Last summer, Frogwares and Nacon went to court in France (where Nacon is based Frogwares is headquartered in Kiev, Ukraine) in a dispute over royalties for The Sinking City. “When Frogwares were then able to release the game on other platforms, like PS5 (in February) or via Gamesplanet, they included that DLC.”
That version of The Sinking City “belongs to Frogwares in its entirety,” the studio rep said. “By encouraging the gaming community via Twitter not to buy the game on Steam, Frogwares is once again sabotaging our investments in the game,” Nacon said.Ī Frogwares representative pointed out to Polygon that The Merciful Madness was “first made for the Nintendo Switch version of The Sinking City,” which launched in the fall of 2019, two months after the Nacon-published PlayStation 4, Windows PC, and Xbox One versions. Nacon said that “despite this blocking situation created exclusively by Frogwares,” it still made the game available to players on Steam (at least until Tuesday’s takedown) and that it would pay Frogwares royalties from those sales. “In the past, Frogwares has improperly relied on accusations regarding a lack of payment to refuse delivery of the game on Steam, at which point they tried to unsuccessfully terminate the contract,” Nacon said in its statement. In a statement provided to Polygon, Frogwares said that the version for sale on Steam “contains content that Nacon has absolutely no rights to - namely The Merciful Madness DLC.” The studio said it sent the DMCA takedown demand to Valve because it was “our most effective tool to give us time to gain further potential evidence and to also start the required and lengthy additional legal processes to prevent this from happening again.”Ī Nacon spokesman directed Polygon to a statement the publisher gave Tuesday about the controversy, and declined to make additional comment on the Steam DMCA takedown. The Sinking City is no longer searchable from within Steam itself, and external links to the game’s product page now redirect to the main storefront. “So we have responded to that notice,” Lombardi said. To Vice on Tuesday evening, Valve spokesman Doug Lombardi said Steam “received a DMCA take-down notice” for the version of The Sinking City that Nacon has shipped - the one Frogwares calls a hacked and pirated copy of their game. Frogwares, the studio locked in an acrimonious dispute with publisher Nacon over their game, The Sinking City, used a DMCA claim to have it removed from Steam’s storefront, a Valve spokesman confirmed.
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