Suing abusers and cheaters is 'good business,' Bungie says

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Bungie explains why it's aggressively pursuing cheaters and abusers.

in July against a player it alleges has a long history of cheating, creating alt accounts to evade bans, and threatening studio employees. We noted at the time that Bungie has taken"an increasingly aggressive approach" to troublemakers in recent years, and general counsel Don McGowan recently told"We have seen historically that bad actors will often be tolerated because the people with the skills and power to remove them do not focus their efforts there," McGowan said.

The discourse on social media can be rough for any developer, but Bungie faces particularly high levels of heat for its work on Destiny 2. Developers are almost constantly making adjustments to the long-running live service game to accommodate both its age and its complexity; sometimes there areand sometimes people are just unhappy that the meta has changed in some way that affects their favorite build, and either can lead to torrents of abuse.

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Anyone making death threats to anyone online should have their anonymous status removed and the full extent of the law laid on them.

Ah yes using destiny 2 as cover kinda obvious

Nice stuff

We ourself are responsible for building up such communities

Fix the game first

Suing cheaters? Just ban them haha

I mean, League of Legends is thriving and that game is 95% toxic people, has been for years.

That's where you are wrong bungie

Paying attention, Wargaming? Thought not.

Trash company

'Money is good' Bungie showing their greed again

I dunno. I think suing for violent irl threats seems more like common sense to me

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