![]() The employee was the leader of a game development project, which had been tentatively titled P3, and was fired from Nexon in July 2021 after getting caught leaking “thousands” of files the project needed. In August 2021, Nexon reported a former employee, identified simply as Leader A, for leaking the game company’s data and assets while working from home during the Covid-19 pandemic. The raid took place at Ironmace’s office in Seongnam, Gyeonggi, with police seizing company material related to Dark and Darker. ![]() The drama continues.Dark and Darker, the massively multiplayer online (MMO) game developed by Ironmace Police on Tuesday raided the office of local game developer Ironmace, which is suspected of stealing assets and personnel from game company Nexon to make its own game Dark and Darker. Nexon, on the other hand, stands by its argument that the game concept and execution were stolen from them.Īt this point, all we can do is continue to wait on both the Korean courts for a ruling and now Valve to see if the Ironmace argument changes their minds at all. ![]() That last part is, at this point, up to a South Korean court to decide.ĭark and Darker lawyers and devs continue to argue that the only similarities between the two games are those of usual fantasy tropes, such as wizards and barbarians. "While the actual expression of plot, storyline, and characters certainly may be protectable, copyright doesn’t protect concepts." "Nexon claims to have created 'unique concepts, genre, plot, storyline, characters, and plans for the game' - almost none of which is subject to copyright protection," the letter to Valve said. ![]() This of course is a response to Nexon's claims that Ironmace made a one-for-one recreation of a game the developers were working on a prototype of while working at Nexon. Now their lawyers are asking Valve to bring the game back to Steam.Īccording to Games Radar, Dark and Darker developer Ironmace says "Nexon's claims relate to a game that Nexon never made and which does not exist". ![]() You can imagine the issues that would arise with that. Having been removed from Steam due to legal issues with Nexon, Dark and Darker delivered its latest playtest via torrent. ![]()
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