Bungee’s legal counsel is certainly busy, and in recent years studios have taken an increasingly aggressive approach to fraudsters, hackers, and potential malicious jerks. Studios, one of the pioneers of a true live service approach to game development, also need to focus on addressing some of the inevitable issues surrounding villains, and this particular. The target of is troublesome.
Proceedings filed in Seattle District Court I see a bungee aiming for one Lucaleone. Destiny 2 developers claim to have created multiple accounts to circumvent the ban, livestream fraud, and threaten developer employees.
The proceedings allege that Leone streamed herself on the Twitch channel “miffysworld.” On December 6, 2021, Leone created an account using his display name “!”. This account will be banned on May 22, 2022 after streaming the use of fraudulent software. However, Leone was ready and preemptively created a second account called “GOT2GETIT”.
The proceedings then elaborate on a series of events in which Leone creates a new account as quickly as Bungy can ban. The studio was clearly tracking his actions closely. The names of these accounts included “TRAP $ TAR MIFFY”, “ugl1kgwj4kn7emj”, “why”, and “gerogetwo”. One of the sequence of names provides insight into Leone’s thinking at the time. “Bungie” has been banned, replaced by the banned “bungiemad” and replaced by the banned “hahahalolxd”.
There are many other accounts, and the proceedings allege that Leone created another account that Bungy did not specifically ban. The proceedings actually detail how Leone boasted that Bungy wasn’t smart enough to stop him. Bragging from Leone’s account was public and often included a bungee account, like a tweet.
The proceedings then turned to a more serious allegation, claiming that on May 18, 2022, Leone tweeted an image of the Bungie community manager Dylan Gafner’s employee badge with the hashtag #NewProfilePic. In reply to this tweet, Leone wrote: [Gafner’s initials]”Before following up on that tweet, he says,” He’s not safe. “
Leone tweeted about Gaffner on another occasion, and the proceedings suggested that he set fire at the bungee headquarters, telling the studio.Keep the door lockedHe posted a composite image of the bungee community manager. The concern, as revealed in the proceedings, was that Leone had moved to Washington at this point (the bungee headquarters are in Seattle).
Finally, the proceedings detail how Leone sold accounts and in-game emblems on the famous online marketplace for such, citing his ads and pitches. Next, I’ll explain how Bungy caught him. Much of it is IP tracking, and it seems that Leone sometimes forgets to cover the truck, but our mastermind cheats when ordering Bungy’s merchandise to his name and home address. I made some other errors, such as using the email address associated with.
The proceedings summarize Leone’s identity as follows:
- The email account is associated with Leone’s Destiny 2 activity, the OG Users activity with fraudulent emblems and clan name sales, and his full name and address.
- All Leone Destiny 2 accounts can be associated with each other and associated with Leone.
- Leone’s Inkcel Twitter account hosts evidence of harassment threats, fraudulent emblem sales activities, and fraudulent activity from known Destiny 2 accounts.
- The Telegram account is associated with both Leone’s fraudulent emblem and the clan name sales activity at OG Users and his real name.
After making what looks like a comprehensive proceeding against Leone, a bungee lawyer prepares a large gun. The studio is really chasing this guy. Cheating is one thing, but not desirable, but threatening Bungie staff is a whole different level of seriousness.
Bungy is seeking a jury trial in this case. The studio wants $ 150,000 in damages for each count of copyright infringement. This, in my interpretation of the proceedings, is related to various accounts in Leone that violate the user contract. That’s 13 counts, or $ 1.95 million. In addition, it requires a laundry list of damages, including punitive damages, interest on all pre-arbitration and post-judgment damages, and of course Leone will land at that cost and attorney’s fees.
Bungy, in addition to money, preliminarily and permanently prohibits Leone from making unwanted or unilateral contact with Bungee, its employees, or Destiny 2 players in any other way, such as harassing, stalking, or otherwise. I want to do it.
There is definitely a fandom element, I don’t know where the line is, and I often go over it. It is worth noting that this proceeding is taking place when developers are frequently faced with harassment and threats from game players. For example, what is clear from this proceeding is that Leone has an unhealthy interest in bungee and its games. He does this while buying bungee merchandise.
We will monitor this incident and report on further progress. Sony’s studios chasing individuals will never look particularly enlightening, but in some cases it seems that individuals have brought it to themselves.
