Haunted Looks Art Director Livestreams Sorry for the Marathon theft scandal, but chat is merciless: "Would write an original comment, but I don't see good ones to plagarize them"

Last week, Bungie was accused of using the designs of an independent artist anti -real without her knowledge or permission. It is a fairly cut -out case: elements of marathons environmental arts undoubtedly copy iconography from posters that were designed by Antreag in 2017. It did not help that part of the game team also follows their accounts on social media.

Bungie made an explanation in which he recognized the “unauthorized use” and blamed the situation to a former employee:

“We immediately examined the concern about the unauthorized use of artist decay images in marathon and confirms that a former bungie artist has included them in a texture sheet that was ultimately used in the game.

“This topic was unknown to our existing art team, and we are still checking how this has taken place. We take such matters very seriously. We have inspired ourselves [Antireal] To discuss this topic and to make yourself right. “

The Mea Culpa was followed by a livestream last Friday, in which game director Joe Ziegler and Art Director Joseph Cross addressed the controversy directly, starting with another prepared apology from Cross before the two questions asked. I will say in advance that this is uncomfortable in places: the cross is significantly exhausted and looks unhappy. Regardless of how this accusation of plagiarism has an impact and how anti -real is compensated for, it is obvious that these events have significantly demanded bungies employees.

The chat is largely not aware of this and some spectators go directly to the carotill. Marathon's slogan is “Escape will make me God”, who co -opted during the stream and in the Meme “Plagiat will make me God”, which has been repeated continuously, with small variants.

Cross somehow manages to survive an hour of it and answers some of the most famous public questions. One of them is about how exactly bungie will compensate for anti -reals and why it scrubbed all the assets in question instead of busy the artist who made it.

“For what it is worth, we are confident that most assets in this capacity are original and have been created internally by our internal artists,” says Cross. “We would like to work with anti -Real if this is an opportunity to be: this is part of what we have to communicate somehow.”

This is one of the elements of the plagiarism scandal that is out of control. Bungie has definitely integrated some of anti -real iconography, and his feet should be kept at the fire. But this has now transformed into a reasonless accusation of some that the entire art style of marathon is plagued by this artist.

“At this point it is a very small sentence of assets,” says Cross. “The decals themselves are the kind of details that are placed on the sides of buildings or boxes or something so that we absolutely have to replace them, and we would rule in any kind of way to do this, including contract, cooperation or work with the artist.”

“Something slipped through our network,” added Ziegler. “So we have to go back and look at everything to ensure that nothing else has slipped through our network if that makes sense. Because it surprised us and we want to make sure that we do the right hard work to ensure that it does not happen again: one way or another, we will scrub all assets just because we want to make sure that we don't miss anything else.”

Whatever else can be said about bungie and how these assets have found their way into the marathon, at least it holds up the hands. But there is not much sympathy for the studio: Probably because this is the fourth time, this happened in four years: Last year Fan Art was used in the design of a Destiny 2 nerf weapon. In 2023, a works of art in the game Destiny showed works by another artist. In 2021, Bungie admitted that Fanart from Xivu Arath was “accidentally used” in a trailer for the witch queen.

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The YouTube comments under the livestream are irreconcilable. “You know, it is meaningful that you used Percy Shelley's Ozymandias in your film, a poem that spoke about the case that once spoke great rich, which has lost until the sand of the time,” says Suncitybel. Other examples are: “I would write an original comment, but I don't see any good ones to plagarize” and “Art Exportation Shooter genre”.

There is inevitably much more of it in the game of the game, but also a little more empathy for the situation:

“I think it's a good excuse,” says Marikal. “You people look like this guy was a bad mastermind who deliberately steals things. What had happened was an contractor who worked under him and stole 2020 things, and it slipped past him. Yes, it is in his responsibility, and therefore he tries to do it right and repair it, but it's not like he wanted it.”

This incident took place at a time when it feels for some reason that the community feelings in the context of the marathon have been poorly committed. Despite a fantastic start-up trailer and generally positive answers from those who have played it, they don't have to go far to talk to people about how “the game” is the game / studio, and confidently predict that it will fail, and compare with another Sony-published live service shooter: the disaster that matches.

Bungie was to do with marathon anyway: a plagiarism scandal in the runup to released was the last thing it needed, what it needed. A new report claims that morality in the studio is “free fall”. Seniors like Cross have to wear the can, and that is their job. But for the studio and the game will, this situation requires a mutual solution and a line that was drawn underneath yesterday.

Haunted Looks Art Director Livestreams Sorry for the Marathon theft scandal, but chat is merciless: “Would write an original comment, but I don't see good ones to plagarize them”

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