Comment on Sinking City Publisher Denies Selling Pirated Copies on Steam

Sinking City Publisher Denies Selling Pirated Copies on Steam

Nacon, publisher of The Sinking City, has denied developer Frogwares' claims that Nacon bought a copy of The Sinking City, altered it to include Nacon logos, and reuploaded the game to Steam to sell to customers without Frogwares' permission. In a post to Steam today, Nacon said that the version of The Sinking City published on Steam under its name is "an official and complete version," and that the only issue with the release is a lack of Steam-specific features such as cloud saving and achievements -- a problem it attributes to a "lack of cooperation" with Frogwares. This comes in response to a blog post yesterday from Frogwares attesting that while a legal battle over whether Nacon has the rights to publish The Sinking City was underway in French courts, Nacon purchased a copy of the game from Gamesplanet, altered certain elements such as splash screens and logos to make it appear as though the game was licensed to Nacon, and then reuploaded it to Steam as an official version. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2019/06/25/the-sinking-city-review"] The Sinking City was first removed from multiple storefronts back in August 2020, with Frogwares saying at the time that the publisher had breached its contract with the developer, stopped providing owed payments, and tried to mask the involvement of Frogwares in the versions of the games it was licensed to distribute.

 

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