As for why Ironmace is publicizing its substances Dark And Darker Gold, my first-rate bet is that it is making an attempt to reassure fans and ability investors of Dark and Darker's future, otherwise to tip its hand to Nexon within the hopes that the publisher might also withdraw its claims. I discover it hard to disregard the parallels with the saga of Disco Elysium, its developer ZA/UM, and its founding artists feuding with its moneymen, a warfare that is in addition getting slugged out in public thru duelling proceedings and public statements.

Dark and Darker is still kicked off Steam, so Ironmace is 'going vintage school' with BitTorrent for the latest playtest and fanatics are loving it

Back in February, Ironmace promised that there'd be one extra Dark and Darker playtest before the sport went into early get admission to launch. The state of affairs have become complicated rapidly after that, even though: A criminal beef with Nexon flared up, and Dark and Darker was deslited from Steam.

But Ironmace wants to push in advance with that final playtest, so it is doing things vintage-college—and I mean literally.

"Rest assured that we're working across the clock to shield the continuance of Dark and Darker," Ironmace wrote in a message on its Discord server. "Unfortunately, because of the complexities of our situation, specifically throughout international traces, it's far taking time to resolve the Steam situation. In order for us to hold our promise to our fans we’ve had to pass vintage school this time."

In realistic terms, that means that if you want to take part inside the playtest, you'll must torrent the new client Darker Gold. This has resulted in matters going on at the Dark and Darker subreddit: