Nice

Aight, Glad for the warning. Couldn’t care less if they take it out this is on my “no go” list.

Likely in the ok-ish section but Celeste has that vibe going for it

I had to appeal though. Their stance here though is no appeals

I’ve been erroneously banned from CS2 twice, with no reason given. Both times I’ve been unbanned after appealing. I have no doubt if I were active on t2 they would have banned me. This only happened once I started using linux too, particularly when I started using dev versions of software.

I strongly doubt they’ve only gotten bots on this

Edit: clarity

Never a problem, always a good thing to ask for sources. I’ll admit, I’ve been having a fairly difficult time re-finding all the origional sources however I did get the majority of my information from a guy called Kira on youtube. He goes through the actual documents but, sadly, doesn’t directly link to the docs. I’ll post those links at the end

Firstly, their admittion to keeping nexons server after being told to shut it down

Taken from their post here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/DarkAndDarker/comments/122rz27/dmca_discord_update/

Due to a mandatory remote work policy implemented by Nexon in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the accused member received multiple written authorizations from executive members at Nexon from 2020 to 2021, allowing him to utilize an external personal server to improve the performance of his team (e.g., version control, build machine, and dedicated server). After utilizing the personal servers for almost a year, the accused member asked the leadership if it was ok to continue using his personal servers. The leaders told him to refrain from using the personal servers. The accused member agreed to takedown the servers as long as he could maintain the performance of his team by having his programming team come to the office bypassing the companywide remote work policy.

The accused member initiated the takedown of the personal servers but, due to the uncertainty of sporadic Covid waves, taking down the server in a quick and exhaustive manner was not a high priority. As a result, some automated scripts related to the build machine were left running on his personal server at this time. When the buildings next to his office were shut down due to confirmed covid cases he took a risk and fully set up his personal servers to aid in development. Since all company machines were monitored using a companywide endpoint solution, the existence and usage of his personal servers, ones that were subject of approvals and re-approvals, must be reasonably known to Nexon over this multi-month period of development. Not a single warning was received from that security team so it was easy to construe it as acknowledgement that his actions were acceptable, otherwise it would mean that Nexon would be failing at taking reasonable measures to maintain the confidentiality of their assets.

Shortly after Nexon’s leadership became aware of the accused member’s plans to leave the company, instead of trying to resolve it a professional manner, they abruptly sent the Internal Audit team and accused him of stealing files, despite having observed his personal server being used without notice for several month. Due to harassment and the lack of respect from the company and after consulting with his lawyers, he concluded that his private information on his private servers was not subject to any record so he deleted his information to ensure his privacy.

Note their arguments for it being OK stem from nexon not taking action sooner, and stating they should have recognized the servers were being used during their tenure. As a developer, I should state that mirroring the entire server is uneeded and very weird to see. Usually, proxying in, using git, and their on site build servers through that proxy is the standard. Also, no, nobodies looking at access logs until there’s an issue. I cannot find nexons responce directly, but it is shown in the following videos

Here’s some Piped links to the coverage from Kira:
Looking over lawsuit: https://piped.adminforge.de/watch?v=42SzJLadbHg&list=PL27KYsg0ANj1YskyapNmhwVX8UdbeCuvR&index=6
Full Playlist: https://piped.adminforge.de/playlist?list=PL27KYsg0ANj1YskyapNmhwVX8UdbeCuvR

Once more on youtube if you prefer:
Looking over lawsuit: https://youtube.com/watch?v=42SzJLadbHg&list=PL27KYsg0ANj1YskyapNmhwVX8UdbeCuvR&index=6
Full Playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL27KYsg0ANj1YskyapNmhwVX8UdbeCuvR

That’s not entirely accurate. Not entirely inaccurate either.

Firstly to clarify, as for the dismissal, it’s due to forum inconvienience. They had to file in Washington though due to the terms of steam that state any conflict must first be brought up in a Washington court.

Secondly, the suit was for much more than than. The assets weren’t stolen and this was never an accusation. The accusation is that d.a.d used research and development created by Nexon to bypass large amount of work in order to create the game. This included the decision on what assets to use, and how to modify them to fit the game. The evidence on this is strong. This on top of abilities, classes used, weapons and fighting mechanics, magic items, animation style, etc. were one to one matches to their former employers.

We must acknowledge the founders worked for nexon previous to starting dark and darker and they worked on a game with the exact premise. This is not disputed.

Thirdly, the guy admitted to stealing company information, agreed to destroy it, and failed to do so while lying about it. They had also, in company emails, messaged other employees about quitting to start a game with the same premise while still working at nexon.

There’s alot more there and honestly I don’t see a world in which they’re in the right. Still though, fuck nexon, trash company, trash employers. What the d.a.d devs did was wrong, but gladly they did it to a company that deserves it.

Even then, by my understanding, that was mostly for the port and bug fixes. CA was very reluctant to give any control and did all art, musical, feature, and overall directional development himself.

I’d argue it was a recipe for burnout and generally a bad idea but this is what I remember from when I obsessively read his update blogs back then

“Spaceships are dragons” Buddy we all know you’re just trying to make an excuse for your vore mod.

“No, no, you need a warm and soft fleshy interior which you have to enter through the mouth, how else would you have dragon spaceships”

We all know how this goes

I am in no way shocked at this development but it is absolutely halarious

Wait, what happened to empress?