Bungie warns Destiny 2 cheat makers: Your days of operating 'without fear of consequences are over'
Bungie has in recent years been very aggressive in its pursuit of Destiny 2 cheat makers, and not at all shy about saying so. Based on the opening line of its most recent legal action (via Torrentfreak), filed against the makers and sellers of the Ring-1 cheat, it has no intention of stopping anytime soon.
The action actually began in May 2021, when Bungie joined up with Ubisoft to file a joint lawsuit against Ring-1. The two companies reached a settlement with three of the four named defendants in the case in late 2022, but the fourth failed to respond to the suit, and so Bungie and Ubisoft requested a default judgment of $2.2 million.
The judge in the case rejected that request, however, ruling that the fourth defendant was «not an original developer of the software or an original participant in the Ring-1 enterprise,» but instead appeared to be «akin to a customer service representative.» That decision meant the defendant wouldn't have to pay anything. Worse, the Ring-1 website remained online.
The new lawsuit, filed on August 1, names 10 other defendants (most of them by alias) along with 40 «John Does,» and it begins with a bang: «The days of Destiny 2 cheaters being free to engage in a wholesale assault on the Destiny 2 game and its community without fear of consequences are over.»
This suit leans heavily into Bungie's previous prior wins over cheat makers, noting that they specifically targeted «the corporate entities and individuals who profit from making, selling, supporting, and otherwise proliferating malicious cheat software.» The rulings in those lawsuits «have repeatedly confirmed that the sale and use of cheat software violates a raft of federal and state laws, breaches users’ contracts with Bungie (the
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