It is not the first time that Bungie has been at the center of a controversy linked to the embezzlement of creative works, and this time it is up to the next Marathon coming. A pattern that appears too regular to be liquidated as a simple coincidence or isolated error, rather suggesting systemic problems in the processes of acquisition and verification of creative assets. Publicly reported that happened on X, documenting with evident bitterness how the game is “full of assets taken by the posters that I made in 2017”. Designer of large companies that plunder and parasitic my projects while I struggle to earn to live. »\ r \ n \ r \ narticolarely interesting is the revelation that several artists of Bungie, including the artistic director of the Marathon franchise, Joseph Cross, followed Antireal on social networks for years, although he never interact directly with him. Bungie has published a press release through the developers’ marathon account, which however does not have the same resonance as the main account: \ r \ n \ r ^ n “we immediately investigated the report concerning the unauthorized use of artistic decalities in Marathon and confirmed that a former artist Bungie included them in a sheet of texture that was then used in the Game. “\ r \ n \ r \ nl’Adue of guilt is in any case commendable, but the choice of a secondary channel a little less.