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8/25/2020 2:58:40 PM
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So who’s jumping in on that Class Action Lawsuit?!
After I made the satirical post joking about it’s time to start a Class Action, but I didn’t think it would have any substance since it was a joke. I then received around 10 messages saying how it is actually possible to win that lawsuit since a large portion of the community paid for everything well before it became F2P and were never reimbursed since they are announcing they are taking the PAID FOR content away.
I’ve now seen multiple review articles talking about how they hope it doesn’t go that far, but they could actually see this happening. Bungie as a company has the right to shut down servers of a game and stop supporting it, keeping the game running but taking away paid for content without any sort of reimbursement apparently has the potential to be described as grand larceny since if 1 person paid for all the content it cost them around $120 and grand larceny is $500 or more. Obviously more then 5 people paid for all the content so that has already been surpassed.
If this was old Bungie I would say “No they don’t deserve this and we all just need to accept they made mistakes”, but this isn’t old Bungie; This is present day Bungie that stole 50,000+ Brightdust over 2 solstice events for useless glows and never touched on why we haven’t been reimbursed for that. This is new Bungie that many former employees say on Glassdoor “Company that offers good benefits and fun employees, but has now pushed too much of a focus to MTX and games as a service, and less on community feedback innovation”.
So I do think the lawsuit may be inevitable and I honestly don’t care if Bungie gets taken to the cleaners.
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68 RepliesAny such attempt at a lawsuit would be quickly dismissed. Assuming (the unlikely event) that a lawyer was even willing to take it on, and file it. Reason: What Bungie is doing is WELL within their legal rights, and established intellectual property rights law. What so many gamers don't either understand, or arne't willing to accept is that UNLESS BUNGIE (OR ANY OTHER DEVELOPER) SPECIFICALLY TELLS YOU THAT THEY ARE SELLING YOU THE RIGHTS TO THE GAME? You don't own ANY of it. Therefore have no basis for any claim regarding what's done with it. To further seal the fate of any such lawsuit. Anyone who is actually playing the game right now, has already signed a CONTRACT (EULA/SL) stating that you agree that you are buying a LICENSE to the play the game, and do not own part of the game. That you agree that Bungie reserves the right to decide WHAT the game is, and are free to change it without your prior consent. So the law is on Bungie's side. The contract---and the terms you agreed to---are on their side. So any attempt to sue Bungie over this goes into the "frivolous suit" category, and would be quickly dismissed by any self-respecting civil court judge.....and the attorney who filed it would likely get admonished by the judge for wasting the courts time.
