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The Sinking City is back on Steam, but the devs don’t want you to buy itFrogwares say they didn’t make the version currently on sale
Frogwares say they didn’t make the version currently on sale
In August last year,Frogwares released a statementalleging that Nacon withheld payments during the game’s development, owed Frogwares around €1 million in royalties (about £900,000), and wrongly tried to claim copyright of The Sinking City. Some storefronts had already begun to remove the game due to what Frogwares believed was confusion over ownership, then the developers themselves took the game down from remaining stores to stop sales from going to Nacon. At the time, Nacon “emphatically” rejected the developer’s claims, and said the dispute was still pending before French courts.
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In October, however, those courts found thatFrogwares had unlawfully terminated their contract with Naconwhen they removed the game from sale, and would have to stick to it until the legal dispute was settled. The Sinking City then returned to Xbox and the Microsoft Store in January. Frogwares released it on Steam again too, except that version mysteriously disappeared again shortly after.
Now, however, it’s back again - but it’s supposedly a different version to what was released in January.
“Frogwares has not created the version of The Sinking City that is today on sale on Steam. We do not recommend the purchase of this version. More news soon,“Frogwares posted on Twitter.
This sure is a messy one. I’ve contacted Frogwares and Nacon, and will update this post if I get a response.
