As Dark and Darker hasn't been officially released yet and is already embroiled in such legal troubles with Nexon, it's currently unclear if the game will make it to launch despite P3 still being unrevealed. Ironmace has also taken down a GoFundMe campaign that has added another strange stipulation to the legal dispute with the Maple Story dev in which they requested funds to maintain development while covering potential legal fees Dark And Darker Gold.

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Dark and Darker Devs Take Down GoFundMe for Nexon Court Battle

A GoFundMe campaign aiming to raise $500,000 to help Dark and Darker developers fight Nexon in court has been deleted.

The ongoing battle between Dark and Darker studio Ironmace and Korean publisher Nexon has had another interesting development, with a $500,000 GoFundMe campaign meant to support Dark and Darker's legal battle being deleted within an hour of its creation. Although the GoFundMe page was deleted, Ironmace doesn't appear to be giving up in its struggle against Nexon.

The legal drama between Korean studio Ironmace and Nexon can be traced back to August 2021, when a Nexon employee known as "Leader A" was caught leaking assets for a project with the working title "P3". Leader A was fired from Nexon as a consequence, and a later investigation showed that they had leaked thousands of the project's files to an external server. Soon after, members of the P3 team quit Nexon to join Ironmace in developing Dark and Darker alongside Leader A. Nexon contends that Dark and Darker has been built on stolen assets from P3, which has resulted in legal action and even a police raid on Ironmace's studio.

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An Ironmace admin named Luci on Dark and Darker's Discord server released an open letter and acknowledged that the team wasn't aware they'd be making the post, which called for the community to support Ironmace's legal battle through a GoFundMe campaign. The letter said that Nexon essentially plans to "bleed [Ironmace] dry" with expensive court fees and that Nexon even named a tutorial boss in its latest MMORPG "Leader of the Silver Sun - Terence" to mock the Ironmace developer buying Dark And Darker Gold. The campaign earned upwards of $46,000 toward its $500,000 goal in under an hour before it was taken down.