Hi there, We removed Dark and Darker from sale on the Epic Games Store on March 5 in consideration of a court decision in Korea between Nexon and the game’s publisher, IRONMACE. On November 1, 2025, we will be removing Dark and Darker from your library, at which point it will no longer be playable via the Epic Games Store.
Effective immediately, players can no longer purchase Redstone Shards or the Legendary Status upgrades via the Epic Games Store. Players can continue to use the Redstone Shards that they have previously purchased until November 1, 2025.
We will issue a refund to all players who have purchased the Legendary Status upgrade. Refunds will be issued to the player’s original payment method, and where that’s not possible, players will receive a refund to their Epic account balance. We are unable to provide refunds on Redstone Shards.
If you have not received a refund by July 1, please contact player support.
Thank you, The Epic Games Store team
It’s a multiplayer freemium game. Even if they let you keep your “copy” of it, servers will be down and the game will not be playable anyways. At least they offer a refund.
486@lemmy.world 1 day ago
That is not universally true. On GOG for example you can download all your games, so thing like this could not happen there. Sure, you still purchase a license and do not actually buy the games, but for all intents and purposes this is still the closest you get to actually owning the games.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 day ago
They don’t have DRM. That’s not the same as owning the game. If you don’t back up the games or installers yourself, and GOG goes under, you lose access to your library the same as if Epic or Steam going away.
You can back up your Steam and Epic games, too. You just need to be able to access your account to verify your license for most titles (but not everything; loads of games do not use Steam or Epic’s DRM, have no online checks to verify anything, and you can just copy the installation folder to another machine to play the game).
486@lemmy.world 1 day ago
That’s why I mentioned that you purchase a license. That has also always been true even if you “bought” a game as a physical copy in a store. A DRM-free game is still the closest thing you get to owning a game.
I have heard this argument before, but I really don’t get it. Of course you could lose your files if you don’t download them. I’d say that’s so obvious it isn’t even worth mentioning. If you lose or destroy your physical copy of a game you also lose access to it. Pretty obvious.
kewko@sh.itjust.works 20 hours ago
So you’re saying torrenting and seeding is basically a moral obligation?
AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Depending on the era of the game, you might well own a copy of a game on a disk, just like you own a copy of a book when you buy a book. Weaselling out of first-sale-doctrine stuff came a long time after people started buying video games. A century ago, publishers were trying exactly the same thing with books, and depending on the country, either legislation was introduced that made it explicitly illegal, or the courts determined that putting a licence agreement in a book just meant that the customer got a copy of a licence agreement with their book, not that they were bound by its terms.
grue@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
You own your individual copy of the game software, end of. It doesn’t fucking matter if it’s on a disc or a digital download.
umbrella@lemmy.ml 15 hours ago
also piracy, ironically
grue@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
It’s not ever true. It is always a lie pushed by copyright-maximalist shysters who hope the public is too cowed to call them on their bullshit.
BrikoX@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Sure you get a DRM-free license on GOG, but for many games you are still dependent on online servers for authentication, which can be shut down at any time rendering your access null and void. The only recourse is technically “hacking” a game a creating local servers which is both against terms of service and against the law in some countries.
486@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I am not aware of any game on GOG that requires an online server for authentication. I’m not saying no such thing exists - I don’t own every single game on GOG, but that would go against the whole DRM free thing. Care to name a few games that do this? I don’t mean games that have an online mode that require a server, but games that just require authentication against an online server to be able to play the game.