Ironmace informed players that the torrent link had been removed "due to Dark And Darker Gold Discord’s policy of not allowing links to torrents."Ironmace posted the torrent link to its official Twitter, which was removed for similar reasons.Ironmace distributed the link again by way of a text decoder tool that sidestepped the ban on torrent links.
Dark and Darker servers went down on Saturday for an extended time while no developers were around to fix the issue.One of the official Discord admins locked the server's general chat room briefly to explain the situation in the midst of hundreds of players spamming "HOLD THE LINE" in support of the developers.
Ironmace said it was affected by "incredibly sophisticated and powerful DDoS attacks" during testing.Ironmace somehow completed two hotfixes (also distributed by torrent) over the course of the weekend.
And despite the total trash fire, players are absolutely loving it. YouTube is full of videos of Dark and Darker players showing off and sharing their builds. Reddit has threads defending the developers and mourning the end of the playtest.
The biggest point of contention in the official Discord is disappointment that Ironmace didn't extend the end date of the playtest to make up for the downtime over the weekend. If another game were being so tragically messy, its own fans may well have turned on it, but Ironmace is a small indie team and Dark and Darker is just a damn fun game.
Before the Nexon beef even came to light, Ironmace was presenting itself as Dark And Darker Gold for sale an underdog with a mission. A statement on its website reads:
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