Nintendo continues its fight against gamers

[Mikaruge108]

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Something shared by EeveeBailey in her art-related PU-server yesterday:


Am I angry? Yes, very so.
Am I sad? Yes, a lot.

Like, I do understand wanting to protect your materials and copyright-issues, but RelicCastle was just some fans sharing and creating something they are passionate about, with no shady businesses or something (least not that I knew of). I admit that I haven't been active in their forum for quite a while. But it regardless holds a special place to me, I always enjoyed their Game Jams and playing through the various entries. I more often than not was amazed by what dedicated and creative people whipped up. It was through the RelicCastle forum where I learned about the FanGame-projects I am still following progress nowadays, and it was through that very forum that I joined two by-now-cancelled Fangame-projects as an artist and designer of Fakemon.

Heck, Nintendo's being kinda aggressive as of lately, or so me feels.

Seht shared some info on that in the main PU discord as well. According to him:

1) The DMCA was actually done by a third party. This is actually the truth, I've seen the sources

2) I have confirmation that everything on that site was backed up before it was taken down

3) I'm not sure when it will be fixed, hopefully soon, we'll see
It was a much larger discussion over in flux because the only way he can get that game was relic castle.
Apparently this third party was authorized to do this by the pokémon company themselves
The worst part is that relic Castle is home to 65,000 posts and 20,000 members.
It is the only place you can get most fan game material.

I have no idea why TPC decided that Relic Castle was a threat, though. Selling of fangames? Plans to make a Pokemon-centric forum of their own? Kinda bonkers, really.