Dark and Darker is a little bit of a Schroedinger’s online game, is not it? Seemingly fleeting backwards and forwards between a state of being obtainable on the market and being outright delisted. Again in March, the multiplayer extraction sport was delisted from the Epic Video games Retailer, with developer Ironmace saying on the time that the “choice seems to be primarily based on claims made by opposing events in an ongoing authorized dispute.”
Now, Epic seem like sending out emails to people who have the sport of their libraries informing them that the sport will not be playable this yr (I’ve acquired this e mail myself as I apparently added it to my library in some unspecified time in the future regardless of not having performed it).
“We eliminated Darkish and Darker from sale on the Epic Video games Retailer on March 5 in consideration of a courtroom choice in Korea between Nexon and the sport’s writer, Ironmace,” Epic wrote within the e mail. “On November 1, 2025, we might be eradicating Darkish and Darker out of your library, at which level it would not be playable through the Epic Video games Retailer.” Anybody that paid for the Legendary Standing improve might be getting a refund, although those who purchased Redstone shards will not be. Each of those are not obtainable for buy as nicely.
The courtroom choice Epic referenced is probably going the one from February, which discovered that Ironmace did not infringe on Nexon’s copyright of undertaking P3, a game that Nexon alleged was then turned into Dark and Darker using stolen code and assets. Nevertheless, the courtroom did additionally instruct Ironmace to pay Nexon 8.5 billion received (about $6.18 million) in damages.
Sarcastically, at this time limit it would not appear to be the sport is being booted off of Steam, despite previously facing this in 2023. It is a messy scenario, one which I might guess is not fairly performed but.
