The same day it officially became a PlayStation studio, Bungie filed a lawsuit against a Destiny 2 player whom it accused of cheating and making constant threats against its employees. The developer claimed that Luca Leone violated the game’s limited software license (LSLA) agreement on several occasions. He is seeking $ 150,000 in damages and a precautionary measure preventing Leone from “harassing, harassing or otherwise engaging in unwanted or unsolicited contacts with Bungie, its employees or Destiny 2 players,” it reports. Kotaku.
Bungie said he banned Leone several times from using the Destiny 2 cheating software while streaming to Twitch. In an attempt to circumvent the ban, Leone created 13 accounts, each of which constituted a new breach of the LSLA, according to the filing. The study claimed that Leone violated the LSLA on other fronts, including selling Destiny 2 accounts that contain non-transferable logos or badges that players can earn. Bungie says these “are appreciated by many players, especially collectors.”
In addition, Bungie claims Leone has made threats about the studio and its employees. According to the lawsuit, Leone tweeted “about his desire to” burn “the Bungie office building and [wrote] that Bungie’s specific employees “weren’t sure” given Leone’s intention to move to their neighborhood. “
In May, an image of the employee badge of Dylan Gafner, manager of the Destiny 2 community, appeared on a Twitter account that is said to belong to Leone. “I just realized I’m going to move to a place that’s 30 minutes from dmg,” Leone supposedly wrote, followed by “not sure.” Bungie points out that “dmg” probably refers to Gafner, who uses the Twitter ID @ dmg04.
Leone’s alleged Twitter account has been blocked since then. Your informed Twitch channel includes no more than a biography reading “[23-year-old] Bungie playtester from Los Angeles. “Engadget has contacted Leone to comment.
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The filing follows a series of harassment cases against game developers. Paul Tassi of Forbes wrote that Destiny 2 sandbox design leader Kevin Yanes has almost left Twitter. Reporters reportedly reacted furiously when Yanes said an element of the original Destiny will not return. “I dream of a day when video game developers (from any studio) can talk openly about their work without being harassed,” Gafner wrote on Twitter on Saturday.
A few weeks ago, Sony Santa Monica developers received unsolicited threats and photos of their genitals for not revealing the release date of God of War: Ragnarök when the studio planned to do so. Sony Santa Monica announced the launch time just a few days later.
This isn’t the first time Bungie has targeted players with legal action. Just last month, he sued someone who allegedly uploaded music from the Destiny 2 soundtrack to file fake DMCA notices against content creators.