The legal team draws comparisons between Dark And Darker Gold and other multiplayer games, such as PUBG and Escape from Tarkov. This is done to argue that the idea behind the game isn;t totally original, and therefore, couldn;t be based on an IP created by Nexon.

Ironmace sets out its own version of events, differing from Nexon;s greatly. Nexon says that Dark and Darker uses stolen ideas and assets from its own game, codenamed P3. However, Ironmace seems to suggest it doesn;t have much knowledge of this project, and also says it had been abandoned by Nexon - something that the publisher has said wasn;t the case, at least while the Dark and Darker devs worked at Nexon.

Furthermore, Ironmace says that aspects of P3 such as its story and characters had never left the idea stage, arguing that this would not protect them under copyright law.

Outside of the game itself, this counterclaim gives us some new insights into the feud between Ironmace and Nexon. For instance, Ironmace says that this dispute has been ongoing for two years, with Nexon even getting the police involved back in South Korea.

quot;After years of litigation and multiple police raids to buy Dark And Darker Gold look for the supposedly ;misappropriated; material, Nexon has found no evidence that any trade secrets were in fact misappropriated,quot; says Ironmace. The devs also say that this dispute will be quot;resolvedquot; in Korea, just as it bleeds over into the United States, where Nexon has launched its latest lawsuit.