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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