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Hello, @everyone. We regret to inform you of some unfortunate news.
Epic Games has decided to delist Dark and Darker from the Epic Games Store.
This decision appears to be based on claims made by the opposing party in the ongoing legal dispute. We are currently working to understand the exact reasoning behind this removal.
It seems that the removal process is not yet fully complete, as Dark and Darker is no longer listed, but Dark and Darker: Legendary Status is still available for purchase. Please be aware of this potential confusion.
In preparation for the possibility that Dark and Darker may no longer be playable on Epic Games, we are working on alternative solutions to ensure that players can continue enjoying the game. We will share more details as soon as possible.
We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
The game was already delisted from steam back in 2023 before being restored in June 2024.
Here's an article that takes an in depth look at the case that Nexon filed against Ironmace:
https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2023/04/18/understanding-the-dark-and-darker-lawsuit/
Isn't this the game that has a weird kernel anticheat which scrapes your entire PC every time it runs, hastening your storage device's demise?
I did a quick search but couldn't find any issue with their anticheat.
From what I could find, it's not a kernel level anticheat.
As far as damaging hardware, reading from a drive doesn't really degrade it much at all, the bigger concern there would be if it was writing to your drive a ton (but honestly you should worry more about Window's Page File system since that makes it possible to use your storage drive as RAM).
I found a post from one player on the steam forums with concerns about the anticheat because their system kept crashing, but that sounded more like an isolated incident (or more likely related to the Intel CPU issue that was confirmed that same year).
There is a highly upvoted review for the game which has concerns about the anticheat reading all files on a drive and "overloading your processors (ignoring frame-rate caps and going past it)."
I agree that reading every file on a drive is concerning, I'd rather any anticheat stick to just the game's folders itself.
However, I'm wary about their understanding of programs/computers if they think that anti-cheat software should be limited by, or has anything to do with frame-rate caps. Also, they don't provide a source for any of their information or how they tested it.
Most other cocerns about anti-cheat quoted that same review in one way or another.