TheDark and Darkercopyright controversy is a strange one. The devs, many of whom are former Nexon employees, wereaccused of stealing assetsfrom a cancelled project by their previous employer. Despitedenying the allegations of theft, the game was consequentlyremoved from Steam. This is a convoluted situation which, if the allegations turn out to be true, could result in developer Ironmace facing massive penalties. However, the story has now taken its weirdest twist yet.
It seems while Ironmace was in the process of providing evidence to mount its own case, one employee took matters into their own hands and started a GoFundMe page. As spotted byPC Gamer, over on the Dark and Darker’s Discord, an admin named Luci published a post talking about how much stress the team has been under due to the accusations levied by Nexon.
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The post claims that Nexon is simply using its financial superiority to bleed Ironmace dry. The post also contains a GoFundMe link so that fans could contribute to the studio’s legal fees. The page reportedly raised over $46,000 in less than an hour.
However, it appears that the Ironmace management wasn’t a part of this, and the GoFundMe page was started by an employee acting on their own. The page was taken down, and another admin named Graysun confirmed that while the page was legitimate, it was published “without approval due to a passionate member of the team taking matters into his own hands.”
“We have currently paused the campaign for now as it was prematurely announced,” they added. “We appreciate the enormous amount of support shown in such a little amount of time! We are very sorry for the confusion and will take the proper steps to resolve this within the next few hours. We will make another announcement on how the GoFundMe will be handled.”
$46,000 in under an hour is quite impressive, showing that Dark and Darker has fans who are extremely passionate about it, and want to see it back on steam despite the allegations being true or false. Only time will tell if Ironmace will make it through this.
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