Bungie hasn’t been shy about deleting older content material from Destiny 2 (a course of it calls “vaulting”) with a view to make room for brand spanking new stuff, however it seems this controversial observe had some unintended penalties. As a part of a lawsuit filed in opposition to them, Bungie needed to cite fan movies from YouTube, as a result of the content material in query is not a part of the sport.
Per Game File, a sci-fi author named Matthew Kelsey Martineau filed a lawsuit in opposition to Bungie final yr, alleging that an enemy faction known as the Pink Legion was plagiarized from the creator’s WordPress writing. In its response, Bungie dismissed the claims as baseless, however the firm’s counsel was compelled to quote fan YouTube compilations of cutscenes and gameplay from the vaulted unique marketing campaign of Destiny 2 with a view to make their case. Whereas the writer would usually have the ability to merely submit a replica of the sport as an exhibit, that is not doable right here for apparent causes.
“Because (1) Destiny 2’s narrative is barely obtainable to gamers within the type of a live-service online game that has modified considerably over time, and (2) bodily copies of Destiny 2, and any 2017 model of Destiny 2, are not obtainable, the hooked up movies are the absolute best approach for the Court docket to evaluation the accused work,” reads the reason given to the Court docket partly. In lieu of this, Bungie linked two movies, together with a ten hour “complete story of Destiny” compilation from YouTuber My Identify is Byf.
It has been a while since Bungie final vaulted content material, though it has progressively reintroduced sure key content material, together with raids, that had been rendered unplayable for an prolonged time period.
There’s nonetheless no phrase on the end result of the lawsuit.