The controversy surrounding Dark and Darker, an MMO that stands accused of stealing not just assets but also staff from Korean publishers Nexon, escalated over the weekend when the game was delisted from Steam.
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As we’ve reported previously, Dark and Darker—a fantasy MMO that was supposed to go into Early Access in April—is being developed by Ironmace, a team of mostly former-Nexon employees, and is in the same genre as P3, a title many of them had been working on at Nexon (and which has since been cancelled) before jumping ship.
As a result, a few weeks back Nexon complained and police raided Ironmace’s office:
Following this raid, Nexon filed a DMCA strike against Dark and Darker, resulting in the game being delisted from Steam. The request, made public here, says:
In response to the delisting, Ironmace issued a statement on the game’s Discord, saying:
That was followed by a longer explanation, which addresses Nexon’s specific allegations (such as the accessing of Nexon’s servers by developers working from home and the similarities of Dark and Darker’s story to that of P3), and which ends with:
