Team Ironmace For some time I have been fighting with the company Nexon Due to the PVPVE explosion Dark and Darker. The corporation accused developers of theft of materials used in its project P3. The confrontation is gaining momentum – Dark and Darker Lossed from Steam.

Network users drew attention to the deletion of the game from the site. In the Steamdb database, you can trace that the section from Dark and Darker Changed gradually. First they removed the video and screenshots, and then the turn and the page itself came on Steam – when trying to enter it, the store redirects to the main page of Steam.

Soon, developers published a statement in which they tried to explain the situation. According to them, they received a preliminary prescription and a DMCA-strik from Nexon, which are based on "distorted statements".

We are currently working with our team of lawyers to solve this problem properly. In connection with the delicate nature of the issue, we must be careful in our statements so as not to risk once again. We are trying to return the game as soon as possible. We hope for your understanding.

From the appeal Ironmace

Recall, Nexon claims that its former employees stole the code and other developments from the project P3 and introduced them in Dark and Darker. According to the company, fantasy explosion has a striking similarity with P3 in gameplay, rules and artistic style. It is also reported that one of the developers Ironmace Fired from Nexon It is for the drain of corporate information and asses in August 2021. After all the accusations of the office Ironmace Searches. As one of the developers writes, the police did not find anything.

With each new play test Dark and Darker attracted more and more players. The demo of the action also enjoyed success – almost 2 million people played it. Also, the probe became the most popular among demo versions at the February Festival of Games to be in Steam. The next testing of the project was scheduled for April, but it seems that now it may not take place.

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And it’s dark there, and here it is dark.

And there is a torch and there is a torch.

In both cases, purchased assets from the storage.

“Oh, you are dirty thieves, you stole the idea of ​​our canceled at the early stage of the game. And your game is much more interesting to people than our miracle. Outrageous!!"

And she attracted (at least the concept). And Nexon how bombed.

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This is some kind of curse. For some reason, all the multiplayer session games interesting to me are quickly closing. Evolve, Magicka: Wizard Wars, Spellbreak … Now Dark and Darker risks not at all to reach the release. It’s a shame.

Ironmace in their discord laid out DMCA from Nexon and the initial answer to it.

From the funny: Nexon substantiate their claims mainly at the registrations of trademarks made a month and a half ago while DND since August periodically in the public domain. T.e., Sorry, this is patent trolling. At the same time, they had the conscience to copy portraits of characters, because the artist Ironmace (and before that he was an artist Nexon) painted them in a similar way. How toxic this practice of registering trademarks for art is small significance for the industry, I think it is clear that.

Separately, Spanish shame provokes a "list of files that match P3 and DND catalogs". To begin with, they themselves cut down more than half of the files, because these are engine files. But it’s funny that ~ 90% of the remaining files are paid asses from the Asset store. There was no thought about applying the size of files and/or hashsumm.

The third ridiculous moment is a claim to descriptions and classes. Despite the fact that the classes there are a banal base of fantasy-setting (which can be found without problems in the Dungeons and Dragons rules), and the description of two lines is a real generic banal.

From what, it seems, there is something sane-this is all the same showdowns about the developer who has left Nexon and, according to their version, who pulled out a lot of files. Ironmace issued their version, but unlike the rest, here their position is more shaky.

"Dark and Darker fantasy-explosion was removed from Steam due to a copyright violation".

You notice the difference? Well, after so many scandals on this basis it would be time to know what DMCA is, how it works and how much it can be finally judged by its use that there are violations.

Spellbreak can be downloaded, incorporated, I posted goodbye to your game in two versions. For ordinary mortals, and for those who want their own server to organize. In general a separate launcher, the game is played. This is very cool, since no extra dances should be made to launch fan versions.

Eh, Evolv closed stupidly due to unsuccessful support.
There was no goal in the game, played out in the gameplay and quit.
The same savage constantly stands behind you and shows a finger, go there, now go there.

Spellbreak did not close very and quickly, especially considering how quickly it died online

Even I did not catch what kind of p3?

Abolved game from Nexon. Similar to Dark and Darker, only she was canceled, as they thought that she would not attract players.

P3 is the name of the internal prototype as I understand it, and they only knew about it inside the company.

By that pair of screenshots P3, it looks more casual, something closer to the typical Battle Royal. And this is another concept. T.e. It can be considered some ancestor to count it, the development clearly began in this form and grew into the DND, but that way any genre game can be grabbed by the hand.

We looked at at some point with friends there already somewhere, apparently closer to closing. Actually, at this stage, the composition of opponents was mainly from bots and cheaters. 🙂 In general, because of the bots, the game was quickly, but it already talked about the catastrophic lack of online.

This is just not difficult to explain-to have a bot in the detachment is something that many players would prefer not to receive without their permission.

I don’t know why suddenly such a denial of bots, but, frankly, I see no reason to argue about this regarding the already dead game. If I do not believe and other sources from the network, then let it be so.

I do not deny, I simply did not meet them, or did not notice them during the battle between several detachments. And with confidence to say that the player running through the fields, who receives a aimed shot with an ice arrow – bot, I cannot. Anyone can make such a mistake.

I would not say that the game is straight dead. It is quite normally played, yes, the players are clearly smaller, as it is now available only for PC, but still. Evolve also revived. Still NosgotH to revive … oh.

It was called p3? Otherwise even in the search engine I did not find anything at all.

That in my opinion it is very unfair. She looked quite interesting and was pleasantly played against the backdrop of all other battles.

And it seems to me in this situation is quite natural. I also played it for a long time until I was tired. Just the game did not receive proper care with at least some interesting updates to justify the hype. And just with a hype at the start she was extremely lucky – both the streams of people gathered, and the people were discussed enough, and the peppy, at first, the gameplay did not let him get bored. But the outfits themselves are to blame. Over time and in Steam, the topics of indignation and other things began to slip through, and interest began to fade away, and so to the very end without changes. After I dropped her, somewhere I read something more or less interesting, they still released it, but the people were no longer interested

There are many factors. There is little advertising, a strange battles pass, where almost every level was given premium.currency and who, well, swayed for a very long time. I am sure that the game was exclusive in EGS for a year also played in minus. The updates, although there were, are not very significant. Many runes are frankly useless and situational. And so on. But still it was interesting to play, cheerfully and the gameplay itself stood out greatly against the other genre games. Perhaps this is also the problem. For the most part, people do not like changes and something new.
I played all the last 3 months before the closure and the game was 5 minutes within 5 minutes. True, there were not always complete detachments, and if it is still normal in Duo, then it was quite difficult to take out the trio alone.

Given that the game was cross -platform, and, together with players from Steam and EGS, people with PS and Xbox played, the matches were quite quickly.

I won’t say it at the expense of the cheaters, I didn’t come across. Either there were those who did not pair themselves flights through the entire map and labeling.

I hear about bots for the first time. You don’t confuse anything? Of the bots there are only a guard who appeared around the treasures and they did not look like players.