Bungie levels multimillion lawsuit against cheating pest who taunted and threatened 'keep your doors locked'

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Bungie's general counsel certainly keeps busy, and recent years has seen the studio take an increasingly aggressive approach towards would-be cheaters, hackers, and malicious jerks. It's perhaps no surprise that a studio which is one of the pioneers of a truly live service approach to game development should also take point on dealing with some of the inevitable problems around bad actors, and this particular target is a doozy.

A lawsuit filed in Seattle district court sees Bungie taking aim at one Luca Leone, who the Destiny 2 developer alleges of creating multiple accounts to evade bans, livestreaming himself cheating, and threatening the developers' employees.

The suit alleges that Leone streamed himself on the Twitch channel «miffysworld». On December 6, 2021, Leone created an account for which he used the display name "!", which would be banned on May 22, 2022 after he streamed his use of cheating software. But Leone had come prepared and had preemptively created a second account called «GOT 2 GET IT».

The suit then details a chain of events with Leone creating new accounts as quickly as Bungie could ban them: the studio was clearly following his actions closely. The names of these accounts included «TRAP$TAR MIFFY», «ugl1kgwj4kn7emj,» «why,» and «gerogetwo.» One of the sequences of names provides insight into Leone's mindset at the time: «Bungie» was banned, and replaced by «bungiemad,» which was banned, and replaced by «hahahalolxd,» which was banned.

There are various other accounts, and the suit claims Leone created others which Bungie did not identify and ban. The suit in fact details how Leone boasted about Bungie not being smart enough to stop him: «my point is more bungie will NEVER be able to stop me if i