Comment on Marathon is delayed
nfreak@lemmy.ml 3 days agoI’m actually almost surprised they didn’t just pull it entirely after this. It’s not like it’s just one or two assets, the entire goddamn art style ripped off that artist.
Comment on Marathon is delayed
nfreak@lemmy.ml 3 days agoI’m actually almost surprised they didn’t just pull it entirely after this. It’s not like it’s just one or two assets, the entire goddamn art style ripped off that artist.
Goodeye8@piefed.social 3 days ago
to somewhat defend Bungie, you can't own an art style. The person whose work Bungie ripped off has a case for the specific assets that are clearly her (I think the artist was a woman?) work. However assets that are inspired by her work but aren't exactly her work is completely fair.
But that actually makes Bungies situation even worse because they don't even know how many artists they might've ripped off. Could be just this one, could be five, could be a dozen. They don't know. IMO serves them right because they clearly don't learn from their mistakes.
nfreak@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
Oh for sure, I get that. It’s not exactly something you can copyright. But when the entire art style heavily leverages stolen assets, that’s not a good look - I imagine they’re stuck redoing nearly everything from scratch just so they can be sure to remove anything that was stolen.
I have zero faith in anything Bungie does though until Pete Parsons bites the curb and the studio becomes developer-owned though so I’m sure something will slip through the cracks