Bungie has been fighting cheat developers since some time, and it is not a quiet battle at all. They are intending to make their stance known by all who ruin their games with their cheat softwares. One of the lawsuits by Bungie went a bit strange though.
Bungie filed a complaint back in 2021 in a federal court in Seattle. The complaint targeted AimJunkies and Phoenix Digital due to allegations of creating cheat software, copyright and trademark infringement. Early in 2022, US judge actually concluded that the original complaint did not provide sufficient evidence. This is followed by Bungie providing additional evidence, presenting an amended complaint with further details about people involved. One of the people was James May, claimed to be a third-party cheat developer.
After the specific evidences provided, AimJunkies countersued Bungie due to illegal access to certain documents in May’s computer in order to find supporting evidence for its own lawsuit against them. The thing is, Bungie currently reserves the right to access players’ computers for anti-cheat purposes but the older Limited Software License Agreement signed by May in 2019 did not actually allow it. The agreement was also provided by Bungie in the court too, so this does not look good for Bungie at all.
Due to these claims, James May and Phoenix Digital are seeking damages. While Bungie may be doing the right thing as “fighting the cheaters”, the latest one will need more work to correctly reveal and identify what happened.
