Summary
A renownedDestiny 2player named Cruz who has won a total of four World First Raid races has been banned permanently by Bungie following allegations of cheating.Destiny 2’s World First racesare some of the biggest events for the game thanks to their view count on streaming platforms, where fans gather to see several clans trying to become the first ever to beat a new Raid.
However, cheating has been a rampant problem inDestiny 2over the years, especially when it comes to the competitive PvP side of it. There have been and still are many cheaters with impossible stats in game modes like Trials of Osiris, to the point that Bungie added an in-game anti-cheat detector to scan the users' machines for programs capable of alteringDestiny 2files in such ways. This is what happened to Cruz.
Destiny 2’s Clan Elysiumhas won World First races back to back in the past, proving just how game-savvy all of its members are, including Cruz (@thetvCruz on Twitter). Based on Cruz’s account of the events, he likes to play an old RTS game by himself (specifically, Total War: Shogun 2), for which he also uses a cheat engine to generate currency at the start of new games. The program, called ArtMoney, was flagged byDestiny 2’s anti-cheat detector as Cruz accidentally opened the game while the software was running, triggering an automatic ban.
Cruz’sban inDestiny 2was then reviewed by Bungie, as reported by the player with a screenshot of his appeal, but the company confirmed it after investigating the situation. ArtMoney is still considered a memory-editing and debugging software that is automatically marked as a cheat program, as stated by Bungie in the appeal response.
Will Cruz’s Ban Be Lifted In Destiny 2?
As it stands, Bungie is caught between a rock and a hard place in Cruz’s specific case. The four-time World First racer has been playing for 10 years, all the way back since the earlyDestinydays, and he now has a platform thanks to his achievements inDestiny 2. As such, his frustration has been shared and discussed a lot in the past few days, including vocal fellow players from Clan Elysium and otherDestiny 2content creators, making it a controversial topic online.
However, unbanning Cruz would create a problematic precedent due to how ArtMoney is correctly flagged as a cheat engine, even if it was used for a completely different game in this specific case. Manually unflagging this type of software would be dangerous forDestiny 2’s PvP game modesand even every other area of the looter-shooter, as anyone could theoretically tamper with memory-editing by creating infinite Heavy Ammo, for example. Similarly, giving Cruz’s case another pass and unbanning him would give anyone using similar software (even with the specific purpose of alteringDestiny 2data) grounds for an appeal.
No matter Cruz’s dedication toDestiny 2’s Raidsand endgame content, his specific situation would create a lot of problems for Bungie even if his ban ended up being lifted. As such, the most plausible outcome is that Bungie will release a statement about this, highlighting how any cheat software will be flagged, and explaining that Cruz’s ban cannot be lifted even in the face of his achievements and the fact that this was allegedly an accident.
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