Destiny 2 Bungie programmer once again fights against plagiarism after another artist accused the studio of “raising” aspects of his works of art, this time for the upcoming science fiction shooter, Marathon.
After many Artists ia writer He joined, claiming that Bungie used his work without authorization or recognition, another artist claims that their work was used in marathon environments. In the screenshots of the Alpha Playtest accompanying the tweet, the artist Andireal claimed that they saw clear icons and graphics they designed, some of them were originally Shared on social media years ago in 2017.
The Alpha marathon has recently released, and its environments are covered with resources raised from poster designs that I created in 2017.@Bungie @Josepharacross pic.twitter.com/0csbo48jgb
– n² (@4nt1r34l) May 15, 2025
“Bungie, of course, is not obliged to hire me when creating a game, which for the most part pulls out of the same design language, which I improved for the last decade, but apparently my work was good enough to plunder ideas and plaster in the whole game without remuneration and assignment” – wrote the artist published in a statement X/Twitter.
“I have no resources or energy to save to implement it legally, but I lost the number of times when a large company decided that it is easier to pay the designer to imitate or steal my work, than write to me e -mail. Within 10 years I have never obtained permanent income from this work and I am tired of designers from great companies, as well as the mood of companies and the nationality of my projects, while I am struggling.”
Bungie answered within a few hours. Although he did not apologize in public, he said that he had already started the investigation, assigning “problem” to former Bungie artists and reached the artist interested.
“We immediately examined the fears of the unauthorized employ of artists’ stickers in statement. “This problem was unknown to our existing artistic group and we are still checking how this supervision took place.
“To prevent similar problems in the future, we carry out a thorough review of our resources in the game, in particular those made by the former Bungie artist, and the implementation of more severe controls to document all the artists’ contributions. We value creativity and dedication of all artists who contribute to our games, and we are involved in doing correct.
It is not for the first time Bungie was accused of raising ideas from other countries. In October, the studio was hit in a lawsuit after the writer He claimed that the studio stole the elements of the plot and used them for content in the story of Destiny 2 2017, the Red War,. Bungie recently tried to release the claim, but The judge refused this request as Bungie got in to provide evidence Since the content “has” valed “so that it is no longer possible to play publicly.
A few weeks before this claim, Bungie began another investigation to determine how the nerf pistol based on the iconic Ace Destiny 2 was raised almost wholesale Fanart designed in 2015In this brush impact, scratching and smudging weapons.
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