>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

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.

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?

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

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)

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?

Thought so, thanks.

Every single time you see someone working on this kind of content you just KNOW it's a man.
Actual w*men don't work on shit like this.

The fact they couldn't just do this, but make it their own is funny. You can't prevent someone from using the same style as you and even complaining that they based their style off of your old art would get eye rolls.
But the fact it's so simple and they still couldn't be arsed to make their own stuff leads to some major questions about what else they were too lazy to do.

what else they were too lazy to do.

make animations, model anything worth looking at in the game world, implement some kind of chat, and on and on

ADD MORE BLACK SHEBOON MONKEYS TO IT, MAKE SURE THEY ARE ALL FAT OBESE AND LOOK HORRIBLE

She actually has ground to sue as long as she doesn't talk to Bungie, everyone on twitter is telling her don't contact Bungie and get a lawyer.

lol bungienigger melty
game's gonna flop lmao
get woke go broke (but unironically)

Even streamers were shitting on it, and they were the ones that stand the most to win (and get hired/do sponsor streams in the future for Marathon)

its all stolen from 90's albums and industrial commercial signage

how would you feel if you didnt eat breakfast this morning

There's more to be taken from this man's appearance than his eyes being closed for 1 frame. His eyebags look like someone who hasn't slept in weeks, or who just got chewed out by management. Probably both in all likelihood.

If the art director doesnt get fired over this then I will be very surprised.

Its already looking like this, considering they forced him to appear on livestream. I bet the upper management is pissed as fuck at him, making sure something like this doesnt happen is 100% his responsibility as a supervisor.
He will be part of the sacrificial lamb.

someone link me to this trainwreck of a stream

I bet the upper management is pissed as fuck at him

I would be, if my multi-million dollar investment was jeopardized by "artists" who lifted assets straight off the internet. Like, did this man even ask for PSD files from these people? Was he IN on the theft?

It seems like the easiest, least costly thing they could do now is go "Ok, this is all fucked, but Mr. Artist guy? Here's a money hat." License/buy/hire the art. Gotta pay artists what they're worth, right? It's a win-win. The game ships on time, the tranny can afford his next couple years of boob pills, and Bungie gets to say they did the right thing; not the greatest PR, but PR even detractors have to admit is cleaning up the mess and making amends.

But oh, of course not. Instead it's

internal audit

art redesign panic

flush all the marketing dollars already spent down the drain

try to launch late and overbudget when the sour taste of the game is still firmly lodged in everyone's mouth

Considering how much of this art is in the game, and how the entire art-style is built around this very specific kind of art, there's no way in hell it was just some lazy intern that caused this all
Sure they'll keep claiming it was all done by some guy who already left the studio but that's just because for both PR and legal reasons admitting the truth would be so so much worse for Bungie as a whole

He was either in on it or we was too stupid to notice.

he’s already fired

They burned all the good will
Specially since this is not the first time they were caught plagizarizing shit off the internet so blatantly.

And you know what happened the last time they settled with the affected artist?
They just didn't pay the artist at all and let the issue end up in limbo.
You don't hate these people enough.

You're assuming this is the only art they stole.
Imagine the fallout that would result if they paid this one artist, put their name in the opening as "based on the artworks of some guy on Twitter", perhaps even put him in as art co-director, and then like a month after launch it turns out they also plagiarized from some other Twitter artist!
Hence the full audit presumably by someone from either Sony Group itself or an external company.

Him following her on twitter is extremely damning. The odds of him doing that, AND not being complicit is approximately zero.

there was artwork the literally still had the artist in question's name on it and he didn't apparently even notice
that's incompetence on an insane scale

fired for what? He's responsible but it's not his fault and it's not a big deal. Stolen assets are gone and that's it

because its like black on black crime, entertaining

it's not a big deal

L O L
O
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this is a place for overreaction after all

Ooooh, so what we have here is a pattern of behavior. Plan B then, sue Bungie into bankruptcy.

I couldn't give less of a shit. Everyone should know by now that all the talent left bungie ages ago (the tranny artist in question was not "talent" and took over for someone who did have talent) and that all the shit they shit out now is shit. Glad to see bungie burn more quickly, I guess.

alright anon, explain to me what part of this event you think is a big deal?

it's not a big deal

they're honestly lucky that the artist came out with it when they did and didn't wait until launch
they could have destroyed bungie over this - their shit is all over the marketing, game, etc

Considering they apparently also stole a logo from some chink company, I think it's more complex than just paying off the one fag.

eat my dick faggot

They could have taken 5 minutes in mspaint to replicate the style but they stole it for some reason lmfao

I can't wait for September, xisters!

If they weren't attention whoring and trying to get sympathy points (and maybe some money), this would have been the better thing to do in terms of net gains.
But I can't say many artists are really known for thinking ahead on anything.

its not a big deal

you people have no idea how terribly damning public perception is
the stream where they were supposed to please their fans with news of the game and how they are working for the better and listening to the community ended up as a complete shitshow of people calling them thieves

they really needed everything to go smoothly to salvage the project, bring back consumer confidence, but this incident of YET ANOTHER PLAGIARISM might just seal and deal and kill the game for good

See, but youre assuming its just one guy they stole from

Yesterday it came out theres some chinese logo company they stole from also

This is probably just the tip of the iceberg. Who knows how deep the rabbit hole goes if something like this flies and noone notices it at all, and it makes it to the live client.

What other stuff did they steal and noone noticed yet?

I love seeing a second concord in the making

So wait, their defense is "we fired and mismanaged so many people and assets that we didn't know the copyright status of files we put in the game?"

That's not a very good defense.

the only people saying this are drive by posting about a topic they don't care about or paid posters hoping to kill this asap.

Its more like "it was my brother who did it, he was on the playing at that time".

go make a game, launch it on steam, and include a bungie asset directly copy pasted in your game
see how long it stays available for sale

I worded my post weird but I'm saying

it's not a big deal

then my post

former Bungie artist

Does this mean it was someone who hasn't worked there for a while, or could it mean it was a current team member at the time of the scandal who was quickly fired, thereby making them a "former" artist by the time Bungie posted that message?

Anyones got the webm of the art director guy's hand shaking during the livestream yesterday?

Shit was funny

it's not a big deal precisely because all you have to do to rectify the issue is remove the asset

I wonder if all the "it is not a big deal" posters would dare say the same for disney funny mouse, or would it be a violation of their contractual obligations if they started troubles with such a powerful company?

They probably currently have no idea who actually provided the assets they used since its all a chaotic shitshow over there, the story about the mysterious former employee is just standard bs tactics

IT means someone that left years ago or something. Its the same argument they made last time its just corpospeak.

i dont care about bungieslop but they're just decals, not the entire art

I think these people are so used to crying on social media and using it as pressure against other denizens of those platforms, it doesn't truly occur to them that they have to get the fuck out of the house and lawyer up. Like they think their particular flavor of internet defense force will make everything right somehow, the same way they think retweeting some retarded cause is "making a difference".

It's the entire art, read the thread.

tell that to the cheat companies bungie has sued for millions of dollars over copyright infringement

comes out of nowhere and completely blows marathon out of the water

it must be soul crushing seeing your project for 4 years be deemed as mediocre, meanwhile a litearl who company releases a game in the same genre and gets praised everywhere as the savior of the genre

not the entire art

Bro it literally has the artists personal signature in it. They straight up ctrl v the entire portfolio.

Not really a literal who company, the finals is pretty popular and it's made up of a lot of old dice talent.

"former" anything is their way of shifting blame out of the current people to some non-existent entity
But they forgot the part where the art director and a bunch of bungie people follow the artist they just plagiarized from.
So they can't pretend they didn't know, because they actually did know and there's proof.

Marathon is still yet another extraction shooter no one asked for. I'm not saying its' lifespan will be shorter than Concord, but people are pissed.

you mean the company that didn't respect the copyright and whose infringement was their entire business? that's what you're comparing removal of a bunch of decals as soon as the infringement was discovered against?

It means they have no proper documentation and can't tell how the files got into the game. It's really not hard to have a file metadata and organization scheme that lets you quickly see who authored a file, when, if it includes outside assets and the copyright info/source of those assets, etc.

If it's true that's extremely fucking embarrassing for the company and investor confidence is going to be shaken, but they could also just be desperately trying to cover their ass from a suit.

That is company policy. Get away with anything until caught in the act.

you mean the company that didn't respect the copyright and whose infringement was their entire business

Sure sounds like Marathon to me

that's what you're comparing removal of a bunch of decals as soon as the infringement was discovered against?

Ah yes that's why they were blocked from showing ANY game footage in the latest live stream and why they've cancelled the June marketing trailer. "It's just a few stickers bro"

be workan on marathon

following extraction shooter trend

hear arc raiders switched from looter shooter to extraction shooter

switch marathon from extraction shooter to looter shooter

I saved marathon. I will be awaiting my check.

It is funny how in this quick little pot stir they went for, it will be a big deal for a short time and then everyone will forget about it by the time the game releases. I wonder which artists, if any, have their stuff outright ripped and are just waiting for the game to be out to suddenly "find their art" within the game itself via screenshots and then absolute tear the ass out of the studio with an even stronger case than this one.

hey ,that affects us

They probably currently have no idea

They should know.

does the artist who had their assets stolen get anything out of this or can bungie just go "we're sorry :(" and move on

it's just a few stickers bro

yes? they have to remove them from marketing material lest they get DMCA'd. This is them adhering to copyright law. unlike your dosgshit example of the company who blatantly ignored it and didn't respond to DMCA

They're just straight up lying, since the senior devs themselves have acknowledged the artist long before Marathon started production.

Theoretically it's possible that a junior designer went rogue and the designers didn't notice, but on a legal basis this is a meaningless detail. People representing Bungie knew who the artist was and then Bungie stole that artist's work - from a legal standpoint, this is proof of malice.

It means they have no proper documentation and can't tell how the files got into the game.

Nah, they just don't talk shit about it publicly. Same how you still be under NDA after leaving a company.

shill faggots: the previous examples of bungie stealing artwork were much smaller than this. adjust your script accordingly. The artwork is in everything related to this game from textures to promotional material to the ARG they created. Not all of you suitfags are escaping with a paycheck this time hahaha.

hopefully xhe doesn't get anything. "artists" should not be rewarded for drawing a few triangles. this is akin to patent-trolling

bungie said they would compensate the artist but that's them trying to save face, they don't actually owe them any money

Might as well start from the top.

This is going to be way worse than Concord. It failed because it sucked and nobody cared about it, the most notable part of it was the wasted bankroll. What's going on with Marathon is going to be prime buttfucked hours for Bungie.

not the entire art

Loss being in Marathon basically confirms it is. The theft is so comprehensive it includes additional assets not even related to the core art style. It's ALL of it.

I imagine them cancelling the ability to preorder next month is their lawyers trying to argue they've gained no financial benefit from the theft

I think it's funnier that part of the definitive proof was the artist hiding Loss in one of the art pieces.

They do actually owe them money, they have already used their art in their advertising campaign.

pottery

same as every other shooter slop nothing interesting there

Artist can sue since their artwork wasn't just "placeholder" it was being used in promo material and press kits. So it was already being used for commercial purposes.
Bungie will ofcourse try to say "we are very sorry and we will compensate you"
But the last time this happened. they didn't compensate the affected artist shit, proof to never settle with the company.

A good lawyer can easily turn your life around in this situation. So the artist must avoid any communication with Bungie and cash in their lifetime money check after Bungie gets fucked in court.

reminder that Sony paid billions of dollars for this

that where then revealed that they where imported by the guy bitching and reworked to be closer to copies which the guy later admitted to, yet it is continually parroted as fact

Inspiration and portfolio. If someone needs ideas for a corpo/tech look, they can hit this artist up and get some easily. This artist also when applying for a job can go hey, look, this is my portfolio, I am good at making shit look techy and futuristic within these styles. Hire me.

Theoretically it's possible that a junior designer went rogue and the designers didn't notice, but on a legal basis this is a meaningless detail.

There is no any conspiracy. It's just concept art shenanigans. Someone who done assets decided he can stole shit from no name artist OR (this one is pretty legit) he just used pinterest. Pinterest was a popular tool for concept artist to get random photos for meshing.

Give it to me straight, bros. What is the probability that, after this fiasco, Bungie scraps this cringe art style and goes back to something closer to the original Marathon games

Bungie scraps this cringe art style and goes back to something closer to the original Marathon games

0? It's not artstyle. Basically fonts n shiet.

0%

Sunk cost and tainted name

They either push it out and hope for a miracle, or abort it before birth

200 million game, the artist is already probably drowning in lawyers contacting himher

I don't think there's a conspiracy, unless Bungie employees are so stupid that they're openly acknowledging stealing work. At most companies no way that would happen
However, they're also insanely incompetent - the art director is a fan of this artist, and the artist's name is literally on some of the stolen art in the game. How the fuck does he miss that?

0
theres so much money put into it that investors can't wait anymore to see returns

you are watching a car crash in slowmo

brother, bungie is not surviving long enough to do so

Art director mainly just controls art direction and barely do legit artworks tho. Maybe he said "copy this dude" to his team and someone 1:1 plagiarized everything. He's not some newbie after all.

That'll be up to whoever buys the rights to the Marathon IP during Bungie's bankruptcy sale.

Halo 1 at least had an excuse of shifting genres and gameplay halfway through
This is just sad

is it not his job to review the art going into the game? If it was one sticker I see how that slips through
It's all over the fucking place though
Dude was asleep at the wheel

Only 4 maps

No campaign

You serious? Why is Bungie ignoring the stuff that made them such good devs in the first place?

The problem is that a senior dev who is "being inspired by" art should be familiar with the art they're actually just basically stealing, so they can at least notice the direct assets and have them removed.
A senior dev who is stealing an art style should be very sure their documentation is clear so that nobody can accidentally mistake copyrighted art for a shared inhouse asset.
Any fucking artist working in the videogame industry should be aware of the Capcom textures in RE4 incident and be sure to avoid doing that either by accident or on purpose.

So this is multiple levels of recursive incompetency. They stole something, didn't actually know what they were stealing because it's just squares and logos lmao, and had no proper organisation or documentation to allow anyone else to prevent their art theft being "smoking gun" levels of blatant.
And here we are at fucking LOSS being evidence.

all their good employees quit or got fired

it's not his fault

As the art director, it is at least 50% his fault. There are many steps someone in charge can take to minimize the chance of plagiarism, like asking for source files, which would take a thief so much effort to fake, they'd be better off making the art from scratch the first time around.

Marathon will be staying in the Sony IP purgatory forever alongside Lemmings and Wipeout

Here might be an amusing exercise: go through the assets looking for file dates. A ton of shit got stolen from Danny McTranny, but it would be even funnier if those images were getting imported into Marathon in the same chronological order as the original art posts.

That really fucking sucks.

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nice

that's kind of the point, they're soulless cyberpunk corporate art and logos

Get caught stealing art because a meme loving tranny put loss in his work and it's 1:1 in game

There's innocent reference use but any company operating on a scale Bungie does would absolutely have someone making sure that anything they made was legally distinct and that if they were using reference material, that it was never in anything that went live or was public-facing for obvious reasons.
This isn't the first time this happened with Bungie but it's so egregious you had to wonder if they were either just planning to bully this lady or hope their game would be beneath notice.
A more conspiratorial minded person might think this is just a timebomb to buy their game a few more precious days or something or even just tank the project out of spite or something.

Either way it's being dumped into the heaviest release season of the year and Sony has already tactically positioned Ghost of Yotei a few weeks later in case they need to Concord-Astro Bot it and divert marketing budget rapidly. Long term I suppose Fortnite and COD won't have to worry about a minor speedbump at the end of September as they get ready for Halloween events.

I kind of wonder if Sony is going to force them to release it anyway so it flops and they get out of having to pay the last of the bonuses to these fucking retards and can just wipe their hands of Bungie and be done with it

The funniest part of these isn't their on-point mockery of the situation, but the fact that they were made in a few minutes with more effort and care than the implementation of the stolen assets in Marathon.

CONCORD 2

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Guys I'm gonna be honest. I don't give a fuck that some poor tranny had his work stolen. I just really fucking hate Bungie.

same

same

i hate trannies
but i hate corporations even more

its just that simple

That's why we're here.
Ignore everyone who tries to derail this by talking about trannies, artists or AI.

Of course
Nobody likes the tranny, it's just our useful idiot this time

'ate trannys
'ate bungie
simple as

bungie fans want more destiny

here, have an extraction shooter instead

OK, I guess

"developers"
You're telling me they had 300 guys working on this game that's going to peak at 300 players?

billion not million billion with a B

lady

Sony acquired Bungie in 2022 for $3.6 billion. The deal was primarily motivated by Sony’s desire to strengthen its live-service game capabilities, as Bungie has expertise in that area through games like Destiny 2.

Breakdown of the Deal:
$1.2 billion of the $3.6 billion was earmarked for employee retention and incentives.

The remaining ~$2.4 billion was the effective purchase price for the company itself.

Has Sony Made That Money Back?
As of 2025, Sony has not made back the full $3.6 billion investment.

LMAO

redditors are embarrassing

this faggot followed her on twitter

her

her

her

be sony

see microsoft buy up mojang, bethesda, and actiblizz

"oh yeah? well watch what i can do with MY money!"

buy bungie for $3.6 billion

get no exclusivity

get no talent because the retarded CEO fired everybody shortly after the acquisition

ask bungie to oversee and ensure more than a dozen different gaas titles being made by other playstation studios

shitcan almost all of them

helldivers 2 manages to squeak by and actually does really well, especially on PC

immediately fuck everything up and fumble hard by pissing off the entire PC audience after telling them they'll need a PSN account to continue playing the game (not bungie's fault but still important to the story)

backtrack on the PSN account requirement but the damage is already done and PC players don't trust you anymore and stop playing the game anyway

only thing left is concord

spend nearly a billion marketing the absolute fucking shit out of concord because it now has to be able to carry the weight of a bunch of other gaas games that got scrapped

it launches then shuts down a week later, becoming the fastest flop ever and gets relentlessly mocked even to this day

well, everything else was completely fucked, but at least bungie has marathon in the pipeline, and it'll do well despite the rocky reception to the alpha, right?

the current plagiarism controversy happens

The amount of irreversible damage Jim Ryan has done to the PlayStation brand can never be overstated.

Why did it all have to turn to shit
youtube.com/watch?v=7isqWSWGM2s

They're full of shit, multiple Bungie devs (the art director himself included) were following the artist on Twitter. The "former employee" excuse is a total lie.

I must admit. I like the artstyle in general but not the ingame exectution. The teaser and the cinematic trailers are cool. The game looks lame.
They should have went with gigamalls on planet orbits or something when it comes to maps. Or business district in some cyberpunk megapolis.
And better looking characters of course.

DIE BUNGIE DIEEEEEE

DIE BUNGIE DIEEEEEE

DIE BUNGIE DIEEEEEE

DIE BUNGIE DIEEEEEE

If you ask me there's two conflicts at Sony in regards to Bungie.
One is that Microsoft and Activision were smart enough to recognize Bungie and Destiny specifically was a money pit. Sony wanted to get in on the live service craze and figured Bungie had the special sauce. This is also why Concord got so much money with an unproven team, they're ex-Bungie, surely they can turn shit into gold. And then the only thing that came out of it is TLOU2's multiplayer got cancelled because they couldn't live service it and the most disastrous flop in video game history.
This isn't unique to Sony, around the same time Zenimax greenlit a shitload of live service projects when they were looking to be bought(eventually by Microsoft) because "live service" and seeing the billions of dollars that Fortnite and COD bring in on a monthly basis is heroin to shareholders.
Haven Studios is in the news again, Jade Raymond left having not done anything of note since leaving Ubisoft in 2014. Probably can tell Fairgame$ is going to be another Concord and might as well get the golden parachute early.

Which brings us to the other issue, Concord was a disaster but Helldivers 2 was a success, albeit one from a studio that isn't under Sony's control, which basically validated the idea that they can keep hurling shit at the wall at a premium rather than F2P and eventually it'll pay off. And for the billions of dollars spent on Bungie and the other stuff, they're gonna keep going till they get their COD/Fortnite that doesn't give a chunk of its money to someone else.

it's not just the textures at this point, the game's entire art style and aesthetic is based on her artwork that they stole. They can replace the actual blatant textures but they can't replace the wholesale design and soul of the game unless they delay it another year+ to change that shit entirely

I predict a "loss".

OH MY GOD THEY STOLE AN ARTSTYLE??? (something that you cannot steal)

check it out this guy is too stupid to recognize art styles lmao

how does this happen? don't these companies have like millions of dollars to spend?

her

One you get to the top you treat your success as granted and stop putting effort.

why don't you explain to me how you steal something that no one is allowed to own

do you have a photo proving otherwise?

why don't you gargle my balls lmao

CEOs keep cutting corners

hey that TATA company we had a meeting with said we can outsource all this art load to Indians for just pennies lets do it

entire company implodes

These companies are committing suicide by saving what amounts to pennies for them just so their boomer investors can upgrade their yachts because they are dying soon and need to squeeze everything they can out of us

concession accepted

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Sorry but all that money is used to buy the CEO new cars instead

I fucking hate reddit bootlickers so god damn much.

Constantly screeching about ebil AI stealing artists hard work

Constantly screeching about trannies

Corpo gets caught actually literally stealing from a tranny

U-uhm maybe it was just a mistake by one rogue former artist I'm sure they didn't mean to do it despite the multiple times they've already done it just give them a fair chance to explain!

cope and seethe retard
it's called you lost in the court of public opinion
now accept these nuts nigga

we want the "every drum and bass album cover from the 2000s" aesthetic

they haven't made money with it

But they intended to. Intending to commit a crime is still a crime.

Ah its ok for billion dollar sony to steal when its a trannie they stole from and then charge me $70 for no single player multiplayer only!

i dont care how mentally ill the artist was, its still ripping it off 1:1.

It's called Bungie because they'll get the rope

But developers will starve to death if we don't raise prices to 100$!

Nigga what are you babbling about

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

Stolen assets were in the trailers. It wouldn't have mattered

please refer to when trying to derail the thread

I'll be reporting you to your manager for using the N word

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kek fair do's i take back my statement

no one says bungee rope
it's bungee cord, retard

the ConCord

Please don't I'm already on parole for racism

What's the difference between a rope, a cord and an owl?
My ass

Reddit treats video game companies like charities it's quite disgusting. Like the entire site has a biased far left view on corporations except if the corporations makes video games

they treat devs like saints it's fucking abhorrent

now you have to stream it faggot

that's some nice variety for a richfag classic collection

poorfag here, at what point do you stop caring for other human beings?

It's not just a couple of images that were used in the game Sukdeep, the entire visual identity is stolen from the artist's portfolio.

If you develop the capability to create something one day you might understand.

Highly unlikely though for your kind but I've seen orangutans use tools to open a Coconut
so, there's a chance.

her

from the get go
that's how you become rich in the first place

Implying Bungie isn't getting scrapped themselves.

I stole your mother's anal virginity

You also stole your father's anal virginity as you were born.

Galleries are a fucking money-laundering scheme for jews, as well as a glownigger conspiracy to discredit socialist realism. You can exhibit a literal fucking banana in the galleries.

wanted Bungie's Concord

got Bungie's Hyenas

lol
lmao even

Bungie aren’t chuds they’re just pretentious assholes.

a banana

Something actually tangible? That's too much, anon.
mymodernmet.com/invisible-sculpture-salvatore-garau/
Galleries are so huffed up on old paint that they can come up with shit like this.

first they went for the trannies, and I said nothing, for I hate trannies
then they went for me, and there was no one left to defend me