Last October a science fiction creator, Matthew Kelsey Martineau, launched a lawsuit towards Bungie centered on a Destiny 2 enemy faction, the Red Legion, which Martineau alleges relies on work from his WordPress weblog (Thanks, GameFile). Naturally one thing on the dimensions of Destiny 2 faces all kinds of speculative lawsuits, and this did not appear one thing that ought to’ve unduly troubled Bungie’s legal professionals: Except for the truth that the content material in query now not exists within the recreation.
Bungie’s response to the swimsuit was filed in December, and airily dismisses all of Martineau’s claims, however the attention-grabbing facet is that these claims relate to the unique Destiny 2 marketing campaign, which is a few struggle towards the Red Legion. This marketing campaign was subsequently “vaulted”, Bungie’s most well-liked time period for eradicating content material from the sport, and is now unavailable to play.
So the legal professionals needed to depend on the sport’s personal followers as a way to show their factors concerning the content material in query to the court docket. Bungie’s response to the Martineau lawsuit explains that the studio cannot submit a replica of the sport to the court docket as a way to present the Red Legion storyline as a result of:
“(1) Destiny 2’s narrative is just obtainable to gamers within the type of a live-service online game that has modified considerably over time, and (2) bodily copies of Destiny 2, and any 2017 model of Destiny 2, are now not obtainable, the hooked up movies are the absolute best manner for the Court to overview the accused work.”
Bungie’s legal professionals then, with all of the chutzpah on this planet, submitted a ten hour lore video by YouTuber MynameisByf, titled “The Complete Story of Destiny! From Origins to Final Shape! Light & Dark Saga Lore & Timeline.” One can solely think about the choose’s delight. This was Exhibit B, and accompanied by Exhibit C from YouTuber DestinL, which is the extra easy “Destiny 2: The Red War All Cutscenes (Season 1)”.
Bungie mentioned it will cease vaulting Destiny 2 content material in 2022 however, regardless of restoring some key parts together with raids, didn’t restore every thing it had beforehand dealt with like this. Amusing as it’s that Bungie now has to depend on content material that is been correctly archived by followers, this can be a good illustration of the regulation of unintended penalties, and will definitely be making different reside service firms sit up and listen: Whatever euphemism they could select to use to it, making older content material inaccessible in-game can come again to chew them within the Red Legion.
