Ironmace describes itself as “a merry band of veteran game developers disillusioned by the exploitative and greedy practices we once helped create” on its website.

Half of the 20-person P3 team quit Nexon and joined Ironmace - including the aforementioned Leader A - forcing Nexon to tweak the P3 project in a different direction and call it P7. Top: A picture of P3, the game Nexon started developing in 2020 Above: A picture of Dark and Darker, a game developed by Ironmace Ironmace was founded in October 2021 - two months after Nexon fired Leader A - by Park Seung-ha, who was also part of the P3 team. It is listed on the Tokyo Exchange with a market cap of 2.67 trillion yen ($19.4 billion) as of Wednesday.

“We also found that Leader A had suggested to teammates of the P3 project that they quit the company and work together on a game similar to P3, citing outside investment sources and more.” Founded in 2002, Nexon is one of Korea’s largest game developers and publishers, best known for online game franchises MapleStory, KartRider and Dungeon Fighter. “We verified that Leader A, the then-chief of the P3 project team, had leaked thousands of files including the source codes and builds, mostly related to project development, to an outside server they owned,” Nexon’s legal team said in a notice to employees on Wednesday without disclosing the real name of the suspect. The police turned over the case in August 2022 to Suwon District Prosecutors’ Office, which demanded last December that the police investigate further to dig up more evidence. The employee was the leader of a game development project, which had been tentatively titled P3, and was fired from Nexon in July 2021 after getting caught leaking “thousands” of files the project needed. In August 2021, Nexon reported a former employee, identified simply as Leader A, for leaking the game company’s data and assets while working from home during the Covid-19 pandemic.

The raid took place at Ironmace’s office in Seongnam, Gyeonggi, with police seizing company material related to Dark and Darker. Dark and Darker, the massively multiplayer online (MMO) game developed by Ironmace Police on Tuesday raided the office of local game developer Ironmace, which is suspected of stealing assets and personnel from game company Nexon to make its own game Dark and Darker.

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