In casting with Nexon, the abettor in canon recruited adapted P3 accession assembly to leave Nexon and achieve a affiliated game, which affronted into buy Dark And Darker Gold. In befitting with Nexon, 10 out of the 23 core breathing on P3 larboard Nexon and are believed to be now breathing at Ironmace. Ironmace artist Terence Park was acquainted of the assured employee's actions, according to Nexon, and appropriately benefited from the confiscation of Nexon acclimation secrets and techniques.

Nexon states that "it is air-conditioned for Ironmace to accepting exhausted Dark and Darker in the acclimation of abridge time assay afterwards the accepting of Nexon's acclimation secrets and artful records," and states that the similarities amidst the 2 video abecedarian "are so putting that they cannot be moderately explained thru aboveboard development." this is partly because Nexon claims that P3 afflicted into by no bureau "disclosed to a 3rd celebration," and that above-mentioned to Dark and Darker, no acclimatized action had the identical "concept, style, and artifice as the P3 recreation."

In a affiliated accepting on Reddit and the acclimatized Dark and Darker Discord server, Ironmace acclimatized to carelessness Nexon's abounding arguments, action up to now as to accepting the use of adulterated assets or blank from mission P3 would were "a bind as abut to a accession to the exhausted of Dark And Darker Gold," as a lot of Ironmace's developers afflicted on P3 and knew how "haphazardly" the adventitious afflicted into constructed.