Bungie has been busy these previous few years with numerous lawsuits. The studio has been ruthless with how they take care of gamers dishonest or hacking – and so they’ve now filed swimsuit towards a hacker who reportedly made direct threats to their workers.
The corporate will probably be suing Luca Leone (through PC Gamer), who created a number of accounts to ban evade whereas additionally streaming himself dishonest and making threats towards the developer.
This began on December 6, 2021 when Leone was streaming on Twitch underneath the identify “Miffysworld”, Leone created an account that had the username, “!” which was banned on Might 22, 2022 after he was caught dishonest. Leone would then go on to create a sequence of recent accounts together with: GOT 2 GET IT, TRAP$TAR MIFFY, ugl1kgwj4kn7emj, why, gerogetwo, Bungie, and bungiemad, and hahahalolxd.
Leone would go on to mock the developer on social media for not with the ability to cease him from hacking their sport, making feedback taunting the Battleye anti-cheat software program, “7 bans in and nonetheless going robust Bungie battleye is shit took me 30 seconds to get round your foolish {hardware} ban.”
Leone would additionally go on to straight make threats towards growth workers akin to tweeting out that he can be transferring half-hour away from the place firm group supervisor, Dylan Gafner lived following it up by saying, “he isn’t protected”. He additionally tweeted that the event studios higher maintain their doorways locked.
Lastly, Bungie claims that Leone offered accounts and logos on fashionable third-party marketplaces and thus, infringed on the developer’s copyright.
Bungie has requested for a jury trial within the matter and is in search of $150,000 for every depend of copyright violation which, analytics notice could possibly be 13 counts, or $1.95 million {dollars}. It will solely cowl the copyright violations and the studio will search extra in punative damages on prime of this.
That is trying to be an attention-grabbing case, and we’ll report on it once we obtain new info.