The legal drama between Korean studio Ironmace and Nexon can be Dark And Darker Gold traced back to August 2021, when a Nexon employee known as "Leader A" was caught leaking assets for a project with the working title "P3". Leader A was fired from Nexon as a consequence, and a later investigation showed that they had leaked thousands of the project's files to an external server. 

Soon after, members of the P3 team quit Nexon to join Ironmace in developing Dark and Darker alongside Leader A. Nexon contends that Dark and Darker has been built on stolen assets from P3, which has resulted in legal action and even a police raid on Ironmace's studio.

An Ironmace admin named Luci on Dark and Darker's Discord server released an open letter and acknowledged that the team wasn't aware they'd be making the post, which called for the community to support Ironmace's legal battle through a GoFundMe campaign. 

The letter said that Nexon essentially plans to "bleed [Ironmace] dry" with expensive court fees and that Nexon even named a tutorial boss in its latest MMORPG "Leader of the Silver Sun - Terence" to mock the Ironmace developer. The campaign earned upwards of $46,000 toward its $500,000 goal in under an hour before it was taken down.

Ironmace admin Graysun commented on the situation, confirming that the GoFundMe campaign was launched "without approval due to a passionate member of the team taking matters into buy Dark And Darker Gold his own hands." Ironmace appears to be planning another GoFundMe in the future, as Graysun told fans to look out for a future announcement detailing how the GoFundMe will be handled.