The battle between the development team Frogwares and the Nacon dealer continues.
Although The Sinking City was re-released on Steam on February 26, the internal conflict between Frogwares and Nacon was not over. After earlier, Frogwares warned gamers not to buy their game on Steam because it wasn’t the version they made, today they released a statement on why players shouldn’t buy The Sinking City. Steam version
According to Frogwares, they say that Nacon has infringed on The Sinking City, which was released on Steam on February 26th by bringing a “illegal” version of the game downloaded straight from the Gamesplanet website and releasing it again on Steam. Steam, which is the main reason why today’s games are sold, are legacy games that lack features such as Cloud Save, Achievement Cups, and DLC content.
Frogwares also claimed that Nacon had modified the ill-fated version of The Sinking City by replacing the launch games of the Gamesplanet logo to the Nacon logo. Also downloaded from Gamesplanet, Frogwares have leveraged a lot of evidence through their blog site. Here
However, the Nacon distributor immediately responded to the Frogwares development team, confirming that Nacon had the right to release The Sinking City on Steam (as of now). law The court ruled that it allowed Nacon to release The Sinking City on a digital platform.
Nacon said Frogwares did not respect the originally stated contract, Nacon clarified that during the development of the game, the Frogwares team had requested more than € 10 million to develop The Sinking City. After the game was fully developed and released, Frogwares tried to break the contract for their own benefit.
Nacon makes no mention of The Sinking City’s release on Steam right now, is it a pirated version of the game downloaded straight from Gamesplanet as Frogwares claims?
It seems that the licensing issue of The Sinking City between Frogwares and Nacon is even more complicated. In which if there is additional news updates, the GamingDose team will continue to report.
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