Ubisoft and Bungie Merciless to Cheatmakers; Demand Over $2M in Compensation
Bungie and Ubisoft have joined forces against cheaters. In a lawsuit, they are demanding more than $2 million from a group making money from cheats for Destiny 2 and Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Siege.
Bungie and Ubisoft's lawsuit against cheat-making group Ring-1 has entered a new phase.
- Lawyers representing the two companies have petitioned the court to award their clients $2.3 million in damages and an additional $120,000 in litigation costs.
- The companies want the court to award these sums without a trial in case the defendant party fails to appear at the hearing.
- The lawsuit included interesting information regarding the scale of the problem. Bungie claims that it banned 2295 accounts using Ring-1's cheats in Destiny 2. The studio stresses that not all cheaters can be detected and estimates that at least 4,000 players are actually using the group's software.
- Ubisoft, on the other hand, has banned 1,823 cheaters using Ring-1's applications in Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Siege. The company believes that this is only a small fraction of all players using these cheats.
- Such numbers may not seem high, but it should be remembered that Ring-1's cheats are paid products. In the case of Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Siege one has to pay $50 per month, and those wishing to cheat with these programs in Destiny 2 must expect to spend as much as $120 per month.
It is worth mentioning that Bungie in particular has been very active recently in the fight against cheats. Some time ago, the studio sued the cheat-making company Elite Boss Tech - this case ended in a settlement, in which the studio will receive $13.5 million in damages. The team also brought a lawsuit against streamer named Luca Leone, who allegedly cheated when playing Destiny 2 and threatend company employees.
