Relic Fortress, a well-liked discussion board centered on the creation and sharing of Pokémon fan video games, has gone offline with no superior warning. The oldsters behind the location 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by no means hosted any of those information straight; as a substitute, fan video games utilizing a mixture of new and outdated belongings had been usually downloaded from locations like Mediafire and Google Drive.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 Fortress Twitter account posted a message stating that the location had been shut down “following a DMCA takedown discover.” Relic Fortress didn’t affirm who despatched the discover.
“Relic Fortress has at all times been a non-profit, ad-free, tight-knit group and we delight ourselves in what we have now achieved,” the employees defined within the message.
“Members have felt at dwelling, made associates, 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It’s with deep remorse that I’ve to tell you that the discussion board a part of this group, which was to show 10 years outdated this yr, has needed to come to an finish.”
Kotaku has reached out to Relic Fortress for extra info.
In accordance with that message, Relic Fortress had over 20,000 members and 65,000+ posts. Whereas the location is gone, the Discord server stays and is “not going wherever.” Relic Fortress employees additionally pointed to the Wayback Machine as a useful resource for folk seeking to go to the location transferring 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 web site proprietor Marin and supervisor Andy in a message on social media. The identical textual content can now be discovered on a largely clean web page that changed Relic Fortress final night time.
That is simply the newest salvo within the struggle towards Pokémon mods and fan content material. Just lately, a seven-year-old YouTube video that includes modded Pokémon in Name of Obligation was taken down, too. Some worry The Pokémon Firm and Nintendo—spurred by the success of Palworld aka Pokémon with Weapons—is perhaps cracking down on content material which may have been in a position to fly underneath 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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