Epic Games is delisting Dark and Darker due to an ongoing legal dispute
The game was already delisted from steam back in 2023 before being restored in June 2024.
Here's an article that takes an in depth look at the case that Nexon filed against Ironmace:
https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2023/04/18/understanding-the-dark-and-darker-lawsuit/
Isn't this the game that has a weird kernel anticheat which scrapes your entire PC every time it runs, hastening your storage device's demise?
I did a quick search but couldn't find any issue with their anticheat.
From what I could find, it's not a kernel level anticheat.
As far as damaging hardware, reading from a drive doesn't really degrade it much at all, the bigger concern there would be if it was writing to your drive a ton (but honestly you should worry more about Window's Page File system since that makes it possible to use your storage drive as RAM).
I found a post from one player on the steam forums with concerns about the anticheat because their system kept crashing, but that sounded more like an isolated incident (or more likely related to the Intel CPU issue that was confirmed that same year).
There is a highly upvoted review for the game which has concerns about the anticheat reading all files on a drive and "overloading your processors (ignoring frame-rate caps and going past it)."
I agree that reading every file on a drive is concerning, I'd rather any anticheat stick to just the game's folders itself.
However, I'm wary about their understanding of programs/computers if they think that anti-cheat software should be limited by, or has anything to do with frame-rate caps. Also, they don't provide a source for any of their information or how they tested it.
Most other cocerns about anti-cheat quoted that same review in one way or another.
IP/Copyright law is a fucking joke and a scam.
If the game is delisted and you have bought it is it still downloaded and playable.
This is going to vary from case to case.
In a situation where sales are legal and the publisher or platform later choose to remove it from sale then it usually remains available in your library for download.
But in a situation where the publisher never had a legal right to sell the product then they were never legally able to grant distribution rights to the platform? In that case the license offered to the purchaser is invalid and it may be pulled from libraries.
I wonder how this affects all the people who recently got a free premium pass from an Epic giveaway
Would you look at that Ross Scott is right again
RIP bozo. I should play this soon before they get nuked legally, huh. I've heard it's good.
It was good early on but my homie says it's pay2win trash now.
It feels more like a dance game to me. Boring and awkward choreographed moves in response to predictable monster moves. Once you've learned the moves, then you can pay and play!
Can't pay to win shit. My homie says your homie is trash.
fuckin quoting "the homie" lol. Just play it.
Damn. Did it still get put back onto steam? I remember seeing something about it being put back on steam, but I haven't really looked for it in a while.
Funny enough this is one of the early access games whose discord I follow, but I never pay attention to it
Yeah, you can see it here:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2016590/Dark_and_Darker/
I am assuming this is caused by Nexon?