>Marathon's entire artstyle is stolen

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>Marathon's entire artstyle is stolen

Bungie Stealing ‘Marathon’ Art Is Probably The Last Straw

Marathon developer Bungie has been accused of, and has now admitted to, stealing artwork used in the current build of Marathon from an artist who first published the work in 2017.

That artist is ANTIREAL, who posted several comparisons of her work and existing Bungie Marathon assets which go far beyond “inspiration” and often are direct 1:1 lifts of images, words, symbols and even ANTIREAL’s own personal logo. One of her statements:

Within a matter of hours as this began to spread virally, Bungie issued a statement saying it was a “former Bungie artist” who included the decals in a “texture sheet” that ultimately went into the game. The issue was supposedly unknown by the “existing art team” but obviously many, many questions have been raised about all this as Bungie continues to investigate.

blatant plagiarism and copypaste

they even pasted in the original artists watermark in the actual ingame textures

LMAO

Is Bungie done? Marathon was going to have a complete uphill battle with everyone saying its Concord 2 and the alpha being a trainwreck, and now this

Unique artstyle was the only thing it had going for it and not it turns out its completely stolen too. How do we cope, bungiebros?

Literal ingame texture lul

So like everyone is all butthurt about it but is there even anything to do about it past being butthurt? The game isnt out, they haven't made money with it. If they go in and scrub all the assets they lifted then everything is fine, yeah?

All they had to do was deny it. At least half the people would never believe some tranny anyway.

if the thief gives back the thing he stole after he was caught he shouldnt be punished, right? everything is forgiven? in fact we should pay him money, right?

How are they supposed to deny it when theres literal artist watermark on one of the textures in the live build of the game

Anyone find a good download of the Designers Republic art book?

marathon is gonna be cancelled at this point

But I wanted another Concord...

Many might not investigate it further. It's very often a tranny makes false accusations of plagiarism. Most recent I can think of was some mascot horror game and some furry tranny with like five followers said the generic cat was its design.

FUnny thing is couple days ago there was a leak in here claiming they are going to delay it to 2026 anyway after how horribly the alpha went

If they do it now it will look like theyre doing it to scrub the evidence of art theft lmao

the game isn't out, they haven't made money with it

The game is currently being marketed to an audience using these assets. The assets are contributing to the games marketing and therefore inherently to its ability to be sold.

Stop this retarded twitter misinfomration. The art lead has been developing this style since 2017. The only thing that was stolen were a couple of decals.

300 "developers"

6 years

billions of dollars from Sony

stolen art assets

no campaign

only 4 maps

You know, at a certain point someone somewhere has to realize that this is one of the biggest grifts in gaming history, how the fuck do you blow so much time and money on a project and end up with dogshit that has less content than the original games which were more or less doom clones with story

I mean Marathon 1 had a full campaign, 10 multiplayer maps, and more gun variety.

basically what happened is Sony came in last year and snagged all the top-tier developers and left the betas to finish up this crappy game. The chads were put into a new label and are working on "project gummybear"

I applied there a few months ago and it was fat women with cats jumping around on the webcams. Whole studio is going to just go under soon.

Can we just start beating the niggers, fags and women again so we can have good video games? Halo: reach was bungies swan song. Not we’ve got a gaggle of retarded cunts masquerading using their skin as a mask.

Thr game comes out in 4 months.

delay it to 2026

They want to compete with gta?

They will just replace the textures since the game is not released yet and nothing will change. AI will eventually make make this sort of plagiarism the norm.

Meanwhile ARK survival releases their beta, and people love it.
Its hilarious.
Also who the fuck was in charge of this art style. It hurts the eyes.

what stream is this from?

People weren't even really feeling it with the alpha and Arc Raider is already getting more attention than them. Probably more so after the recent plagiarism situation. The game seems dead in the water and there is nothing they can do to turn it around other than maybe paying a ton of money like millions to Antireal for their unintended contribution. They get to keep the art style, Antireal gets a big check, and this hopefully would mend the trust with their community as long as they don't steal another artwork in the future. Given their track record, that's probably a matter of time or inevitability unfortunately.

ARK survival

that game has been on early access for more than a decade, hasn't it

What's with this psyop OP spamming the same thread claiming Marathon had a unique art style?

Name another game in last 10 years that looked like nu-marathon

Why does it have to be in the last 10 years?

he means ark raiders

Tranny and Bungie use wipeout art style

Redditors and faggots now claim it's actually the tranny's own art style and they should hire another mentally ill troon

They just had some jeets steal the tranny's assets, why would they hire an unemployable tranny?

Why cant you answer a simple question?

name me one game released in the last 5 seconds that doesn't have marathons art style.
you can answer a simple question, right anon? because it seems like every game released in this period has the same art style

Your question is stupid so why would I bother?

my mom always said there's no such thing as stupid questions, only stupid answers

Nobody is talking about stealing an "artstyle", it was pioneered from The Designers' Republic years ago. And it isn't one artist, it's an entire group, Antireal.
The problem isn't using watered down vectorheart aesthetics, it's literally copy pasting PNGs from another artist straight in the game, zero editing even.

My bad he is right, I mean raider, fucking brainrot setting in.

Mirrors edge 2 catalyst. 2016.

Sony should just put this studio out of its misery.
First time i condone a shutdown.

Nobody is talking about stealing an "artstyle"

Maybe read the OP before posting in a thread.

Will they ever recover? No one liked the game anyway. They're having these Q&A sessions about how shitty the game is like they're just okay admitting their paid game isn't good yet just a few months from release.

Since when is stealing art a problem for people? Games nowadays are full of AI art too, which is 100% stolen all the time, and yet nobody seems to care. Additionally, Anon Babble is full of pirates who steal games on a regular basis.

OP is a retard and baiting, I'm agreeing with you.

AIchads win again

Not even close

Brainlet

AIjeets win again

What if the answer is another question? making that a stupid question

KWABOTY

hire valorant devs

game has stolen assets

imagine not just plagiarizing, but stealing literal vector graphics of basic shapes
How fucking lazy do you have to be to do this? Go into photoshop or SAI and just make something in 10 minutes you dumb fuck

We're all waiting for Fairgame$ here.

Learn to read you fucking moron

Synthethic
Tokyo 42

steal artist's work and base entirety of game's aesthetic on it

Lmao. Fuck Bungie.

are these incompetent retards done pissing money down the drain on woke companies and DEI and liberal retard hires or do they need to lose another couple billion before it sinks in?

who am I kidding they're gonna go bankrupt riding this all the way to zero like the morons they are

Give me Destiny 3

Screams the slop eater when the destiny 3 disguised as another game fails to be eaten.
It shocks me that the programming Bungie did to their fanbase failed.

That's not how that works. If someone makes an accusation someone will go in to verify one way or the other.
That's also how the Palworld debacle started with some people saying they look similar and then a bunch of model comparisons happened.

+ make it worse of course

Wipeout Omega

the most funny thing is copying this minimalist shit lmao.

Its money laundering you retard, they dont care if they go bankrupt

I knew this game was going to be fucking trash when their big reveal stream was a panel of themselves interviewed by themselves with a fucking live studio audience of themselves cheering whenever the host said anything.
Sony really thought these guys would just make "Halo, but PlayStation" and look where its got them.

Sony really thought these guys would just make "Halo, but PlayStation" and look where its got them.

Don't they have some IPs like Killzone or something sitting around they could use for that? They obviously don't care about being derivative slop, why not just start rebooting some of those games?

D-doesn't count

Same "clean" look
Same white + vivid colour style (ME2 does it better because it does not pair 2 jarring neon colours and goes for 1-2 colours max)
Same font styles
Same UI designs

Just because you don't like it, does not make it true. Especially since both were taking inspiration from the same art.

pioneered from The Designers' Republic years ago

It's older than that

They ran out of Sony's buyout money or something?

What is Nikita thinkin right now?

So what's their best course of action now?

cancel the entire game

delay it and try to rework a lot of the shitty gameplay and art decisions

ship it and hope you can rescue its reputation through post-launch content before everyone has completely given up on it

launch it as F2P

Delay seems like the only sane option. They can also try to launch it in F2P and make reworks along the way looking at the feedback as a form of early access but I'm not sure if their pride will allow them to do so.

hire/license the artists stuff, make a big pr show of apologizing, get one of the japanese dudes to bow infront of some cameras, and then forget it ever happened.

Concord 2.0 incoming

why are russians like this?

good morning sir I too agree thievery should not be punished. in fact it should be rewarded, yes-yes bloody bastard benchod sir

entire artstyle is stolen

nah a bunch of art was ripped from a xitter artist likely by a contractor, The buck stops with the art director ultimately and they are taking responsibility and doing the right thing but it's still gonna be a black stain on the "unique art style" selling point and the rest of the game doesn't have much going for it

Reminder to the few cucks playing destiny 2, all your hard earned money went to Marathon and this is the final result.
Did u rike it?

How many more failures will it take for them to stop trying to do GaaS?

They'll never stop. The appeal of having an infinite money generating game is so strong for them that they probably think none of the failures matters as long as one succeeds.

The logic here is the same as with silicon valley startups - it's worth to lose your money on 10 failed projects if you eventually find one that will print you money. So as long as Forknife, Destiny and other gaas exist bring dosh - never.

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NOOOOOO THAT'TH THEFT YOU'RE THTEALING!!!!!!!

cope. gonna cry? gonna shit your pants? pee pee in your diapey? maybe a little poopie?

709956753 (no (you))

why r u so mean to a multi million dollar corporation?? u gon poopie? let them steal all they want sheesh... edit: thank you for the gold kind stranger

waow ure so cool!!

Whether it releases F2P or P2P, i can almost guarantee they'll follow the modern season pass bullshit. I like the art style, i want to play it - but i won't waste my time or money if they follow that FOMO skinshop slop.

Unironically i don't give a fuck about some trannies stolen .PNG's and I want this game to come out and shock the shooter market. Imagine if it didn't follow the modern example of monetization, and had Halo 3/Reach tier gameplay with this awesome artstyle.

I fully expect another forgettable skin shop masquerading as a video game but i have some hope that it will be awesome. I love the aesthetics of the game, it reminds me of Jet Set Radio Future, Mirrors Edge and Squid Game.

ctrl c ctrl v

NOOOOOO THAT'TH THEFT YOU'RE THTEALING!!!!!!!

cope. gonna cry? gonna shit your pants? pee pee in your diapey? maybe a little poopie?

(This is my post now and give me youses)

>they even pasted in the original artists watermark in the actual ingame textures

no they didnt.

based

holy based

i kneel

You deserve this (you) for an original comment. How can i strive to be just like you, anon?

bungie pioneered seasonal slop and aggressive cash shop monetization for live service games. There's absolutely no chance that marathon doesn't follow the same model.

rekt

The face of someone who knows they just wasted 4 years of their lifetime on a product set for failure because he decided to plagiarize an artist on twitter and didn't even bother doing it properly.

The funniest shit is that they claimed it was a rogue artist who they promptly fired. Then it was found out that this guy alongside other people from bungie were following the artist for years without ever communicating. So they were completely aware of what was happening.

Imagine being this guy and having to go into the office the next day. Every one of your co-workers is staring at you. They know their jobs are in jeopardy. They know their careers in the industry might be tanked. How those people are now thinking about having to go home to THEIR families, sit down at dinner with their kids, and have a talk about their future and the uncertainty of their financial situation.

All because you, a lazy shitbag who couldn't be bothered to open up Krita or SAI or Photoshop to make a texture, had to steal art from some random nobody on twitter. And now he has to tell everyone he's sorry.

I think I'd kill myself in his position.

Even if you put the art debacle aside, the game seems to be a catastrophe. It's supposed to launch in four months, but during the stream the devs just kept saying "we are looking into things", "we are talking about it", "we have stuff planned". This shit should be finished by now and getting some last polishing, but they seem completely clueless about the gameplay and features and got nothing to say about it.

Risk of Rain 2

If marathon looked like this ingame I would play it

huh, that conveniently lines up with the same time that artist put up her work that was stolen! thats such a coincidence!

not even remotely the same style retard

He's thinking how the fuck can distract his playerbase about the cheating drama whit another unbalanced update adding the USAF Zip 22 to the weapons pool

Ironically it would have been helldivers but then they brought it out back behind the shed and shot it dead for zero reason

Its not bad, its just careless. Accidents like this happen easily, honestly.

Someone mixed reference pictures with concept pictures, and whoever made the decals translated reference pictures into game-ready decals. Or reference pictures were used for placeholders, but no one else in the team knew that.

Most likely the game just shouldn't have been put up for open test.

In all honesty I wouldn't self report that the game with the atrocious and unappealing art style plagiarized it from mine. What does it say about mine?

stealing art

not possible, art cannot be stolen. NO ONE OWNS art and as such it cannot be stolen. Only niggers, fags and kikes think otherwise

Go back.

your mom is a work of art. I stole her.

forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2025/05/17/new-marathon-info-bungie-morale-launch-worries-and-changing-plans/
ITS BUNGOVER

Why can't chuds create anything by themselves? Why are they so creatively bankrupt?

No one will care about this a week from now lol.

graphic stealism

kek

Just remove the tranny's art and keep the artstyle, it's not like he created it.
How the do faggot even think about the possibility of the game being cancelled because of some light plagiarism when the """artist""" himself said he doesn't even care enough to sue is beyond me.

Alot of gamedevs are closeted chuds, they are just being more quiet about their allegiance.

I don't understand why there's an artist making stuff like this in the first place
What is it for? "Hey look at this thing that could be a texture from Half Life"?

Just remove the tranny's art and keep the artstyle

They'll have to audit every asset in the game now

That's what I thought about Concord.

From what I've heard the level design, the gunplay, the mechanics, apparently every part of it was actually really great... all except the character design.

I hope the art team and any suits that signed off on it stood infront of the entire studio and publicly apologised for wasting years of everyone else's life.

They are "graphic designers", basically specialize in creating website's logo and user interface using vector art. In a more buzzword-y term, they are responsible for the corpo-artstyle.

They want to compete with gta?

Why not? It would give them an excuse for why it failed.

Honestly, i can understand why Bungie stole. These turds are not even art, just meaningless shapes with no signs of human characteristic nor artistic vision.

Because everything must be an argument with zero nuance. Some textures stolen = every asset stolen. Unique artstyle = artstyle previously unknown to man. Terrible gameplay = terrible everything.

defending the company cause the artist is a tranny

C’mon Anon Babble don’t go full retard

helldivers wasn't monetized heavily enough. which is one of the reasons why it was succeeding in the first place.

Unique artstyle

Making everything look like it's covered in hazmat stickers doesn't count as an artstyle

It's even worse when you remember that Bungie was overseeing all of those other multiplayer games that Sony was supposed to release. They cancelled all of them telling Sony that none of them would amount to anything, and now Bungie is full on foot-in-mouth because their own multiplayer game has already fumbled everything.

Bungie was overseeing all of those other multiplayer games that Sony was supposed to release. They cancelled all of them telling Sony that none of them would amount to anything

100% made up by you, none of this ever happened

This is the kind of shit that’s going to make CEOs completely kill off all the “work from home” crybabies. If you are forced to come to the office, at least then your boss can look over your shoulder and see your art progress. If you have the safety of being away from supervision, you have a much easier time of stealing shit.

looking over someone's shoulder is as easy as just bringing up their screen from time to time to check what they're doing, bosses can do this, IT sets it up so they can do this, the only reason they don't do it is because bosses are usually even lazier than their underlings
Return to office isn't about better oversight, it's about making other people miserable to feel better

Plagiarism happened before RTO too.
This is just incompetence and no overseers not doing their job.

Why the fuck are all of you retarded sheep believing the "it was just a single disgruntled junior employee!" line?

All because you

At this point everyone else is just as guilty for making the shitty game alongside him.

im releasing this fucking game this year and im done

I understand why bungie stole

(lists reasons they shouldn't have stolen)

anon?

What a based post saar Im going to screencap it and put it on twitter so that elon will give me money

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NOOOOOO THAT'TH THEFT YOU'RE THTEALING!!!!!!!

cope. gonna cry? gonna shit your pants? pee pee in your diapey? maybe a little poopie?

(This is my post now and give me youses)

Correct.

They have to be willing to stop outsourcing to pajeets first. Every fucking graphic design freelance site is filled with them flooding every open request with stuff taken off google images and AI slop for pennies.

based, hope all twitter """""artists""""" lose their jobs

Indians are based and right wing though, seething wokie

Nah, most are very liberal but are hetero so they only quietly resent not being able to make big tiddie games

leftie

big tiddie games

yeah right

real shit

so many bots around this topic not understanding the level of theft. it's not impressive that you thought for one second about something you just learned about and you came to a retarded conclusion, just be silent instead of retarded.

funnily, halo 1 only took like 4 years, and that had a very rocky development for the time.

should've used ai and then claim it's original

indians are going to be turned into dust if they don't simmer down

I can't believe they had to resort to stealing someone else's art and it still looks like complete shit.

Don't care, you go woke (be an artist) you go broke

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yeah worse than being a jeet fraud artist is being the artist the jeet frauds steal from. lmao.

her

it's a troon isn't it?

They stole from an unemployed artist, they could have hired that person for a few months, pay for the art, give credit and they wouldn't be in this mess.

At this point, beg Sony to indefinitely delay the game because "too much art was stolen by that one guy bro" then remake it as a single player doom-like

tranny artist

uhhhh why should i care again?

Why is always a former employee that is responsible for all the bad things a corporation does?

Because gaming journalists told you to.

How was the alpha test btw? What were the players' impressions? I only watched the trailers and that animated short, but never kept up with further news.

Some liked it and believe in Bungie, others thought it was playing too safe with like no comms or whatever it was.

What were the players' impressions?

A sudden improvement in their sleeping habits.

I see.
kek

They had a blast, just like they did with Concord

Are you saying that Bungie are chuds?

artists be like

let me just steal some artwork and take this paycheck

noooo stop it you CANT USE AI ART STOP

It's more of a problem for bungie because the entire artsyle of the game is inspired by the design. It is a house of cards that is falling because someone stole art directly from the source of inspiration. Imagine if a singer was inspired by Micheal Jackson, and then released a song under a new title that is just the entirety of "Bad" claiming it to be their own song.

Uh oh guys, I just played 5 and half hours of Marathon STRAIGHT and I can't wait for more!

The problem with AI is that it will mostly take over shitty art that dominates what most people look at. Any actual professional being asked for work and is in galleries doesn't have to worry, but for most artists that pump out garbage it will wreck them.

the stream was a goldmine for reactions
holyfuck dude, poor guy is going through hell but it was his own fault

can you believe this guy BLINKED? hahahaha look at the screengrab

So? Artists should do their art for the love of it, not for financial gain or fame.

Because gaming journalists will have to back xer now and companies only care about their opinion. It's either supporting the big corporation or the tranny and redditors might only like one side.

because laughing at bungie is funny

Blue lips SEXO
Fuck this game btw total bungie death, I shall instead spend my money making this plastic bitches worship human men

Any "woman" that writes "she/her" in their bio is 99% likely to be a man in a dress

Overall consensus: it's just plain boring. Good gunplay but 0 substance beyond that.

nothing will happen

unironically i really think this graphic design style (it's usually used in music related stuff) is awesome as fuck and it's sad that a lot of this shit was just copy pasted from the artist - mostly because why the fuck do they need to plagarize it if the simplistic style could very well be mimicked without blatant copy pasting, by an in house artist? sure, 'style copying' would be the point of contention, but who gives a shit about copying a "style" lmao it's like saying YOU CAN'T USE POINTILISM BECAUSE UMMM I DID IT FIRST....

tl;dr bungie is rarted for not just 'doing it themselves' (copy paste shit is egregiously stupid LOL)

has any studio sony or microsoft bought made a good game after being bought?

Arrowhead

her work

Trannyvestigators, fact check please?

ME2 does it better

His name is actually Ben Hook

All they had to do was pay some standard wage for the original artist to work on the game. A studio of 300 people and they couldn't just replace one artist position with the actual fucking artist?