{"id":216420,"date":"2024-03-23T16:52:30","date_gmt":"2024-03-23T16:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/23\/relic-castle-popular-pokemon-fan-site-to-shut-after-takedown-notice\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:20:01","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:20:01","slug":"relic-castle-popular-pokemon-fan-site-to-shut-after-takedown-notice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/23\/relic-castle-popular-pokemon-fan-site-to-shut-after-takedown-notice\/","title":{"rendered":"Relic Castle: Popular Pok\u00e9mon fan site to shut after takedown notice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/readwrite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/pexels-vincent-ma-janssen-1310847-900x600.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A popular Pok\u00e9mon fan gaming site, Relic Castle will be forced to close after a takedown notice was filed.<\/p>\n<p>The Digital Millennium Copyright (DCMA) notice was filed by a third party on behalf of the <a href=\"https:\/\/readwrite.com\/everything-we-seen-at-pokemon-presents\/\">Pok\u00e9mon Company<\/a> and Relic Castle would use several social media accounts to convey the news to fans. Relic Castle posted on X on Thursday:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"qme\" dir=\"ltr\">\u2665 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4oW0whJncL\">pic.twitter.com\/4oW0whJncL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Relic Castle (@RelicCastleCom) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RelicCastleCom\/status\/1770901435867361351?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 21, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2><strong>Has the Pok\u00e9mon Company filed a takedown notice?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>In a post shared to<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/PokemonRMXP\/comments\/1bkhnvg\/announcement_the_relic_castle_website_has_been\/?rdt=38275\"> Reddit<\/a> and<a href=\"https:\/\/discord.gg\/reliccastle\"> Discord<\/a>, the owner and manager of Relic Castle would post several items to inform fans of the site about the decisions taken. The message was posted with the comments locked and one of the Relic Castle\u2019s moderators was firm in this decision to keep the messages around the news above board, saying:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe community will need to wait a few days (at minimum) to see what happens next. After some time has passed, and more info has been gathered, we may open the topic up for public discussion. Yes, we are controlling the discussion in our community, as is our right as its leaders. We\u2019re not interested in being a place that hosts toxicity and spreads misinformation. As we stated above, Everything we know is detailed here, so if you have questions that aren\u2019t answered, there\u2019s probably no one who can answer them (at least right now)<\/p>\n<p>Relic Castle\u2019s guardians said, \u201cTPCI (The Pok\u00e9mon Company International) should not be contacted, as it was a third party who is authorized by TPCI to supply DMCAs and looks legitimate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The moderator of the Reddit post would conclude by saying \u201cPlease be patient, and rest assured that the Pok\u00e9mon fan game community is not going anywhere. This kind of thing happens and is ultimately inevitable. But it is not indicative of a massive crusade against fan games. Nor does it mean RC has gone away entirely and\/or forever.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><strong>What was Relic Castle?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The site was a forum for fan-made<a href=\"https:\/\/readwrite.com\/palworld-gets-its-first-raid-boss-and-its-probably-based-on-a-pokemon\/\"> Pok\u00e9mon<\/a> content that boasted 20,000 members and 65,000 posts across a 10 year history. This nexus to chat and share content will now be forced to close, but the Discord community will \u201cnot going anywhere and the site is still visible as an archive using the Wayback Machine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The custodians of the Relic Castle would say at the base of the post \u201cWhat will RC staff do next? Is there a new site, or will the discord be expanded? A: We don\u2019t know right now. Put love into the world today.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/readwrite.com\/pokemon-fan-game-site-to-shut-down-after-takedown-notice\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] A popular Pok\u00e9mon fan gaming site, Relic Castle will be forced to close after a takedown notice was filed. 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