final decade, and thanks for making Relic Fort 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 Fort final evening.
That is simply the most recent salvo within the warfare in opposition to Pokémon mods and fan content material. Lately, a seven-year-old YouTube video that includes modded Pokémon in Name of Obligation was taken down, too. Some concern The Pokémon Firm and Nintendo—spurred by the success of Palworld aka Pokémon with Weapons—could be cracking down on content material that may have been capable of fly below the radar earlier than. For now, we don’t know who ordered Relic Fort 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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