Bungie sues Destiny 2 streamer after they threaten to \u201cburn down\u201d studio BungieBungie is taking drastic action against Destiny 2 streamer Luca \u2018Miffsyworld\u2019 Leone, suing the content creator for repeatedly cheating, selling emblems, and biggest of all, threatening to burn down their studio. Toxicity and poor behavior is not anything new in the realm of video games. Developer threats, harassment, and verbal abuse have become normalized in a negative sense in today\u2019s culture of toxicity. However, Bungie is putting its foot down by suing a Destiny 2 streamer that harassed developers and threatened to \u201cburn down\u201d the company\u2019s offices. Miffsyworld, real name Luca Leone, created a total of thirteen different accounts to avoid cheating bans in-game, as well as selling emblems. Emblems are a form of collectible that players can use to personalize their profile in Destiny 2. In tweets revealed in court documents, the streamer also stated plans to burn down Bungie\u2019s Washington-based office and target employees with violence and harassment. \u201cI just realized I\u2019ll be moving to a place that\u2019s 30 minutes away from dmg [Dylan Gafner, a Senior Community Manager at Bungie].\u201d He follows this up with another tweet saying \u201che is not safe\u201d. After they completed the move, Miffsyworld continued his very public threats on Twitter. In one tweet, they negotiated arson on an undisclosed location, then stating that they\u2019d provide a discount if it was the Bungie Headquarters. Outside of threats to the workers\u2019 lives, Miffsyworld mocked the developers \u2014 mentioning employees by name and tagging Bungie while boasting about his blatant cheating: \u201c7 bans in and still going strong @Bungie. Battleye is sh*t took me 30 seconds to get around your silly hardware ban.\u201d The situation became so elevated Dylan \u2018dmg04\u2018 Gafner, the aforementioned Community Manager at Bungie, released a public statement regarding the treatment of the developers. While it didn\u2019t name Miffysworld by name, the timing of the lawsuit and Gafner\u2019s statement is very close. Miffysworld is being sued for breaching Destiny 2\u2019s Terms of Service and the contract associated with it, fraud, copyright infringement, and circumvention of technological measures (anti-cheat workarounds). Bungie wants $150,000 for each instance of copyright infringement, as well as $2,500 in damages per cheating case. They have also asked the Court to legally block Leone from \u201charassing, stalking, or otherwise engaging\u201d with Bungie staff. Leone is yet to reply to the lawsuit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Bungie sues Destiny 2 streamer after they threaten to \u201cburn down\u201d studio BungieBungie is taking drastic action against Destiny 2 streamer Luca \u2018Miffsyworld\u2019 Leone, suing the content creator for repeatedly cheating, selling emblems, and biggest of all, threatening to burn down their studio. Toxicity and poor behavior is not anything new in the realm of […]<\/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-39834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39834","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=39834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}