Some fans are a bit more optimistic from doris89592's blog

Related: Dark And Darker;s Copyright Explained, And Why It Matters quot;If Nexon wins the lawsuit, what then?quot; asks Dark And Darker Gold Reddit user BotGiyenAdam, over in r/DarkAndDarker. quot;Are they gonna say...;shut down the game, everything goes to the garbage. 

There are no more Dark and Darker;. Or ;now we make/release [a] new Dark and Darker-ish game?;quot; The thread is full of ideas on what could happen if Nexon wins the case, and none of them are particularly great for Ironmace. 

quot;Ironmace explodes,quot; says 20charaters. quot;People will play Dark and Darker on third-party servers, Nexon will make a similar game - but won;t get much from it.quot;

Some fans are a bit more optimistic. quot;They could just ask for a certain percentage of earnings, a massive settlement amount or even control company resources,quot; says nipzx. Others, however, are preparing for the worse: quot;Nexon nixes the whole project and it;s dead in the water while they make P3 again.quot;

P3 is the project at the centre of all of this. It all stems from the fact that several Ironmace developers were working at Nexon, creating a game called P3. According to Nexon, these same employees stole ideas and source code from the project, and then left to create cheap Dark And Darker Gold on their own.