Destiny 2 bans cheater from participating in all Bungie games in the past, present and in the into the future
The Destiny 2 cheater is now in debt to Bungie $500,000 and the company also preventing players from ever playing their games in the future.
It is often said that crime doesn’t pay. However, the smallest of things like cheating on a video game could have serious consequences when you are discovered.
The one Destiny 2. player has learned this lesson hard-way and was slammed by Bungie through the cost of a huge lawsuit which’s resulted in the player banned from playing any and all Bungie games, even those which are yet to release.
The player, who is known as Luca Leone, faced Bungie’s legal department for copyright when the cheating software was used with an overlay of a picture that was owned by Bungie the company itself. This software provided Leone the advantage of online competitions, leading to the suspension of the account.
Leone was able to create a variety of other accounts. Each were banned in the same way, but messages didn’t get across and the account owners are now penalized for every account that they created to keep playing games on the internet.
The case ended in Bungie being owed $350,000 for copyrights and an additional $200,000 to cover 100 instances of circumventing bans. It’s approximately $2,000 for every new account created to avoid the ban.
Leone was also ordered to erase any social media associated with Bungie and the activities they have within Bungie games. They’ve been banned permanently from all their developers’ games, both past and present and in the future. The same applies to interaction with any employee of Bungie because they’ve allegedly had a problem with staff members on social media, and are also required to keep 1000 feet away from workplaces and homes or even the apartments in which staff live or work.
This is certainly a severe penalty, but clearly it’s not something that’s deserved. Bungie has established very clear over the years that there is no mercy on cheaters or people who would steal or alter the company’s assets.
The hackers aren’t the only ones too, because earlier in the year Nintendo targeted the Nintendo Switch hacker with the equivalent of a million dollars in a lawsuit that they’ll probably be settling all the rest of their lives.
The lesson of this story is don’t fool with the developers of video games.
