during the midst of all of this mudslinging a mysterious new version of the sinking city was suddenly re-uploaded to steam in february of NUMBER_TOKEN which took frogwares completely by surprise as they had nothing to do with it nakon insisted that they had done nothing wrong and had done everything correct maintaining that they owned the ip even though they clearly didn't as evidenced by the switch version it took several weeks of digging but frogwares was able to track down exactly what happened nakon had bought the game had some in-house programmers change some insignificant parts of the code and then resubmitted it to steam without frogware's consent logically frogwares then issued a dmca takedown with valve who overwhelmingly sided with the studio and removed that version from steam the very next day the kicker this wasn't even the first time nikon had done this frogwares alleged that they had attempted the same stunt towards the end of NUMBER_TOKEN demanding that frogwares upload a new master build to steam or else with the or else being straight up piracy frogwares caught wind of this early and got valve to intervene before it progressed any further till the public at large was not aware this latest incident though was the very last straw as frogware's in a public post reminded naycon ceo allen falk that intellectual property laws in france are some pretty serious PROFANITY_TOKEN and could result in NUMBER_TOKEN years of jail time and up to seven million euros in fines and damages and wouldn't you know it ever since then there's been no major updates in the legal war betwixt both companies with the best guess being that both settled the issue behind closed doors although that's really not confirmed as of yet fortunately though frogwares was able to buy back the rights to distribute the game for the other formats and even added the psNUMBER_TOKEN and the xbox series family line into the mix what's more is that both versions reviewed significantly better as many technical shortcomings and bugs were eventually ironed out it's not all sunshine and rainbows though due to the incompatible nature and different skew numbers of the nikon and frogware versions save transfer and purchase history between the two are legally impossible as of the time of this writing frogwares is focusing on a forthcoming sherlock holmes adventure which is developed and self-published by them a trend which i'm sure they're keen to continue this has to be one of the messier stories in the history of what happened but instead of it revolving around the ins and outs of actual game development it's centered around the spiraling endless nightmare of business dealings and licensing agreements say nightmare i wanna wake up from right the PROFANITY_TOKEN now dude just give me tight deadlines and engine problems please that's what i'm used to oh god if you know of any other dark recesses in which lurk troubled video game life cycles movie productions or fragile frayed ends of the human psyche let me know in the comments below over on my twitter or take a slow dreadfilled boat ride over to the flophouse vip patreon and become a big boss and nominate what you want to see in a future episode
START_INTERACTION_TOKEN of any other dark recesses in which lurk troubled video game life cycles movie productions or fragile frayed ends of the human psyche let me know in the comments below over on my twitter or take a slow dreadfilled boat ride over to the flophouse vip patreon and become a big boss and nominate what you want to see in a future episode END_INTERACTION_TOKEN