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Bungie responded within hours. Though it did not publicly apologize, it said it had now launched an investigation, attributing the "issue" to a former Bungie artist, and reached out to the artist concerned.
"We immediately investigated a concern regarding unauthorized use of artist decals in Marathon and confirmed that a former Bungie artist included these in a texture sheet that was ultimately used in-game," the team said in a statement. "This issue was unknown by our existing art team, and we are still reviewing how this oversight occurred.
"We take matters like this very seriously. We have reached out to [the artist] to discuss this issue and are committed to do right by the artist. As a matter of policy, we do not use the work of artists without their permission.
"To prevent similar issues in the future, we are conducting a thorough review of our in-game assets, specifically those done by the former Bungie artist, and implementing stricter checks to document all artist contributions. We value the creativity and dedication of all artists who contribute to our games, and we are committed to doing right by them. Thank you for bringing this to our attention."
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“As a matter of policy, we do not use the work of artists without their permission”
Pffffffffffffffffffffffffffffft
I’m glad the artist won in the end. Bungie acting like people are even remotely interested in Marathon is funny.
>”To prevent similar issues in the future, we are conducting a thorough review of our in-game assets, specifically those done by the former Bungie artist, and implementing stricter checks to document all artist contributions. We value the creativity and dedication of all artists who contribute to our games, and we are committed to doing right by them. Thank you for bringing this to our attention.”
And why did you not do it the last 4-5 times you used stolen art in your games?
Testing the waters.
Ah, the old chucking a former employee under the bus tactic.
> “a former Bungie artist”
isn’t this is a way to say “all of his/her actions are now not related to Bungie”?
i don’t expect much from a company that removes your paid contents with no warning and tried to compensate by bringing it back when people already quit, but lmao that is low.
Basically some charlatan probably worked from home for the last 5 years doing no work and uploaded someone elses portfolio
The charlatan spent the last 5 years drinking coffee in their local organic cafe, working out when bosses thought they were at their desktop, and getting paid 100k to do it
If you strip out the artists decals you strip out the entire vibe of the decor
Marathon should be cancelled
Everyone talks about Ubisoft, but woof, Bungie is actually the most disgraceful downfall.
Dave did it. Blame Dave
Wow, these guys are such dickheads😭
Bro. It was the whole visual identity.
This statement makes them look like they’re not taking this seriously at all. But it’s not their first time, so I guess this is par for the course to them.
This is not a single dev problem, specially as similar things have happened with destiny, the company does not do proper plagiarism checks wich the art department should do from time to time.
“We take matters like this very seriously” obviously not or it wouldn’t of happened 4 times.
The one thing people actually liked about this game and it’s heavy taken from another artist. Great.
Off to a very Bungie start
Is this to dodge the ongoing court case and potentially exposing the while *vaulting content* as theft of paid content?
(Bungie couldnt produce functional Red War content for the Judge because it no longer works in the current D2 engine)
They steal art and they can’t even make the game look decent.
How far can they fall ?