BUNGIE apologizes for the stolen artworks in “Marathon”

The Bungie game developer hit a storm with the next extract of extraction, Marathon. The game restricted in September and Creator She was fires from the art that was originally created by the Antireal and musician artist without credit.

Thursday, Antireal High The last alpha Playtest test of the game and noticed its environments “covered with the assets that were raised from the designs of the stickers that I did in 2017.” To prove her point of view, she compared many drawings inside Marathon She looks similar, and a graphical paper from the game group for the game contradicts more of her work for 2017. She is also male It was followed by many Bungie employees – including Joseph Kroos, the coach of the game – on social media for years and “she had no contact with her.”

Marathon Alpha was recently released and its environments are covered with the assets that were raised from the designs of the stickers that I did in 2017.Bungie Josephaacross pic.twitter.com/0CSBO48jgb

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She wrote: “Of course, Bungie is not required to employ me when making a game that is derived with an overwhelming majority of the same design language that I improved during the past decade,” but it is clear that my work was good enough to loot ideas and plaster throughout their game or its chain of transmission. “

Thursday night, after “immediate investigation”, Bunji I mentioned that a former artist included the work of Antireal “in a texture sheet that was ultimately used in the game. This problem was not known by our current art team, and we are still reviewing how this censorship happened. We contacted Antireal to discuss this issue and commit to the artist correctly.”

during Friday Livestreamand Cross explained that the former employee put the art of Antireal “without permission or acknowledgment” in a driver paper that was examined in 2020. Then he issued an apology to Antireal, saying that “there is no excuse for this supervision.

#MARATHON The coach, Joseph Kroos, admits the designs stolen by the artist Antiireal

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like ribbed Notes, Bungie previously showed fire in recent years to use an artwork without credit or appropriate permission marketing and Cutscenes to Fate 2, In addition to a Nerf rifle. The studio later obtained permission from these relevant artists and at least one of them compensated. to Marathon, Cross said that he is a more comprehensive review of the assets within the game on a wider scale, and from the former artist whose name was not in particular. Any art discovered will be removed from “inappropriate or inappropriate sources” from building alpha and re -establishing it at home.

At the time of writing this report, Marathon It is still expected to be released on September 23 for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X | S and PC.

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