The developers of Duet Night Abyss are perfectly sane and can be trusted with automatic game updates. But that doesn’t mean that they don’t need a bit of help sometimes.
On March 18th, Duet Night Abyss received an update on schedule. This update contained a malware trojan, infecting the PCs of all players who received it. The devs put out as hotfix eliminate the malware as soon as they realized, but as you can imagine, something like this slipping through the cracks has already done a its damage to the game’s reputation.
The developers at Pan Studio have released a statement on the matter, offering apologies in the standard written form, with some in-game freebies as an extra thank you to the players sticking with them.
“We would like to express our deepest apologies for the cybersecurity incident that occurred yesterday,” the post reads. “Following the resolution of these temporary issues, we have conducted a full review and summary of the event.”
According to Pan Studio’s timeline of events: once the issue was identified, a fix was released via another update less than 2 hours later. Fast work, all things considered. There’s still the matter of how malware got inserted into the game update to begin with, and that’s still something the devs are looking into.
“The root cause of this incident was a malicious attack originating from a specific region,” the post says, “targeting our internal office systems and live servers. Even after the initial breach, persistent attempts to continue the attack and spread misinformation have occurred.”
“We sincerely apologize for not providing a full response on the day of the incident. We wanted to ensure a complete review of the problem and finalize our security measures before providing a detailed explanation to the community.”
Duet Night Abyss Faces An Uncertain Future
After receiving an unwanted malware jumpscare, the players of Duet Night Abyss are… unhappy, to say the least. Steam Reviews have taken a sharp dip downwards, as players voice their frustrations.
“The game was in a bad shape before,” according to one reviewer. “But today marks the worst of it up until now: their game servers got hacked, and the hackers teased the possibility of the game being infected with a Remote Access Trojan or other malware, as they claim the devs’ internal servers have been broken into for more than 3 years.”
This user is not alone in their claim of the malware being a remote access trojan – though rumor-mill second-hand claims from hacker groups should be taken with the appropriate grains of salt.
“Oh, and the hackers claim the devs use AI to code this game, which explains why the game has so many bugs and is badly optimized.”
Regardless of the truth of these claims, the damage is already done. Uncertainty around something like this is really not the sort of thing most players want to engage with, and this reviewer is no different:
“I can’t, in good conscience, keep playing the game in this state, nor keep quiet about it,” the user writes. “The devs will have to address this problem in depth if I am to consider playing this again.”
