Bungie’s management says they didn’t know that it occurred, and I imagine them. In an enormous studio like Bungie, there are actually a whole lot of builders creating and modifying belongings dozens of occasions every day. There isn’t a means for any human to audit each single asset checked in to the depot towards the sum complete of the web, particularly after we’re attempting to maintain issues underneath wraps earlier than the sport is able to be introduced. Sport devs don’t have the type of software program instruments that Youtube does to police for dangerous actors importing copyrighted materials.
When particular person actors do that, they don’t inform their bosses that they’ve stolen different peoples’ work. They cover it and cross the work off as their very own and hope no one notices. This habits is rarely condoned or inspired by management as a result of it causes nothing however an enormous mess for everybody concerned if it will get came upon. The larger the group, the extra seemingly anyone will discover this sort of factor. Nevertheless, it isn’t 100% for a similar purpose that gamers discover bugs that QA missed – when a sport goes public, there’s typically a number of orders of magnitude extra eyes it than internally. Extra eyeballs trying imply that it’s extra seemingly that stolen belongings get came upon.
After such issues occur, the studio’s authorized illustration invariably does attain out to the legally injured social gathering (on this case Antireal) with a settlement supply. Such provides often embrace a non-disclosure settlement and a non-disparagement clause in alternate for cost and both a license for the artwork or removing of all offending belongings from the sport. That’s seemingly what’s going on proper now between Bungie and Antireal.
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