I think yall need to be aware of this. Its disappointing to see this happening (at least) a THIRD time from bungie. Im an artist in the marathon creator program and like. They cant say they value artists when shit like this keeps happening yk - ThreadSky

destinythememe.bsky.social • 18 days ago

I think yall need to be aware of this. Its disappointing to see this happening (at least) a THIRD time from bungie. Im an artist in the marathon creator program and like. They cant say they value artists when shit like this keeps happening yk

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the Marathon alpha released recently and its environments are covered with assets lifted from poster designs i made in 2017.

@bungie.net @marathonthegame.bungie.net

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smudgershepherd.bsky.social•18 days ago

"Value" as in treating them en masse as disposable twice so someone high up could fill their garage with exotic vehicles? Kinda feel like going with "they learned nothing" here

ashazzminscreed.bsky.social•18 days ago

Colossally disappointing and angering to see this happen once again

spark4days.bsky.social•18 days ago

what mf at Bungie keeps sneaking stolen shit into destiny and now marathon

there's someone at Bungie doing it that won't speak up about doing it and won't get fired istg

shirodoesgames.bsky.social•18 days ago

Ngl, DTM...they're probably scraping all art from creator programs at this point. There are just a few cases that get spotted.

thatbadgunky.bsky.social•18 days ago

Bungie can't seem to shake the plagerism off, this year especially.

destinythememe.bsky.social•18 days ago

No no the red war one was stupid and should not be categorized with this

thatbadgunky.bsky.social•18 days ago

True, there was the Ace of Spades ornament too (last year, I think?).

thatbadgunky.bsky.social•18 days ago

Then again, there was the Season of the Deep cut scene too 😬

edelweiss.xipha.social•18 days ago

Jesus, AGAIN?

silverliningguy.bsky.social•18 days ago

Wasn’t this handled by their 3rd party contract for branding and design? Bungie is still the one at fault but at least it doesn’t look like Bungie workers did this, they just didn’t catch it.

destinythememe.bsky.social•18 days ago

I work with 3rd party agencies and we're responsible for providing them the right resources. Unsure why bungie would ever let them get their own assets

evelyndotgif.bsky.social•18 days ago

i gotta ask, is this really on bungie as a whole? its some tiny icons on what looks like a crate in an alpha, fairly easy to miss imo at least. obvs it should be removed and the artist compensated, but still.

destinythememe.bsky.social•18 days ago

Absolutely imo. Its still very irresponsible

reovyn.bsky.social•18 days ago

What is the legality here, like morality is shot, fuck whoever stole the art & whoever greenlit, but I'm legit curious. Like is the original artist's inspired by Marathon OG? If so does Bungie have some TOS or UA-based claim over IP-related artpieces?

How does this work for it to happen so often?

destinythememe.bsky.social•18 days ago

Marathon 1994 looks like this btw

reovyn.bsky.social•18 days ago

No I know, I'm referring to the "Aleph" part of it (Aleph One is the whole fanmade updated engine that was made and even endorsed by Bungie like a year ago when the Classic games came out on Steam).

I'm not defending them in any way, I just cant grasp my head around how this shit happens so much!

reovyn.bsky.social•18 days ago

Like even if someone can't fight you in court, social media isnt a new fucking thing, they'll expose your ass and people WILL see it.

So how does it fucking happen and they dont even like, hide it? alter it?

I dunno, situation's fucked, hope the OG artist gets some justice.

destinythememe.bsky.social•18 days ago

Yeah thats fair. Fan art is a legal gray space but usually studios dont have the balls to justify using fan art w/o compensation bc that will effectively kill their artist community

eggai.bsky.social•17 days ago

Bungie today, lawsuits over stolen story, backlash from another stolen art case, another Disney royalty check written for a dlc.

Ja my fav game is cooked

destinythememe.bsky.social•17 days ago

Yall we do NOT need to support the red war plagiarism case guy when we're (rightfully) bashing bungie for stealing the artist's work😭that mf was literally making up destiny lore and copyright claiming sentences. We got legit criticism we dont gotta encourage that guy

eggai.bsky.social•17 days ago

tbf i just woke up and got all that shit slapped on my face didnt rly care to look into it with all the other stuff that's happening to bungie

destinythememe.bsky.social•18 days ago

I think the last time this happened i mentioned working with third party agencies isnt really an excuse (i have worked with third parties - they get sent assets from us, and they should only be allowed to work with approved assets). I stg if they say "its agency" again

thatoneguyjm.bsky.social•18 days ago

A perfect self-inflicted storm of unreasonably rushed timelines, increased external dev reliance, eliminated positions, and rushed (if any) oversight. Bungie leadership needs to own this.

aethyne.bsky.social•18 days ago

Apparently, the Marathon AD has been a follower of Antireal on Twitter for a few yrs now, so I don't see how they could feasibly pull that excuse again when it's pretty clear the point of discovery of the work is, well, him.

It'll be very interesting to see how they respond, this time.

ascendantraisin.bsky.social•18 days ago

like truly even when you could give them the benefit of the doubt in a game as long-running as D2 and how it MIGHT be understandable for something to slip through the cracks MAYBE once, but a game so early in development there is literally no excuse for this dude it's so embarrassing

groyalprime.bsky.social•18 days ago

What's the point in trusting Bungie's "design language" if it's just ripped from someone else.

Like, what's "ALEPH"? Some kind of organization important in the lore? ... Nothing apparently, because they seemingly stole the text from someone else.

This blows.

groyalprime.bsky.social•18 days ago

Ok, ALEPH has apparently origins with Marathon, still ... that's just ass.

The excuse "we mistook external fan-art for internal concept art" ... If you like someone's work, then hire them. Even if it's just for a one-time gig.

soh-jin.bsky.social•18 days ago

I mean the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet is in no way Bungie's IP

greenofthesky.bsky.social•18 days ago

Something something didn’t value artists enough to keep them employed

But seriously this instantly killed my hype for Marathon.

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