{"id":44941,"date":"2025-02-28T11:11:57","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T02:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=44941"},"modified":"2025-02-28T11:11:59","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T02:11:59","slug":"blue-archives-former-developers-made-plans-to-sabotage-the-games-development-before-leaving-nexon-evidence-from-police-raid-confirms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/blue-archives-former-developers-made-plans-to-sabotage-the-games-development-before-leaving-nexon-evidence-from-police-raid-confirms\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Archive\u2019s former developers made plans to sabotage the game\u2019s development before leaving Nexon, evidence from police raid confirms\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dynamis One, a South Korean game company founded by former Nexon Games employees, was raided by Seoul police on February 24. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/gamefocus.co.kr\/detail.php?number=163579\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">GameFocus<\/a>, evidence secured in the search and seizure confirms that before quitting, the developers engaged in embezzlement and attempted to compromise the development of <strong>Blue Archive<\/strong>, the live-service game they were working on at Nexon.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For context, Dynamis One was founded in April last year by core members of Blue Archive\u2019s development team, including one of the game\u2019s project directors Byeong-Lim Park (who is now Dynamis One\u2019s CEO) and scenario writer Isakusan.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1345\" height=\"724\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1345px) 100vw, 1345px\" src=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/20250228-44941-001.jpg\" alt=\"Dynamis One company logo and slogan\" class=\"wp-image-44946\" srcset=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/20250228-44941-001.jpg 1345w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/20250228-44941-001-380x205.jpg 380w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/20250228-44941-001-768x413.jpg 768w\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Following the police raid, it was initially reported that key executives at Dynamis One allegedly <a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/game-company-founded-by-former-blue-archive-devs-raided-by-police-on-suspicion-of-running-off-with-nexons-undisclosed-game-project\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">systematically leaked development data<\/a> related to Nexon Games\u2019 undisclosed new game project (titled MX Blade) prior to their departure from the company. However, it\u2019s now been additionally confirmed through seized data that the former Blue Archive staff engaged in embezzlement, violated employee regulations and \u201cmade specific plans to cause damage to Blue Archive and its future development in order to succeed in their own projects.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In September 2024, Dynamis One <a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/blue-archive-developers-new-title-project-kv-gets-cancelled\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">announced Project KV<\/a>, a game that triggered significant backlash for looking like a Blue Archive clone and ended up getting cancelled after only a week after the announcement. At the time, fans who had noticed a drop in the pace and quality of Blue Archive\u2019s updates (gaps in the story, substandard art and character design quality) speculated that this was related to the sudden appearance of Dynamis One and Project KV, which seems to have been partially confirmed now.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"679\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" src=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/dynamis-one-project-kv-20250227-329809-001.webp\" alt=\"Project KV character concept art\" class=\"wp-image-44947\" srcset=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/dynamis-one-project-kv-20250227-329809-001.webp 1200w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/dynamis-one-project-kv-20250227-329809-001-380x215.webp 380w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/dynamis-one-project-kv-20250227-329809-001-768x435.webp 768w\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Project KV character concept art<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>If the leaking of MX Blade\u2019s data and the sabotage of Blue Archive are acknowledged in the investigation, Dynamis One\u2019s executives are likely to be subject to criminal punishment for violating the Unfair Competition Prevention Act. Moreover, if it is established that they directly used development data stolen from Nexon in their own projects, this will increase the odds of a guilty verdict.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blue Archive&#8217;s former developers who founded Dynamis One reportedly compromised the game prior to leaving Nexon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":44944,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-44941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-global-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Blue Archive\u2019s former developers made plans to sabotage the game\u2019s development before leaving Nexon, evidence from police raid confirms\u00a0 - 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