Bungie files $12 million lawsuit against Destiny 2 cheat seller

Bungie is quoting $2,000 for each of the 5,848 cheats sold by Veteran Cheats, for a total of $11,696,000. The studio claims that Veteran Cheats's Stripe account had a total of 5,484 different transactions for a "Destiny 2 Cheat or a premium cheat product containing Destiny 2 as an option," which explains how it came by that number. Furthermore, Bungie is claiming the sum of $146,662.28 for copyright infringement, as well as $217,250.70 in attorney fees.

In the motion document by the company's Deputy General Counsel James Barker, Bungie says it spent over $2 million on cheat mitigation efforts alone since November 2020 with the money going towards the establishment of internal cheat detection efforts as well as different external anti-cheat software, including BattlEye.

Here's what Bungie had to say about the turnout of the lawsuit:

Around September 2021, shortly after this lawsuit was filed and after Destiny 2 began to employ 'BattlEye' anti-cheat software in addition to Bungie's in-house tools, we observed a rapid and several-fold increase in the advertised price of tracked boosting services. This correlation strongly suggests that cheat software is a practical necessity for that parasitic industry to function efficiently. We have no data to suggest that players using boosting services are informed when a booster plans to use cheat software and thereby imperil their account.

Bungie's dedication to Destiny 2 will see it release the new Lightfall expansion on February 28. The expansion will introduce a new Guardian subclass branded the Strand, a new location called Neomuna, and numerous weapons and armor to boost gamers' experience. However, there is no indication as to whether the company will develop a threequel. But, it is working with Sony on several unannounced titles as well as a mobile spinoff with NetEase. Finally, Destiny 2: Beyond Light is part of this month's PS Plus lineup.