Bungie apologizes for failing to compensate copied Destiny 2 art for over a year BungieA Destiny 2 fan whose work wound up being used in-game still hasn\u2019t been compensated, despite Bungie promising to make good on the snafu over a year ago. In 2023, X\/Twitter user Julian Faylona claimed that the studio \u201ctook inspiration\u201d from their fan art for a lore-heavy cutscene involving Destiny\u2019s big bad, The Witness. \u201cCertainly took me by surprise when I watched the cutscene,\u201d they said at the time. Following the post, Bungie acknowledged the obvious similarities, attributing the oversight to \u201can external vendor\u201d who \u201cmistakenly\u201d used Faylona\u2019s original under the assumption that it was \u201cofficial Bungie art.\u201d \u201cWe have reached out to the artist to apologize for the mix-up and to credit and compensate them for their awesome work,\u201d the developer continued. Over a year later, Faylona stated they were \u201cstill waiting for that compensation\u201d and hadn\u2019t \u201cheard a word since.\u201d Cozmo, Bungie\u2019s principal community manager, subsequently reached out following Faylona\u2019s update to apologize again. \u201cHey sorry this got missed, I shot you an email. Hit me back there or DM here and we will track this down for you,\u201d he replied. Coincidentally, the above comes just days after claims made by another individual that art they had created based on Destiny 2\u2019s Ace of Spades Exotic hand cannon had been lifted for an official NERF gun design. \u201cWe are currently investigating internally and with our partner,\u201d Bungie said on September 11, subsequently adding on September 13 that it was \u201ccurrently in contact with the artist\u201d to ensure they were compensated and credited for their \u201cincredible artwork.\u201d No further details were provided. The third installment of Destiny 2\u2019s Episode: Echoes went live on August 27, adding a new Exotic mission and loot to earn. Following the addition of two more Episodes, Revenant and Heresy, Bungie intends to shake up how it approaches content with Frontiers in the latter half of 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Bungie apologizes for failing to compensate copied Destiny 2 art for over a year BungieA Destiny 2 fan whose work wound up being used in-game still hasn\u2019t been compensated, despite Bungie promising to make good on the snafu over a year ago. In 2023, X\/Twitter user Julian Faylona claimed that the studio \u201ctook inspiration\u201d from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}