4-Time World First Destiny 2 Champion Banned By Bungie

A renowned Destiny 2 player 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 races are 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 Dungeon.

However, cheating has been a rampant problem in Destiny 2 over 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 altering Destiny 2 files in such ways. This is what happened to Cruz.

Destiny 2's Clan Elysium has 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 by Destiny 2's anti-cheat detector as Cruz accidentally opened the game while the software was running, triggering an automatic ban.

Cruz's ban in Destiny 2 was 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.

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 early Destiny days, and he now has a platform thanks to his achievements in Destiny 2. As such, his frustration has been shared and