Bungie also fights ardently against cheaters who plague its games. If the studio has already won a few victories, another lawsuit, opposing it to the seller of AimJunkie, gives it a hard time. To help it in its defense, the firm therefore asked PayPal to provide it with the personal information of people who purchased the software.
Playing online games often amounts to agreeing to face cheaters. Today there is cheat software for just about every multiplayer title, making some of them completely plagued by the phenomenon. From Call of Duty to Pokémon Go, cheaters number in the millionsoften leaving developers with no real solution to get rid of them.
Also, the lawsuits are also counted in spades. In any case, this is the solution chosen by Bungie, the studio behind the two Destinies. Sometimes the method proves effective: a few months ago, cheat software vendor Elite Boss Tech resigned itself to paying a fine of $13.5 million. But other times the process is slightly more complicated.
Bungie wants to recover the personal data of its players to fight against cheating
Since last summer, a lawsuit therefore opposes Bungie to Aimjunkies, a reputable seller of cheat software. However, the latter does not intend to let it go as easily as its predecessor. According to Aimjunkies, cheating is simply not against the law, while its software does not infringe any copyright rules. Unfortunately for the studio recently acquired by Sony, justice seems to be leaning towards the software vendor for the moment.
Nevertheless, Bungie has not said its last word. The studio has indeed taken a card for the least unexpected out of his pocket: PayPal. Indeed, he asked the online payment service to provide customer information having purchased software from Aimjunkies with its platform. Among this information, we find in particular the name, the e-mail addresses and the telephone numbers of the persons concerned.
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Bungie says this data will help it win its lawsuit. But for his opponent, this approach goes much too far. This week, Aimjunkies asked the court to limit this operation, arguing that the documents contain personal information that has nothing to do with the ongoing trialthereby jeopardizing the privacy of those concerned.
Source: Torrent Freak