![]() Update: Frogwares has escalated the situation by DMCAing The Sinking City on Steam Nacon has released a statement in response.Frogwares has now put out a performance patch for The Sinking City on consoles, with some free bonus DLC thrown in as an apology to the players. We've reached out to Nacon for comment and will update this article when we receive a reply. I've captured the broad strokes of what's going on with the situation you can read Frogwares' full breakdown of The Sinking City's latest release on Steam and judge for yourself. This version was then offered by Nacon to all the listed legitimate distribution sites without them being informed that this is a pirated version."įrogwares has stated its intent to pursue legal action against Nacon. Nacon then submitted this version to Steam who were in no way informed of the game’s pirated state. ![]() "We believe that the Gamesplanet version was purchased legally by Nacon through the Gamesplanet site and then hacked. "Let it be made extremely clear here, that we still fully trust Steam and Gamesplanet," Frogwares' statement read. "We therefore opened the packages and we identified immediately in the config files the version that was stolen and hacked: it is a commercial version coming from the site Gamesplanet that was purchased by Nacon like any other player."įrogwares states that it believes neither Steam nor Gamesplanet did anything wrong here rather, it asserts that Nacon legally purchased a version of the game from Gamesplanet, modified it without Frogwares' permission, and then uploaded that modified version to Steam without informing Valve of its origin. "What we did is that we downloaded the Steam version that Nacon commercialized, and we used our own encryption key on the archive and it worked," Frogwares' statement read. "The hackers didn’t even care to use a different encryption key than the one we created when recompiling." Before this date the only available PC version – on the Epic Game Store – was around 30Gb in size.Īfter figuring out these key differences between the two versions, Frogwares has come to a conclusion: it alleges that Nacon has pirated the Gamesplanet version of the game and altered it without Frogwares' permission. ![]() The packages are 17Gb, this size corresponds to the versions created around summer 2020 when we switched to a new compressing method to reduce the game size for download purposes.The executable has a similar name but is of a different size than any of our own versions implying modification of the file.The folder names and structure is identical to any of Frogwares versions (Gamesplanet EA origins, Etc….the “more games” menu option is not present.įrogwares also raised several additional points comparing the two versions of the game on PC.the mention of the distribution platform on the lower right screen is also absent.the advertisement for Sherlock Holmes Chapter One is not present on the lower left screen,.The loading screen is different once again the Gamesplanet logo is removed.The Nacon Logo has now replaced the Gamesplanet logo an official Frogwares licensee.Frogwares notes the following differences between the current Steam version and its own version of the game on Gamesplanet: This last action was the straw that broke our backs."įrogwares claims that the version of the game currently uploaded to Steam is actually a tailor-made build of the game that was created for the digital retailer Gamesplanet. "The following video/blog post that we prepared shows how our former licensee NACON has cracked, hacked, changed our game’s code and content and illegally uploaded our game The Sinking City to Steam on February 26th 2021, in order to commercialize it under their own name without our knowledge," Frogwares' statement began. "Some of you may have heard about our troubles in the past. Frogwares, however, has fired back with a statement of its own - and this time, the developer of The Sinking City is making serious accusations about Nacon. Nacon's response is understandable in the context of the ongoing legal dispute between the two companies. Frogwares Alleges Nacons 'Illegally Uploaded' The Sinking City to Steam
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