{"id":615516,"date":"2024-10-10T10:57:39","date_gmt":"2024-10-10T15:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jbsgame.com\/?p=615516"},"modified":"2024-10-10T10:57:47","modified_gmt":"2024-10-10T15:57:47","slug":"someones-suing-bungie-for-allegedly-stealing-destiny-2-red-war-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jbsgame.com\/someones-suing-bungie-for-allegedly-stealing-destiny-2-red-war-ideas\/","title":{"rendered":"Someone’s suing Bungie for allegedly stealing Destiny 2: Red War ideas"},"content":{"rendered":"

As Destiny 2: Episode 2 – Revenant<\/em>‘s Act 1 unfolds with questionable gusto<\/a>, it seems that game content problems aren’t the only issue Bungie is currently facing. Notably, there’s a new lawsuit cooking, alleging that Bungie’s writers had stolen the concept of Year 1’s (now sunset) Red War campaign.<\/p>

Specifically, the word of the lawsuit was first brought to light by The Game Post’s Zuhaad Ali<\/a>. The legal dispute was filed earlier this month by author Kelsey Martineau in Louisiana, alleging that many of the concepts and characters from Red War were “directly” taken from one of their science-fiction short stories. The lawsuit states that “The creators of Destiny 2 did not independently create their version of the Red Legion but instead of have wrongfully copied Martineau\u2019s original creation,” and though Bungie is yet to respond to the allegations, it will have to, at some point.<\/p>

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Destiny 2’s latest lawsuit is all about the sunset Red War campaign<\/h2>

The claim, which is available for reading via Scribd.com<\/a>, comes with a whole slew of alleged similarities between Martineau’s fiction and Destiny 2<\/em>‘s Red War<\/a>. Before going deeper into this, I’d like to use this opportunity to highlight the fact that almost all the key elements that appeared in Year 1 of Destiny 2<\/em> had been fairly well established in the years prior. After all, Destiny 2<\/em> is a sequel<\/em>, and Bungie cooked up Cabal lore a fair few years prior to the release of even the first Destiny <\/em>title.<\/p>

With that in mind, here are just a few highlights from Martineau’s library of allegations:<\/p>