This brings us to the current situation, with Nacon taking a version of the game sourced from GamesPlanet (a point they do not address in their statement) and Frogwares has had it pulled with a DCMA request to Valve. I’m no lawyer, but I’m getting a sinking feeling about this… Nacon say that “The Paris Court of Appeal deemed this action “manifestly unlawful” ordering the continuation of the contract and encouraging FROGWARES to refrain “from any action which would impede such continuation”.” The lateness or lack of payment was one of the reasons that Frogwares sought to cancel the publishing and distribution contract held with Nacon, forcing the company to remove The Sinking City from Steam for the first time in August 2020 while the dispute goes through the courts. Today, unless FROGWARES is acting in bad faith, it has no reason not to make the game available to NACON on STEAM. Contrary to FROGWARES’ allegations, NACON has paid all amounts due. NACON has contributed to the financing of development and the payment of royalties to FROGWARES to the tune of 8.9 million euros to date (including the full payment for a version of the game for STEAM), making the global investment far above 10 million euros when integrating the marketing costs. With Frogwares claiming that Nacon withheld or were late with payments through development and then obfuscated the game’s sales, Nacon state:
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