Dark and Darker: Now free to play.
Dark and Darker: Now free to play.
An unforgiving hardcore fantasy FPS dungeon PvPvE adventure. Band together with your friends and use your courage, wits, and cunning to uncover mythical treasures, defeat gruesome monsters, while staying one step ahead of the other devious treasure-hunters.
They have their own launcher, they can suck a dick
It was on Steam, up until Nexon sued them because they suspected stolen assets were used.
So far it doesn't look like that was true, and the case that was filed in the U.S. was eventually dismissed (since it should be handled by the courts in South Korea).
So hopefully we'll see it back in the steam store, eventually.
That's not entirely accurate. Not entirely inaccurate either.
Firstly to clarify, as for the dismissal, it's due to forum inconvienience. They had to file in Washington though due to the terms of steam that state any conflict must first be brought up in a Washington court.
Secondly, the suit was for much more than than. The assets weren't stolen and this was never an accusation. The accusation is that d.a.d used research and development created by Nexon to bypass large amount of work in order to create the game. This included the decision on what assets to use, and how to modify them to fit the game. The evidence on this is strong. This on top of abilities, classes used, weapons and fighting mechanics, magic items, animation style, etc. were one to one matches to their former employers.
We must acknowledge the founders worked for nexon previous to starting dark and darker and they worked on a game with the exact premise. This is not disputed.
Thirdly, the guy admitted to stealing company information, agreed to destroy it, and failed to do so while lying about it. They had also, in company emails, messaged other employees about quitting to start a game with the same premise while still working at nexon.
There's alot more there and honestly I don't see a world in which they're in the right. Still though, fuck nexon, trash company, trash employers. What the d.a.d devs did was wrong, but gladly they did it to a company that deserves it.
And I would've tried on the steam Deck.
Well, it was promising for a little while, at least. Jokes on all of us supporters for trusting them.
::womp.wommmp::
Joke's on us for trusting them to do what?
Trusting them to not get sued :(
It looked like a first person diablo, but just turned out to be medieval tarkov. And to boot, it doesn't support linux 🤷
Edit: wait... "now free to play"? Wasn't it always free to play?
Is this the game that was in embroiled in controversy about stealing assets?
Yeah, it looks like Nexon was trying to crush their competition (there was a lead developer that left Nexon and went to work on Dark and Darker).
The police didn't find anything obvious when they investigated Nexon's allegations. And they had already had an audit conducted by an external group:
Our code was built from scratch. Most of our assets are purchased from the Unreal marketplace. All other assets and all game designs docs were created inhouse. This has already been audited by an outside agency. As far as we know you cannot copyright a game genre.
https://www.vg247.com/dark-and-darker-devs-raided-by-police-following-accusations-of-stolen-assets
The lawsuit that Nexon filed in the U.S. was eventually dismissed, but Steam pulled the game from their store, so that damage was already done:
https://gamerant.com/dark-and-darker-nexon-lawsuit-dismissed/
I'm waiting in the sequel: Dark and Darkerer
PvP? I thought it was PvE
PvPvE
Different teams are thrown in around a map, you then work with your team to try to survive and make it out to the end.
You don't have to engage other players on other teams, but chances are they'll engage you.