After getting delisted in March, Dark and Darker will be completely inaccessible on the Epic Games Store later this year

Dark and Darker is simply a spot of a Schroedinger's video game, isn't it? Seemingly fleeting backmost and distant betwixt a authorities of being disposable for merchantability and being outright delisted. Back successful March, the multiplayer extraction crippled was delisted from the Epic Games Store, with developer Ironmace saying astatine the clip that the "decision appears to beryllium based connected claims made by opposing parties successful an ongoing ineligible dispute."

Now, Epic look to beryllium sending retired emails to those that person the crippled successful their libraries informing them that the crippled volition nary longer beryllium playable this twelvemonth (I've received this email myself arsenic I seemingly added it to my room astatine immoderate constituent contempt not having played it).

"We removed Dark and Darker from merchantability connected the Epic Games Store connected March 5 successful information of a tribunal determination successful Korea betwixt Nexon and the game's publisher, Ironmace," Epic wrote successful the email. "On November 1, 2025, we volition beryllium removing Dark and Darker from your library, astatine which constituent it volition nary longer beryllium playable via the Epic Games Store." Anyone that paid for the Legendary Status upgrade volition beryllium getting a refund, though those that bought Redstone shards won't be. Both of these are nary longer disposable for acquisition arsenic well.

The tribunal determination Epic referenced is apt the 1 from February, which recovered that Ironmace didn't infringe connected Nexon's copyright of task P3, a crippled that Nexon alleged was past turned into Dark and Darker utilizing stolen codification and assets. However, the tribunal did besides instruct Ironmace to wage Nexon 8.5 cardinal won (about $6.18 million) successful damages.

Ironically, astatine this constituent successful clip it doesn't look similar the crippled is being booted disconnected of Steam, contempt antecedently facing this successful 2023. It's a messy situation, 1 that I would conjecture isn't rather done yet.