Bungie has been accused of plagiarism after releasing a real-life, dart-blasting Nerf version of the Ace of Spades weapon from Destiny 2. The company is facing backlash for allegedly stealing nine-year-old artwork from fan artist Tofu Rabbit instead of creating an original design.
When Bungie and Hasbro decided to create a real-life, dart-blasting Nerf version of one of the most famous Destiny 2 guns, someone got lazy — stealing a fan art ist’s nine-year-old work instead of creating the Ace of Spades from scratch. To Bungie ’s credit, the game company has just announced it will “make sure” to compensate and credit Tofu Rabbit “for their incredible artwork,” after a rapid investigation.
But yesterday, Tofu told The Verge that Bungie had already been “polite and encouraging” in private messages, saying she was hopeful the situation could be resolved soon, since Bungie has dealt with similar issues in the past. Indeed, this isn’t the first or even the second time that Bungie or a contractor has plagiarized Destiny fan art, but it has compensated and credited some previous fan artists after it was called out. The plagiarism wasn’t the only controversy around the new Nerf blaster.
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