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Bungie Demands $12 Million in Lawsuit Against Destiny 2 Cheat Seller VeteranCheats

Over 5,000 transactions with $2,000 per circumvention

By Zuhaad Ali Published February 8, 2023 February 8, 2023
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Since 2021, the Destiny 2 developer, Bungie has been taking major steps to tackle cheaters and cheat sellers in the game, that includes filing lawsuits against the developers of these cheat software. We’ve already seen a couple of lawsuits from Bungie against some prominent Destiny 2 cheat sellers like Elite Boss Tech, Ring-1, and VeteranCheats.

In August 2021, Bungie filed a lawsuit against VeteranCheats.com, one of many Destiny 2 cheat sellers. Shortly after the lawsuit was filed, Bungie identified one of the individuals named Mihai Claudiu-Florentin, who was operating the cheat software.

On February 7, 2023, Bungie filed a motion for default judgment against the defendants (pdf here). According to the motion, Bungie is seeking a total of $12 million ($12,059,912.98) in this default, which includes copyright infringement claims, circumvention claims, and attorney fees.

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“Bungie is entitled to default judgment on its claims and an award in the amount of $12,059,912.98. This amount includes actual damages of $146,662.28 on Bungie’s copyright infringement claims.

“Statutory damages of $11,696,000 on its circumvention claims (at $2,000 per circumvention device sold); and attorneys’ fees and costs in the amount of $217,250.70 to be supplemented with an award of Bungie’s attorneys’ fees and costs incurred after submission of this Motion.”

There have been at least “5,848 separate transactions for either a Destiny 2 Cheat or a premium cheat product containing Destiny 2 as an option” to the defendant’s Stripe account.

Bungie has Spent Over $2m to Combat Destiny 2 Cheats

It’s also been revealed that since November 2020, Bungie has spent more than $2 million alone to mitigate cheats in the game, which includes setting up “in-house cheat detection efforts” as well as “several forms of anti-cheat software, including but not limited to BattlEye”.

“Around September 2021, shortly after this lawsuit was filed and after Destiny 2 began to employ ‘BattlEye’ anti-cheat software in addition to Bungie’s in-house tools, we observed a rapid and several-fold increase in the advertised price of tracked boosting services.

“This correlation strongly suggests that cheat software is a practical necessity for that parasitic industry to function efficiently. We have no data to suggest that players using boosting services are informed when a booster plans to use cheat software and thereby imperil their account,” Bungie’s Deputy General Counsel James Barker says in his declaration. (pdf here)

Apart from that, Bungie has also sued a Destiny 2 YouTuber for $7m who sent fake DMCA takedowns on behalf of Bungie last year. Several content creators as well as Bungie were hit by these takedowns.

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Destiny 2’s newest expansion–Lightfall is just around the corner, that adds a brand-new subclass called “Strand”, a new secret city on Neptune called Neomuna, and tons of new weapons and armor.

Destiny 2 Lightfall launches on February 28, 2023, on PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, and PC.

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