The video game developer in South Korea, Dynamis One, is being investigated by the police after leaking confidential information of a Nexon Games project. According to local media, the forces of the order carried out a registration and confiscation operation in the offices of Dynamis One this week.
Dynamis One, founded in April-2024 by former Nexon employees who worked in “Blue Archive“, Became known for the announcement of” Project KV “, a video game that was going to be launched in 2024. However, the project was rapidly canceled in September of the same year, only one week after the promotional trailer was revealed. This cancellation came after a wave of criticism on the Internet, where it was stated that “Project KV” was extremely similar to “Blue Archive”, Tano on stage as in the design of characters.
This generated a great controversy, especially among the players of “Blue Archive” in South Korea and Japan, which forced Dynamis One to erase all the material related to the video game as soon as possible. And now it has been discovered that “Project KV” could have been based on an unnoticed Nexon project called “MX Blade.” Police in South Korea revealed that several Dynamis One executives would have illegally carried out development data from Nexon Games before leaving the company and used them in the development of their new project.
And this is where accusations even reach sabotage. According to documents and testimonies obtained during the investigation, some of the members of Dynamis One would have developed strategies to take advantage of these stolen data to harm the future of “Blue Archive”, the successful video game in which they had participated within Nexon. The plan was that “Project KV” would steal the base of “Blue Archive” players, making it intentionally similar to the original title to capitalize on its popularity, preparing similar marketing techniques and even encouraging distrust between users and generating content in social networks that attacked certain aspects of the original game, with the intention of diverting attention to “Project KV”.
As a result, the CEO of Dynamis One, Park Byung -rim, and other key members of the company are accused of violating the law of prevention of unfair competition, an act qualified as “serious crime”, and Nexon Games is already taking all the relevant legal measures. While the investigation is still ongoing, the police must now determine if the stolen data were really used for the development of the controversial “Project KV” and if there were leaks of some other Nexon Games projects, such as the “Blue Archive” itself.
- «If this is true, it is terrible … are they really going to try to destroy an IP that they created just because it bothers them in their search for money?».
- «Didn't they have a link with the name KV, as if it were something very important for them? It is horrible. Why would they do something like that …? It doesn't matter how cruel it was Nexon with its employees, that does not justify anything».
- «After all this,PROJECT KV failed and were also planning to weaken the service of Blue Archive? Did they really want his work to succeed to such an extent? What did they want to achieve with all this?».
- «Well, they said that we will create the real Kivotos! I don't even want them to return to the video game industry».
- «Were they planning to destroy Blue Archive by KV? Even those who live underground are surprised».
- «This is so bad that I don't even want to talk about what I saw about the work, it's really horrible ..».
- «Isn't this a quite serious charges …?».
- «Did they take a project that was originally planned and destroyed it? And were they planning to sabotage Blue Archive?».
Fountain: Chosunbiz
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