The artist responsible for the theft has already been fired, the new art team was unaware of the theft, they are currently researching how deep it goes, and reaching out to the original artist to make amends.
Bungie admits design art used for Marathon was stolen
Cowards. It's ok to steal 'art' from small time artists. (Until they start using AI only)
so that’s it?
this shitshow will just blow over now?
Bungie throws a former employee under the bus and attempts to gaslight the artist into not taking legal action
Bluesky
Holy kekaroo.
former artist
THE LEAD ART DESIGNER IS LITERALLY FOLLOWING THE PERSON THEY STOLE SHIT FROM
KEK
not taking legal action
Marathon is not being sold yet.
There is no legal action to pursue beyond demanding the texture to get removed from the finished build. Considering the dogshit "mirror's edge and various anime" art direction, there is no difficilty in replacing it.
former
uh huh
Now reveal the ethnicity of the artist.
Luckily the entire team is probably gonna get laid off once the game bombs, they are just getting ahead of the curve.
This is 3rd time they got caught with using stolen art lmao
I'm sure if an indie dev "accidentally" used Destiny decal art Bungie would understand and be fine with it as long as the dev blamed an unnamed artist who worked with them earlier during development
Sorry, apparently its 5th time actually
yeah the theft was fired. trust me bro.
the textures and art are visible in footage being used as marketing for the game so Bungie is using stolen art to garner interest and sales through preorders. By your logic I should be able to market something using Batman, Superman, and Goku in all the images and then skirt all legal issues by simply not including any of them in the final sold product.
they should have just done a remake of the marathon series
Reminder sony paid $3.7 BILLION for Bungie
I still dont understand why
The same smoke and mirrors tricks that scumbag companies like Sony and Disney use to fool investors into thinking they're doing better than they actually are were actually used on Sony itself and it worked lol.
Sony was fucking desperate because it was the same time that microsoft was just scooping shit up. Sony wanted a company that could make a live service game because their plan was to make 45 different live service games.
Sony ends up selling Bungie
Microsoft buys them
I know that everyone that made Halo fun is gone, but it would be funny
uhh this might be like the 5th, 6th or 7th time we've been caught using stolen art but we totally didn't know about it and the artist is gone, we'll remove it, sorry bro
they're never gonna stop doing it if there's no repercussions
its not just some decals.
its the whole art style that was stolen
pedosky
you can't steal an art style
bungie also stole some plotline that existed in Destiny2 from a random internet writer.
they can't boot up an old build with access to that story arc so they have to cede to the judge they stole it all lmao
Microsoft literally said that they considered buying bungo, but after looking into their financials they found out that bungo were burning through cash fast while producing fuckall.
Microsoft literally noped out and decided not to deal with any of that shit.
The burn-rate fiasco, just google "bungie burn-rate" for more info, lol.
Disgusting. I hope the artist that complained about their art being used is killed.
Marathon is not being sold yet.
marketing is selling
the stolen art is in marketing material
also people got paid for presenting stolen work
that money should have gone to the real artist.
sure
but thats not what that post is saying
Xe/xer should have waited till the game was out to say anything.
bungie also stole some plotline that existed in Destiny2 from a random internet writer
Why does everybody believe this but won't believe that kyoani stole the meat scene?
Oh I thought this was gonna be one of those trolls telling people to google something off-putting or controversial
the artist said they didnt have the money start a lawsuit but Im pretty sure this is the sort of thing a lawyer does pro bono for a piece of that settlement
This has happened like half a dozen times now. There needs to be serious repercussions. But America is fucked so nothing will happen once again.
Jesus Christ.
Does NO ONE get any quality checks any more?
Bungie will sue some 15 year old and his family making them poor for life and paying them settlements until they die
Also Bungie: too cheap to actually hire an artist and will just steal lmao
steal from Bungie, get your life ruined
Bungie steals from you, you get $100
get paid to make something for someone
throw a tantrum when they use the thing they paid you to make
it's literally text and squares that anyone can make
for me, it's the me3 plagiarism
QRD?
He presented zero proof and the idea that two characters in a grocery store buying meat can be plagiarized is insane.
The sad thing here is that the artist is going to get nothing out of this, and this scumbag company producing literal garbage is going to get away with it yet again with some comical piecemeal offering like "well sure, we ripped off all your content, but only these 4 pieces are actually lifted in their entirety so we'll pay you our going rate for art commission work which is 250 bucks a piece, now sign this NDA that says you can't sue us and post about how great bungie is on your social media account".
He should be proud a legendary studio like Bungie considered his smears for their next big hit game.
You know they can't say that.
Try being an adult in this fucked up world for a couple more years
Unfortunate, but I will still be playing because the art is peak and all other FPS look like shit