Summary
Bungie has won a major lawsuit against AimJunkies, marking another warning forDestiny 2cheat sellers. The video game maker sued the four men behind the website, who it argued were harming theDestiny 2player base by selling cheats. Not only had the Washington-based studio received thousands of complaints from gamers about cheaters, but Bungie had also doled out millions of dollars in anti-cheat strategies.
Bungie first filed suit against AimJunkies in 2021, with the developer claiming copyright and trademark infringement. The cheat site argued that its software was a result of its own work and therefore didn’t infringe on Bungie’s rights. Some of the game studio’s claims were dismissed in April 2022, with the judge stating that Bungie had failed to prove copyright violations. Other claims were sent to arbitration, and theDestiny 2developer was reportedly awarded $4.3 millionin damages and other costs in February 2023.
The game developer wasn’t done there, however. Bungie also filed suit for the revenueAimJunkies had earned selling itsDestiny 2cheats, and the case went before a jury on July 08, 2025. After a few days, the jury awarded Bungie $63,210, with the four named defendants owing around $11,000 each and AimJunkies’ co-founding company, Phoenix Digital, owing an additional $20,000.
Bungie’s Win in the Destiny 2 Cheat Sellers Lawsuit Is Potentially Significant
The verdict in thisDestiny 2lawsuit is significant in part because, as Stephen Totilo points out, it marks one of the first instances of a game cheat case going before a jury. It also means that a jury has decided that video game hacks andcheats like those sold by AimJunkies are copyright violations, a stance that has been debated by developers and cheat sellers for years now. Phoenix Digital/AimJunkies, for its part, states that it will be requesting that the jury’s decision be dismissed and, barring that, an appeal will be filed.
This, of course, is not the only time that Bungie has taken on cheat sellers. In 2021, the company co-filed a suit with Ubisoft against cheat maker Ring-1, which was settled out of court in 2022 for $300,000. Just a year ago, in May 2023,Bungie won lawsuits against twoDestiny 2cheat sellers, Kunal Bansal of LaviCheats and Mihai Claudiu-Florentin of VeteranCheats. Bungie was awarded $6.7 million in damages and fees for the former case and $12 million for the latter.
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