As Ironmace puts it, Choi's usage of Dark And Darker Gold the server was discouraged by Nexon, but never directly shut down, and receded to a secondary concern as the team returned to office. It was when Choi announced an intention to leave Nexon, Ironmace claims, that legal proceedings against him began and he was terminated by the company. Further, Ironmace alleges that Nexon only copyrighted its P3 development materials in February of this year, seemingly in response to Dark and Darker's success in the Steam Next Fest.

Ironmace also had harsh words for Nexon's claim that the studio could not have produced working prototypes of Dark and Darker so quickly without trade secrets from Nexon: "The fact that a big game company like Nexon can't develop games this fast doesn't mean that other studios, big and small, can't develop at that speed."

While both P3 and Dark and Darker are being made using Unreal Engine, Ironmace claims that P3 was "written while learning because none of the programmers had any experience using Unreal Engine at the time of the project," and that "using the code and assets of the P3 project as a reference would not have been helpful in proceeding with the Dark and Darker project." To bolster the claim, Ironmace released partly redacted git logs of buying Dark And Darker Gold development, a massive document stretching back to the project's inception in September 2021.