In its original iteration, this contract signed 2 years after game production started, established that Nacon secured the right to sell and commercialize The Sinking City on Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Steam, and the Epic Games Store. The Sinking City‘s release and resultant grievances between developer and publisher are detailed at length in Frogwares’ statement posted on August 25th, 2020.Īt that time, Frogwares’ marketing manager Sergey Oganesyan posted an open letter on Frogwares’ website, maintaining that The Sinking City had been pulled from Steam and other storefronts due to a violation of the developer’s licensing agreement with Nacon. This well-documented legal dispute originates in June 2019. New purchases of The Sinking City can still be made that are DRM-free for the PC on the Frogwares website, or through Origin, Gamesplanet, and the Nintendo Switch eShop.In the latest development of a lengthy legal dispute between developer Frogwares and publisher Nacon, Frogwares has issued a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) strike against Nacon following the reappearance of The Sinking City on Steam’s digital storefront. If true, Frogwares may have been left with no choice but to engage in this manner of scorched-earth tactic, obliterating anything that could be misappropriated by their former distributor. We have reached out to Microsoft about it, and hopefully, this will get fixed as soon as possible."Īs reported previously, Frogwares claims that distributor Bigben/Nacon is acting in bad faith, owes money to Frogwares, is attempting to lay claim of ownership where there is none, and much more. TheGamer reached out to the developer, who has responded by stating, "We assume it was a technical error, as we did not request the removal of The Sinking City from its owners' libraries. This is most likely an unintended consequence of Frogwares trying to protect their intellectual property.
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